Your outline should be around 600 words long. You should share this with two other students and feedback on the profiles of two other students.
How to Structure Your Outline
- Introduction
- Brief role outline
- Skills you already have
- Skills to be developed
- Reference list
Things to Include:
- Definition of Transferable skills with reference to literature, including why transferable skills are useful and how they can help in volunteering role or future employment
- Brief outline of your volunteering role to identify skills that are needed, what you can offer and what you can develop
- State that your existing skills were identified using the Skills Audit form
- Make clear links between a transferable skill and evidence on how it was acquired or how it will be developed
- Use the literature to evidence specific transferable skills for a particular task
- Remember to include a full reference list
- Write in the first person, but use a professional tone
Peer Assessment Criteria
You will be assessed (and should assess on) the following criteria:
- To demonstrate self-awareness of transferable skills you already possess
- To identify transferable skills which will be developed during the project
- The ability to use evidence (examples) and theory on how skills have been/will be developed
When feeding back, make sure that you write something on each of these points – and be constructive! Think of the feedback you would find it useful to receive and let that guide you.