3co03 Assignment Guide June 2025

About this package

The 3CO03 Assignment Guide (June 2025) supports learners preparing the Core Behaviours for People Professionals assignment. It explains an assessment framed around an application for an HR/L&D assistant role at Nuvascare Ltd, a care provider. Learners are asked to complete an initial questionnaire with five responses, drawing on their own experience. The guide focuses on understanding what each question requires and selecting relevant evidence, rather than simply describing professional behaviours in general.

The first two questions address ethical principles, professional values and compliance with relevant regulations and laws. Learners consider how to explain ethical principles and professional values clearly, then connect a personal value to a specific example of behaviour at work. The compliance question asks for two instances from work or study, with precise detail about what the learner did. This makes the relationship between ethical intentions and practical actions central to the assignment.

The guide then turns to respectful and inclusive working. It breaks down the requirement for three separate examples: contributing views and opinions, clarifying problems or issues, and working effectively as part of a team. Guidance on command verbs helps learners distinguish between explaining a concept, specifying an instance and summarising an example. These distinctions matter because each response needs the right balance of context, personal action and detail to address the question.

The final questions cover keeping up to date with the people profession and recording continuing professional development (CPD). Learners are prompted to identify two preferred methods for following professional issues and developments, explain how they use the information gained, and provide a CPD record with at least two activities from the previous two years. Reflections should show learning and its impact on thinking, behaviour or practice. The overview also sets out the assignment’s approximate 2,000-word requirement, with a tolerance of plus or minus 10%, and refers learners to the CIPD word count policy.

Who it’s for

This guide suits learners preparing the June 2025 3CO03 Core Behaviours for People Professionals assignment. It is also useful for those with limited people practice experience who need to draw on other work or study examples.

What’s covered

1. Assignment overview

   Introduces the Nuvascare Ltd HR/L&D assistant application scenario and the five-question initial questionnaire. Sets out the use of personal work or study experience, provides the assignment brief and explains the approximate 2,000-word requirement.

2. Question 1.1: Ethical principles and professional values

   Explains the requirement to describe ethical principles and professional values clearly. Learners must also provide a contextualised example showing how one of their values informed their behaviour at work.

3. Question 1.2: Compliance with regulations and laws

   Focuses on selecting two personal examples of compliance with relevant regulations and laws in work or study. The guidance emphasises precise descriptions of what the learner did and how this relates to ethics and professional practice.

4. Question 2.1: Respectful and inclusive working

   Breaks down the requirement for three examples covering contributions to discussions, clarification of problems or issues, and effective teamwork. Explains how to summarise each situation clearly while showing the learner’s own behaviour.

5. Question 2.2: Keeping up to date with the people profession

   Guides learners in presenting two preferred methods for keeping up to date with professional issues and developments. Responses need to explain why the methods are useful and how the information gained is put into practice.

6. Question 2.3: Recording and reflecting on CPD

   Sets out the requirement for a CPD record containing at least two development activities undertaken within the previous two years. Each activity needs a reflection on its impact, such as learning gained or changes to thinking, behaviour or practice; suggested formats include a structured table or records from CIPD ‘My CPD’.

Learning outcomes

By completing this package, learners can:

• Interpret the five assessment questions in the June 2025 3CO03 assignment and identify the evidence each requires.
• Explain ethical principles and professional values, linking a personal value to behaviour at work.
• Select and describe two examples of compliance with relevant regulations and laws from work or study.
• Summarise personal examples of contributing views, clarifying issues and working effectively within a team.
• Describe two methods for keeping up to date with the people profession and explain how the information gained is used.
• Prepare a CPD record with at least two recent development activities and reflections on their impact.

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