Graduate Development Strategy (GDS)

Graduate Development Strategy

Instructions

Your Graduate Development Strategy (GDS) represents a clear but flexible plan that defines your professional development goals and guides your professional future direction. In simple terms, you will draw on your learnings from this unit, and the skills you have developed in your undergraduate studies, in order to create a personal strategy on how to achieve your career goal that you have identified in the unit

You will integrate Thomlinson’s Graduate Capital in the reflection of your learned experiences at Monash and key takeaways from BEX3500, and reflect on how you have developed the discipline specific skills.

Your GDS will have the following important aspects:

• Identification of your vision by referring to your Individual Professional Purpose, and reflecting on your own strengths and weaknesses that relate to your professional development goals.
• A critical reflection of your ‘most significant change’ and how this has impacted your development, as well as articulation of strategies for continuous improvement based on your experience.
• Analysis of both your team and individual performance in the project, and the extent to which you have demonstrated learning growth as a result of the experience.
• Identification of your end goals, with specific reference the resources you may require in order to overcome predicted challenges and appropriate deadlines that you have set.

While you will use reflective writing skills, you may present your GDS in the way that you feel clearly outlines your individual professional future direction.

The word limit for your GDS is 2000 (+/- 10%)