1. Understand the recruitment and selection process and their implications relevant to their career
2. Demonstrate the ability to identify strengths and areas for development
3. Plan and manage their personal development and career path
4. Develop transferable skills including problem solving, information management and retrieval skills, as well as presentation and communication skills relevant and appropriate to a range of audiences
5. Demonstrate core technical skills appropriate to level 5 (a good understanding of privilege escalation; ability to use common tools and techniques for website auditing and reconnaissance to gather information about vulnerabilities; ability to apply penetration testing procedures to exploit vulnerable systems)

Task and Mark distribution:
Assignment: Produce a report containing the following sections/content:
Title: 5069 Cyber Security Careers Report
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Section 1 Career planning – Personal Development plan (75% of overall mark)
Expected Content: Create a credible career plan based on your current studies and potential future studies. Include a review of others from industry and science who have studied similar degree programmes, where they are today, how they got there etc. Use a planning tool e.g. a chart.

Section 2 Skills reflection (25% of overall mark)
Expected Content: At the beginning of this module you carried out a personal skills reflection. Additionally, you carried out a reflection in your skills module in Level 4. Now that you have had a few more weeks of study in this module and other modules in your course perform another skills reflection and compare your responses against your previous reflections. . Comment critically on your findings and present a reasonable action plan based upon your findings.