This is an individual, oral presentation, with supporting PowerPoint slides, followed by a viva voce-style question and answer sessions led by your campus tutor. This presentation takes place early in the term for two main reasons: first, it requires you to actively engage with available materials about your host company and internship role early on, which allows you to hit the ground running and make the most of your time during the internship. Second, it facilitates early engagement with the basics you need for the assessable, for-credit components of BUSN20020.

To prepare for this presentation, you are required to:

1. Research publicly available information about your host company (including, but not limited to: its history, size and structure; mission and vision; products/services on offer; the industry/industries and market(s) it operates in; contemporary challenges and opportunities arising from its environment);
2. Reflect on your personal thoughts about starting and completing the first few of weeks of your internship (including, but not limited to: reflections on your interview experience in relation to your expectations for the internship; thoughts about your internship readiness; your personal learning goals; anticipated challenges and concerns; if you have started your internship already, any differences between your anticipation and reality); and
3. Review all information you have already received about the host and your internship (including, but not limited to: your internship agreement; the internship orientation materials from the pre-term orientation session).

You are required to present the main results of your research, reflection, and review of the above three elements in the form of a formal and professional in-class presentation. Unless there are evidenced extenuating circumstances, the presentations will take place face-to-face on campus, during the timetabled workshop of week 2.

Please note: most students start their internship on Monday of week 2, although some students may have started in week 1 or week 3. Irrespective of the start date, the presentation will take place as scheduled and the content will be assessed based on students’ start date and publicly available information (e.g. students who present before they have started their internship will not be expected to reflect on the reality of being in the host company; the level of detail required about the host company will depend on amount of publicly available information about individual hosts).

The length of the presentation will be 10-15 minutes. You should use a maximum of 10-15 content slides (title slide, references, and other optional non-content slides may be added to these 10-15 content slides). The slides must be provided via USB stick to your tutor on the day of the presentation, and submitted to Moodle following the presentation. Slides must be submitted as presented – post-presentation changes to slides are not permitted. Please note that the 3-day grace period does not apply to this assessment item.

Following the presentation, your tutor will lead a viva voce-style question and answer session. The questions can focus on any aspect of your presentation, as well as any aspect of the pre-term orientation materials provided to you.

All publicly available material about the host company must be referenced on the respective slide and in an APA-formatted reference list at the end of the slides. If you make reference to specific documents (e.g. your internship agreement), please also clearly outline and/or reference this if appropriate. Please note: journal article references should not be used in this assignment!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Statement: This assessment requires students to adhere to the guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence tools as specified in the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS). Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding the use of AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity. For this assessment, you may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas. 

Your assignment will be marked on the following criteria; detailed marking rubrics are available in Moodle:

1. Overview of host company and environment (30%)
2. Overview of and reflections on internship role (20%)
3. Reflections on/personal thoughts about internship readiness and early internship week(s) (20%)
4. Professional presentation delivery (10%)
5. Depth of understanding demonstrated during viva voce (20%)

Late submission and academic misconduct penalties will be applied in accordance with the university policies.

At the beginning of Week 11, you will be required to submit two visually appealing posters; the preferred format is PowerPoint (PPT) printable in A3 (A3 PPT slides in landscape and portrait will be available in Moodle, on which you can create your posters).

One poster will detail your three most prominent learnings about your cognate field of study* that you have achieved during your internship WITH links to specific units and contents/theories studied in your cognate field (if you make reference to specific concepts or theories, these require a reference). This may refer to the most surprising learnings, your biggest cognate projects/achievements, some learnings that contradict your theoretical knowledge, etc. The second poster will detail your three most prominent learnings about yourself from completing the internship. This may refer to learnings about your career, learnings about your personality or work preferences, learnings about your skills, etc. (this poster does not require referencing). One of the posters must include a photograph of yourself at the workplace. The posters should be self-explanatory but visually appealing, i.e. limited text but use of appropriate visualisations, colours, imagery, and layout.

During the timetabled workshop on Friday of week 11, you will attend an on-campus poster symposium. The campus team will ensure your posters are displayed in the classroom. You will be asked to present your poster contents to the attendees in a short presentation (approximately 6-12 minutes, depending on student numbers). Following that, you will stand/sit next to your poster for the remainder of the class time, while attendees will circulate and engage with students about their internships. The symposium will be open to all staff and students, as well as external parties (which may include your host supervisors). It is aimed to be a celebration of your internship and an opportunity for you to self-promote, similar to a job interview in which you would have to talk about your tasks, achievements, learnings, reflections, and so on. All attendees can ask you questions and you should answer those ethically and professionally. Marks will be allocated to your posters, short presentation AND your responses to your tutor’s questions during the remainder of the symposium time.

