1. Assignment Brief
Qualification
HND
Unit number and title
Unit 13 Personal & Professional Development
Start Date
Deadline
Assessor name
Marc Gallagher
Assignment Title
Taking responsibility for one’s personal and professional development
The purpose of this assignment is to: determine if (you) the learner can demonstrate
an ability to take responsibility for your own personal and professional development.
Scenario:Following a second apparently successful second job interview at
NatTrainSolns (NTS) a small but influential management training consultancy
agency based in City West Industrial Park, Dublin you have been advised by the
HRM chief Tony Mullins that in order, finally, to qualify for the post that is be
accepted and hired, you must now independently successfully complete four tasks:
2.1 evaluate your current skills and competencies against professional standards
and organisational objectives, 2.2 identify your own development needs and the
activities to meet them, 2.3 identify development opportunities to meet current and
future defined needs and 2.4 devise a personal and professional plan based on
identified needs.
NatTrainSolns (NTS) is of the firm opinion that upon your having successfully
completed these four tasks you will have clearly and definitively demonstrated the
knowledge and skills set requirements ultimately demanded by the job. Tony Mullins
has reminded you that this particular undertaking is, above all, an academic and
scholarly exercise and that your responses to the tasks oulined above must be fully
supported academically with scholarly references to relevant S-ML/S-DL theory,
models, and current research published by academics, practitioners and authors.
It is expected that the length of your report should be no longer than 1300 words and
that it should contain in addition an introduction, a conclusion, a reference section
and finally if required an appendix section in which you might include any extra
material (completed work, etc.)
Task 2.1: evaluate your current skills and competencies against professional
standards and organisational objectives
Task 2.2: identify your own development needs and the activities to meet them

2. Task 2.3: identify development opportunities to meet current and future defined needs
Task 2.4: devise a personal and professional plan based on identified needs.
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Assessor
Marc Gallagher
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