The essay is reflective but the delivery must be academic and professional - avoid the temptation to reduce 'reflection' to a conversation. A portfolio which contains: Introduction - Your graduate destination - What? Why? etc. Seek guidance to ensure it is a graduate level role. If you are looking at post graduate vocational training - such as teacher training, social work - then you need to look for the 'qualified role' and look at the steps to the qualified role. If you want to be a Social worker - what client group? If you want to be a nurse? Which area of nursing? Role analysis -NOT a history of the job role but an awareness of the current issues facing professionals in the role - for example police and child trafficking, Education and special needs, Social care and an aging population etc A current job description and person specification of your ideal job - Appendix 1 DO NOT UPLOAD A LINK AS THE JOB MAY HAVE GONE BY THE TIME OF SUBMISSION) Reflection - what you already have - skills and experience and what you will need to get in order to meet the person specification. Having identified any gaps