Please note: while the poster contents, presentations, and poster symposium discussions with attendees are opportunities for reflection, they are not an opportunity for complaints or feedback on the internship or host company; other avenues exist for this. Once the posters have been submitted, your tutor will moderate the content and – if required – may ask you to make some adjustments should it be deemed unsuitable for the purpose of this event.

*The cognate field of study is accounting/finance for MPA students, and marketing, HRM, or management for MME, MBM, and MBA (Global) students.

Due to the nature of this assessment item, the 3-day grace period for submission of posters does not apply to this assessment. The poster symposium will take place on campus. Only during exceptional, evidenced circumstances, can students request their posters to be presented and discussed online. Please note that it is your responsibility to be available for this workshop – it is during term time, and the timetable is available well ahead of the start of term. Participation at the symposium is a pass-fail activity, i.e. non-attendance without appropriate evidence will result in a mark of zero, which may well result in a fail grade for the unit.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Statement: This assessment requires students to adhere to the guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence tools as specified in the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS). Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding the use of AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity. For this assessment, you may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas. 

Your assignment will be marked on the following criteria; detailed marking rubrics are available in Moodle:

1. Depth of Discipline Learning & Linkage to Curriculum evidenced in presentation and discussion (30%)
2. Personal & Professional Reflection (Self-Learnings) evidenced in presentation and discussion (30%)
3. Poster Design (15%)
4. Oral Presentation skills (15%)
5. Professionalism & Ethics in Content and Conduct (10%)

Late submission and academic misconduct penalties will be applied in accordance with the university policies.

This is an individual assessment, which takes the form of a portfolio. There are two submission points during the term: Part A of the portfolio is due at the end of Week 6, while Part B is due at the end of Week 12. Part A accounts for 40% of assessment 3 and it purely contains artefacts you must curate yourself. Part B accounts for 60% of assessment 3 and it contains artefacts you must curate (40% of assessment 3) and the final evaluation from your host company (20% of assessment 3). The host evaluation is provided to CQUniversity through the SONIA internship system – you need to fill in SONIA forms as and when required throughout the term, but you do not have to submit the final evaluation yourself.

The purpose of the portfolio is threefold:

1. To deepen your understanding of the operations of your host company in general;
2. To apply the cognate knowledge and skills from your Masters to your host company’s activities; and
3. To reflect upon yourself and your career development resulting from the internship.

Both parts of the portfolio require you to compile a range of individual artefacts (e.g. updated resume with internship information; updated LinkedIn provide with internship information; brief analysis of the host company’s approach to a cognate issue etc.) into two separate Word-document portfolio templates (available in Moodle). A list of acceptable artefacts is available in Moodle and you must ensure that the required artefacts are included in your portfolio - please note that some of the artefacts on the list are compulsory for all students, while the remaining artefacts are to be considered a pool, from which you need to choose artefacts relevant to you, your career aspirations, and/or your host company.

The portfolio can contain multimedia artefacts (e.g. screenshots of LinkedIn page) but any text-based documents you create yourself (e.g. reflective statements, resume) need to be provided in Word format within the portfolio – screenshots of these documents are not permissible. Please also note that access to any hyperlinks required for artefacts is your responsibility – any broken links or inaccessible artefacts will not be able to attract marks. Some artefacts require referencing (this information is in the list of artefacts) - if that is the case, you should provide in-text referencing in the artefact and a reference list after the relevant artefact (this may mean your portfolio contains multiple small reference lists, each following the artefact it refers to). Most artefacts will have their own word count (also provided in the list of artefacts); there is, however, no word or page limit for the portfolio itself.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Statement: This assessment requires students to adhere to the guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence tools as specified in the Artificial Intelligence Assessment Scale (AIAS). Any misuse or lack of disclosure regarding the use of AI tools will be considered a breach of academic integrity. For this assessment, you may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas. 

Your assignment will be marked on the following criteria; detailed marking rubrics are available in Moodle:

Part A - Curated Artefacts (40%)

• Understanding of Host Company Structure (7%)
• Application of Cognate Knowledge (7%)
• Critical Reflection on Incident (7%)
• Career Development Artefact (7%)
• Elective Artefact (7%)
• Professional Presentation and Accuracy of Referencing (5%)

Part B: Curated Artefacts + Host Evaluation 

• Understanding of Host Company Culture (7%)
• Advanced Application of Cognate Knowledge (7%)
• Advanced Reflection on an Incident (7%)
• Career Development Artefact (7%)
• Elective Artefact (7%)
• Professional Presentation and Accuracy of Referencing (5%)
• Host Evaluation (20%)

Late submission and academic misconduct penalties will be applied in accordance with the university policies.