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Business Graduate Portfolio

Business Graduate Folio Assignment: My Career in the Age of Agents

Learning Outcome 1: Curate your personal, reflective BBusePortfolio documenting achievement of program learning outcomes.

Learning Outcome 2: Critically reflect on digital artefacts and evidence collected over your degree to demonstrate development of business knowledge, skills and capabilities.

Learning Outcome 3: Identify transferable skills from BBus learning and relate them to your personal, educational and career development.

Overview

Before you can plan a career, you need to understand yourself. This assessment takes you through four self-discovery tools, asks you to use AI to synthesise what those tools reveal about you, and then invites you to reflect critically on the result - including through the lens of Chaos Theory of Careers and the world of work mapped by the Microsoft Work Trend Index 2026.

The assessment has three parts:
• Part A: Complete four self-assessment tools and capture your results
• Part B: Use an AI tool to synthesise your results into a career profile (screenshot only, no word count)
• Part C: Write a 1,200-word reflective report in two sections: responding to the AI, then building your career strategy

This assessment is the foundation for everything that follows in this course. The clearer your self-knowledge here, the sharper your career analysis will be in Assessments 2 and 3.

Part A: Complete the Four Self-Assessment Tools

Evidence: Screenshots only, no word count

Work through each tool in order. All four are accessible via the course Canvas page. Capture your results from each tool as directed below. These four pieces of evidence form Appendix A of your submission and do not count toward the word limit.

# Tool What you are exploring What to capture
1 SparkPath Challenge Cards What kinds of problems and challenges energise you? Your selected 3 challenge cards or results summary
2 VIA Character Strengths What are your top character strengths? Your top 3 strengths from the results page
3 Schwartz Values Survey (PVQ) What values drive your decisions? Your values profile or priority ranking
4 CareerEDGE+ (via RMIT Career Centre) How employable are you, and where are your skill strengths and gaps? Your CareerEDGE+ wheel or personalised report summary. Log in at rmit.careercentre.me/pulse using your student details.

Take your time with each tool. The quality of your reflection in Part C depends entirely on how honestly and carefully you engage here.

Part B: AI Synthesis

Evidence: Screenshot only, no word count

Once you have completed all four tools, open an AI tool of your choice (such as Val, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, or Copilot) and paste in a summary of your results using the prompt below. You may adapt the prompt, but make sure you include results from all four tools.

Suggested Prompt

I have just completed four self-assessment tools. Please synthesise the results and suggest careers that might suit me. My SparkPath challenge cards suggest I am drawn to: [top 3]. My top VIA Character Strengths are: [your top 3]. My Schwartz Values profile shows I prioritise: [your top values]. My CareerEDGE+ results show I am strongest in [your high-scoring areas] and have gaps in [your lower-scoring areas]. Please:
• Give me a summary of who I appear to be as a professional
• Suggest three to five careers or professional directions that might suit me
• Identify anything contradictory or interesting across my results: where do my four tools point in different directions, or converge unexpectedly?
• For each career you suggest, briefly note how exposed that role is to agentic AI, where AI agents are taking on multi-step execution tasks. What would remain distinctly human in that role?

Take a screenshot of the full AI exchange (your prompt and the AI's full response). This forms Appendix B and does not count toward the word limit.

Part C: Reflective Report

1,200 words | Section 1: ~700 words | Section 2: ~500 words

Your reflective report has two sections.

Section 1: Responding to the AI (~700 words)

Write a reflection on the AI's synthesis and career suggestions, addressing all of the following:
• What the AI said: Briefly summarise the professional profile and career directions it suggested (two to three sentences only; the full output is in your appendix)
• Where you agree: Which parts feel accurate, and why? Connect your agreement back to specific tool results
• Where you disagree: What has the AI missed, misrepresented, or failed to capture about you?
• What surprised you: A strength you had not considered, a career you had never thought of, or a contradiction you had not noticed
• Intersection: Where do your four tools intersect? Do your SparkPath challenges, VIA strengths, Schwartz values, and CareerEdge Skills all point in the same direction, or do they pull against each other? What does that convergence or tension tell you about yourself? Did the AI pick this up, or miss it?

Section 2: Your Career Strategy (~500 words)

This section asks you to build two career directions from your self-assessment results, test them against the future of work, and apply Chaos Theory of Careers as your analytical lens.

Task 2A: Path A and Path B (~250 words)

Propose two distinct career directions that represent meaningfully different choices. At least one should connect to your SparkPath challenge cards. The second can connect to SparkPath or come from somewhere else entirely - a subject, a job you already have, a direction you've been considering, or something the AI surfaced that surprised you. What matters is that the two paths are genuinely different from each other.

For EACH path, address all of the following:
• The role or sector you are targeting and what draws you to it
• How your top VIA strengths and Schwartz values support (or complicate) this path
• Using the Microsoft 2026 report, how is agentic AI changing this role, and what would remain distinctly human in it?
• How your BBus degree has developed each of these capabilities so far, with reference to specific subjects, majors, minors, or experiences

Close this task by applying Chaos Theory of Careers (Pryor & Bright) as your analytical lens:
• Core question: Apply it to your two paths by asking: Why is my career so unpredictable? Where do you see complexity, non-linearity, or chance in your career thinking so far? What small changes or unexpected events have already shaped your direction? Which of your two paths gives you more room to navigate uncertainty, and why?

Task 2B: RMIT Graduate Capabilities and your BBus journey (~250 words)

Review the six RMIT Capabilities at RMIT Graduate Capabilities (Links to an external site). Based on your two chosen career paths and what your self-assessment results reveal about you, identify the two capabilities most critical to your success in that direction.

Explain:
• Why these two capabilities matter specifically for your chosen paths, not just in general, but for the challenge you are trying to solve
• What in your BBus journey so far suggests you are developing these capabilities, with reference to specific subjects, majors, minors or experiences
• What gap remains: what would you still need to develop, and how?

Format: 1200 words (+ or - 10%). State word count for Part C only. Appendices are excluded.

Referencing: APA 7th. Cite reports used. Acknowledge AI tools by name and date accessed.