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MGMT29013 Professional Practice and Career Development
Professional Practice and Career Development
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General Information

Overview

This unit supports you in your preparation for your professional life beyond graduation. You will learn about contemporary perspectives on professional practice, professionalism, and careers, and you will develop your understanding of how these concepts are related to your future career choices. You will develop awareness of the labour market, as well as the competencies required in the pursuit of various career options. Throughout this unit, you will rely on self-analysis and reflection to establish your own level of competence and personal development needs. Based on understanding the environment, career options, and your current situation, you will strategise for future career success by setting career goals, working towards them, and planning for continued success through lifelong learning and continuous professional development.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 9
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Anti-requisite: MGMT20147 Professional Practice and Career Development

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 2 - 2024

Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Website

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Class and Assessment Overview

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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Informal conversations with students; teaching team feedback; self-reflection; feedback from the CQU Careers Team

Feedback

Incorporate more presentation-style activities in the unit, to ensure students are well prepared for interviews and other forms of communication in a careers context

Recommendation

Incorporate lecture content, workshop materials, and assessable items requiring students to present themselves in a career context.

Feedback from Informal conversations with students; self-reflection

Feedback

Guest speakers were positively received by the cohort.

Recommendation

Retain the Careers Team as guest speakers, and seek to include further career-relevant guest speakers in future offerings.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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This information will be available on Monday 17 June 2024
Academic Integrity Statement

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