MLL338 - Assessment - Pre-Placement Assessment PDF

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MLL338 Legal Professional Practice Trimester 2, 2020

Assessment 1: Pre-Placement Task DUE DATE AND TIME: PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: WORD COUNT:

Within 7 days of commencing your placement. 20% 1000 words (-/+ 10%). This does not include the words in this template.

Student name: Student ID number: Host organisation name: Word count:

Assessment Feedback: Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback within 15 working days following submission.

Description / Requirements Assessment Task 1 requires you to submit detailed answers to the questions below. This assessment requires you to undertake individual research, being sure to cite sources (where appropriate) in compliance with the AGLC. Please note, this is an individual assessment.

Submission Instructions Assessment Task 1 is within 7 days of commencing your placement. You must keep a backup copy of every assignment you submit, until the marked assignment has been returned to you. In the unlikely event that one of your assignments is misplaced, you will need to submit your backup copy. Any work you submit may be checked by electronic or other means for the purposes of detecting collusion and/or plagiarism.

When you are required to submit an assignment through your CloudDeakin unit site, you will receive an email to your Deakin email address confirming that it has been submitted. You should check that you can see your assignment in the Submissions view of the Assignment dropbox folder after upload, and check for, and keep, the email receipt for the submission.

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Submission deadlines are based on the official start and end dates of your placement. These are taken from the placement details agreed with the Faculty of Business and Law, Work Integrated Learning (WIL) team prior to the start of your placement. o If you need to change your placements dates during the placement, it is your responsibility to ensure that these dates are updated prior to the commencement of any placement changes. To update your placement dates, your host or supervisor must email the WIL Professional team ( [email protected]) with the updated placement details prior to commencement of any placement changes. o Please note that late penalties will be applied to all late submissions based on the agreed upon submission point due dates and times (as held by the WIL team). Changes to placement and submission dates cannot be applied retrospectively, i.e. if the submission point due date and time have passed late penalties will apply. It is important that you plan and coordinate your placement.

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Penalties for late submission: The following marking penalties will apply if you submit an assessment task after the due date without an approved extension: 5% will be deducted from available marks for each day up to five days, and work that is submitted more than five days after the due date will not be marked. You will receive 0% for the task. 'Day' means working day for paper submissions and calendar day for electronic submissions. The Unit Chair may refuse to accept a late submission where it is unreasonable or impracticable to assess the task after the due date. For more information about academic misconduct, special consideration, extensions, and assessment feedback, please refer to the document Your rights and responsibilities as a student in this Unit in the first folder next to the Unit Guide of the Resources area in the CloudDeakin unit site. Plagiarism and collusion - Plagiarism occurs when a student passes off as the student’s own work, or copies without acknowledgement as to its authorship, the work of any other person. This can include self-plagiarism, where students resubmit prior work without permission of the unit chair. Collusion occurs when a student obtains the agreement of another person for a fraudulent purpose with the intent of obtaining an advantage in submitting an assignment or other work. Work submitted may be reproduced and/or communicated for the purpose of detecting plagiarism and collusion. Building evidence of your experiences, skills and knowledge (Portfolio) - Building a portfolio that evidences your skills, knowledge and experience will provide you with a valuable tool to help you prepare for interviews and to showcase to potential employers. There are a number of tools that you can use to build a portfolio. You are provided with cloud space through OneDrive, or through the Portfolio tool in the Cloud Unit Site, but you can use any storage repository system that you like. Remember that a Portfolio is YOUR tool. You should Page 2 of 6

be able to store your assessment work, reflections, achievements and artefacts in YOUR Portfolio. Once you have completed this assessment piece, add it to your personal Portfolio to use and showcase your learning later, when applying for jobs, or further studies. Curate your work by adding meaningful tags to your artefacts that describe what the artefact represents.

Declaration I certify that the following work is entirely my own, except where material quoted or paraphrased is acknowledged in the text. I also certify that it has not been submitted for assessment in any other unit or course. SIGNED:

DATE:

An assignment will not be accepted for assessment if the declaration appearing above has not been signed by the author. Electronic signatures are acceptable. If you are unable to sign this form, please contact the Unit Chair to discuss the issues that prevent you from doing so. You are advised to retain a copy of your work until the original has been assessed and your mark received.

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Complete the tasks here, adding additional pages as required. Provide clear headings for each task and address the additional requirements in the Appendix below.

Task 1

Research your host organisation and outline your expectations for this placement (6 marks)

Your response should include (but is not limited to):

 Provide an overview of your host organisation (including what they do, what is their mission, where they are based, staffing profile, industry relevance).

 If applicable, describe the organisational unit/department hosting you (the ‘group’ within the organisation you will be working with if known now). 

A discussion of the area(s) of law that the organization practices

 Describe the range of activities you expect to be involved in during your internship.  How do you feel about the range of activities you are to undertake? 

What will you do to prepare for your first day?

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How do you plan to make the most of your placement?

Task 2

Research employer requirements for your ideal graduate position and evaluate opportunities for further development. (6 marks)

Your response should include (but is not limited to) coverage of: 

Comment on the relevance of the internship to your degree (avoiding generalisations)

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A description of your career objective indicating clearly what sort of work you want after you graduate.

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Provide two relevant (current) job advertisements which you would consider applying for if you were about to graduate. You should include a copy of the job advertisements as an appendix to this assignment (appendix is not included in your word count).

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In relation to the responsibilities to be undertaken what knowledge, skills and attributes are these employers looking for?

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Reflect on your current level of each of these skills, attributes and knowledge.

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Identify where your potential gaps may be. Page 5 of 6

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Specifically discuss how this placement may enable you to work on closing these gaps.

Task 3

What are your aspirations and objectives for this internship? (8 marks)

Your response should include (but is not limited to): 

Define in your own words the terms: aspirations, objectives.

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Discuss how you think this placement will align with your future career goals and the skills you are hoping to develop.

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How may this placement help you improve your employability? You may consider such things as: developing legal skills, experience in a specific area of substantive law, etc.

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What benefits do you think you offer your host organisation?

Develop and provide indicators of success: 

from the perspective of the student; and

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what you expect would be the host’s perspective

Appendix Include supporting information here.

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