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Once you have written your Reflective Statement, you can use this activity to check in during your employability development experience. This might be during a placement, a year abroad, an internship, or after a few weeks of writing your statement. This will help you evaluate the wants, needs, priorities, and expectations you set out at the beginning of your experience and see how your experience, so far, matches your reflective statement.
Checking-in With Your Reflective Statement
Checking-in With Your Reflective Statement
Checking-in with your reflective statement is an opportunity for you to reflect on exactly how your wants, needs, priorities, and expectations have matched or adapted during your experience. Evaluating this will allow you to create a new reflective statement that will take into account what you have experienced so far. Re-consider the questions below, answer the reflection questions, and use your answers to write a new reflective statement.
Questions you answered before your experience:
Your Wants
Your Wants
What experiences do you want to have during your experience?
Which skills do you want to learn?
Which skills do you want to develop?
How do you want to feel during your experience?
How do you want to feel after your experience?
How do you want to describe this experience once you have finished?
Your Needs
Your Needs
What do you need from your host during your experience?
Do you have any accommodations/reasonable adjustments you need to ask for?
Are there skills/experiences you need to learn during your experience?
Are there any goals you need to achieve during your experience?
Your Priorities
Your Priorities
What are the most important skills you want to learn?
What skills are you going to focus on developing during your experience?
Is there an experience you will aim to have?
What are your goals for this experience?
Which Sheffield Graduate Attributes do you want to feel more confident with?
Your Expectations
Your Expectations
How do you expect to feel during this experience?
What do you expect your role to be during this experience?
Which goals do you think you are going to achieve?
Which skills do you think you will use the most?
How will you communicate if you need help/have a question?
How will this experience develop my employability?
Reflection questions:
Reflection questions:
Has anything changed about what you want from your experience? Why have/haven't your wants changed?
Have your needs been met so far? If not, how can you address this with your host?
Have your needs changed based on your experience? Why have/haven't your needs changed?
Are you sticking to the goals you set out before your experience? Why have/haven't you stuck to these goals?
Have your priorities changed during your experience? Why have/haven't your priorities changed?
Have your expectations been met so far?
What do you expect the rest of your experience to include?
Do you feel confident in what your role is?
Who do you go to to ask questions?
How has your employability been developed so far?
Now, write a summary of your answers into a new reflective statement - keep your original reflective statement, as this version is useful to show how your experience has shaped your development.
You can use the How to Reflect activity to help with your thinking and to reflect on why these things might be your wants, needs, priorities, and expectations.
You can then use the Reflective Statement Evaluation activitiy to contunyue make the most out of your statement.
By completing this activity, you will have used these SGAs:
Growth Mindset
Positive Mindset
Defining Purpose
Self-awareness
Critical Thinking
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