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Once you have completed your employability development experience, you can evaluate your reflective statements (the one you wrote before your experience and one you wrote during your experience); you can use this activity to explore how you have developed during your experience. Answer the reflective questions while you look back over both versions of your reflective statements.
Evaluating Your Reflective Statement
Evaluating Your Reflective Statement
Evaluating your reflective statements is an opportunity for you to reflect on exactly how your wants, needs, priorities, and expectations have matched or adapted during your experience. You can now think about what you have learnt from your experience and use the reflective models to help you make the most out of your experience as part of your employability journey. Answer the evaluative questions about each of your statements, follow one of the reflective models to explore your experience, and use the STAR technique to write about one of the experiences you had during your time.
Read through each version of your Reflective Statements and answer these questions:
Read through each version of your Reflective Statements and answer these questions:
Did anything change about what you wanted from your experience? Why did/didn't your wants change?
Were your needs met? If not, how did you address this with your host?
Did your needs change based on your experience? Why did/didn't your needs change?
Did you stick to the goals you set out before your experience? Why did/didn't you stick to these goals?
Did your priorities change during your experience? Why did/didn't your priorities change?
Were your expectations met?
How do you expect your experience to impact your degree?
Did you feel confident in what your role was?
Who did you go to to ask questions?
How has your employability been developed by your experience?
Which skills did you use the most?
Did you use/develop any skills that surprised you?
Which experience did you enjoy the most?
Which experience did you enjoy the least?
How would you describe your experience?
Which part of your experience are you most proud of?
What aspects of your experience would you want to replicate in future work?
Do you have any regrets or opportunities you wished you took advantage of?
Which Sheffield Graduate Attributes do you feel confident with now?
What can you learn from this experience?
Use one of these reflective models to reflect on a specific moment during your experience:
Use one of these reflective models to reflect on a specific moment during your experience:
Gibbs Reflective Learning Cycle
What? So What? Now What?
Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle
You can use the How to Reflect activity to find details on how to use each model and find a link to a document for each model.
Write a STAR evaluation about a specific experience:
Write a STAR evaluation about a specific experience:
Using the STAR technique, you can write a clear evaluation of an experience you had. You can use the STAR Guide for guidance and an example answer.
You can add this to your 'My development experience' on your mySkills profile.
By completing this activity, you will have used these SGAs:
Growth Mindset
Positive Mindset
Defining Purpose
Self-awareness
Adaptable
Communication
Integrity
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
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