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First time studying since school & I'm completely lost

Marie

I am studying the level 5 diploma & attended my first workshop 5RST at the end of May; since then Ive been swallowed in the busy world of work, children & life. My first assignment is due to be submitted on 5th July & I havent even started.  Honestly, I think Ive put it off because Im scared. I left school well over 20 years ago & never attended uni or anything so quite simply put I have no idea where to start. I dont know how to write an assignment or reference (although I think the latter isnt really an issue) It just feels like an absolute mine field.  Having worked at HR BP & HRM levels for over 8 years its not that I dont understand the content its just working out how to put it all into the correct context. My career to date has been one of a very hands on generalist & analysis of data etc has been restricted to internal requirements so comparing labour trend markets right now just fries my brain. 

Is there anyone who can offer some guidance, tips, tricks, advice or a miracle??

Thanks in advance
Marie 

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  • Hi Marie
    Sorry to hear this but please do not beat yourself up! You are not alone, what you are going through is very common. My advice to you is:
    1 Contact your centre and talk to your advisor
    2 Take a deep breath and look at the assessment criteria for the unit
    3 Do little things like - create a template document for all your reports. Think about the presentation your name, the unit title, date submitted, word count.
    4 Then use the learning outcomes to structure the report with the learning outcome being a section heading then the assessment criteria being a sub heading - for example
    Learning Outcome 3 Understand how to maximize employee retention
    3.1 Explain why people choose to leave or remain employed by organisations and the costs associated with dysfunctional employee turnover.
    3.2 Assess the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to the retention of talent.

    So my real advice is to take a deep breath and break down this elephant into smaller chunks.

    Good luck!
  • in reply to Maureen Scholefield
    Hi.
    I have just started my level 5 - and doing this online. I have never studied and totally lost with the 1st assessment and its 3000 words :-(

    I was wondering if you can get private tutoring? just to get me started?
  • in reply to Nicola
    It seems you don't get as much support online - do you have any kind of Tutor, Forum or similar?
    Are you stand alone or in a small HR team? As I had really good support from the rest of my (large) HR team and had a designated mentor.
  • in reply to Clare
    Hi
    I have a few people in the team who have done Level 5, but don't like to ask too much with it being my 1st assessment done want them to think i'm cheating my asking them to help me. plus we are a new team and only been working together for 5 months. the online tutor is good, forums are good just feel like i need someone in person the explain everything and what is expected from the answers, and how to format things and how to reference stuff. :-( At the minute i'm just doing the 1st activity on the CIPD Map and struggling already - Do i pull the information from the map and reference it, or do I actually have write my owns words.

    If anyone knows of anyone in manchester area that offer tutoring, I would like to know more :-)
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  • in reply to Clare
    Hi
    I have a few people in the team who have done Level 5, but don't like to ask too much with it being my 1st assessment done want them to think i'm cheating my asking them to help me. plus we are a new team and only been working together for 5 months. the online tutor is good, forums are good just feel like i need someone in person the explain everything and what is expected from the answers, and how to format things and how to reference stuff. :-( At the minute i'm just doing the 1st activity on the CIPD Map and struggling already - Do i pull the information from the map and reference it, or do I actually have write my owns words.

    If anyone knows of anyone in manchester area that offer tutoring, I would like to know more :-)
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  • in reply to Nicola
    I see. It's not necessarily cheating . I found my team really helpful in explaining it and applying it in the context of the workplace - pointers of examples to evidence in my assignment etc. So more of a steer and guidance than actually doing it for me.
    I found the same - whilst Coach/Assessor was good I needed to understand it in the context of my own workplace.
    I found the CIPD student section really useful for referencing guides etc. Even though I had completed a degree it was over 20 years ago and in quite a different subject.
    I'm not very good at putting things in my own words and too reliant on texts etc. However you should be able to reference what you are writing about.