Work Placement

Portfolio of Evidence (1,000 words)

Year: 2020--2021

Student ID: Student Name:

Programme: BA (Hons) in Business & Management with Module: BMM4982 ETHICS, SOCIETY AND EMPLOYABILITY
Foundation Year in Business ¦ Level 4 (Year1) (BMM4982)

Background & A brief introduction to the

Reflection context of your placement
should be provided.

(e.g., how you found the

placement, steps taken, your
role, the organisation, and the
industry etc)

Placement Details should be provided

Preparation about the elements of the
placement preparation
programme which you
engaged with.

(here you can refer to the

lectures, seminars or guest
sessions which helped you to
learn more about placements,
skills required, graduate jobs

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Placement completion
Details should be provided about, tasks, challenges, key moments and experiences throughout the duration of your placement
Task No. & Task Task Objective/s Own Reflection What did you learn Emerging target/s
Week No. How the task was achieved, and what resources /
support was used to achieve the task
Example I was assigned a task I was informed by my line Initially, I was given a briefing on the task by my line manger I learnt how to compare Learn more about the
Task 0 / to carry out research manager that the objective on the product that they wanted to launch, the proposed different products. use of MS Word for
on a new product of this task was to find out if product features are confidential and are not to be disclosed such tasks.
Week 0 idea which was very there are any existing on the public domain yet. I also learnt the use of MS
exciting. products in the market with Word for comparison Look for existing
the same features or not My first step was to find out all the features that our purposes. products and their
and prepare a comparison. proposed product would have, this enabled me to know positioning
more about the product idea and then to research in an I learnt the importance of
appropriate manner. storing research
information.
I then created a table in a comparison matrix format and
listed all the features that our product had. I learnt how to present
complex data in a user-
Then I began my research and started listing down the friendly way.
existing product names at the top of the matrix and then
ticked or crossed the features that other products had or did
not have.

I also took some rough notes and the links to the existing
product websites.

Resources used:
I used various resources such as a computer, Internet, MS
Word, Line Manager guidelines.

The line manager was constantly observing and supporting

me throughout the task.

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