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Professional Development and Application (BUSA90554)
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Overview
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This subject is designed to help students develop the skills and knowledge required to effectively manage the early stages of their career, as well as assess their academic learning in a real-world setting. This subject runs across the entire year of the full-time course and identifies specific needs of each individual student and then provides ongoing support, training, and opportunities to practice and perfect these skills.
The subject also integrates academic learning and practical challenges in implementing data analytics in an organisation via a 5-week group internship as a key learning and assessment aid for employability skills and attributes, providing improved knowledge of organisations, workplace culture and career pathways for students.
Assessment of the subject includes the completion of the report and a project presentation. This is a team project. Students interested in a research higher degree may, with permission, undertake an individual research project.
The program focuses on four areas:
- Communication skills: These skills include effective presentations, verbal communication, written communication, public speaking, and communicating technical material to non-technical audiences.
- Career development skills: These skills include case practice, interview skills, CV writing, networking, and business etiquette.
- Team skills: These skills include managing conflict, cultural awareness, giving and receiving feedback, and resilience.
- Practicum skills: The completion of a 5-week project using real data in/from an industry setting under an approved supervisor.
The first three areas are the preparation for industry placement.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Appreciate the importance of communication and team skills in career success
- Have identified communication, career development, and team skills that need improvement.
- Work effectively in teams
- Create an effective CV & Address case-based interviews
- Deliver a technical report appropriate for a non-technical audience.
- Identify ethical issues & concerns in the acquisition, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data & appreciate the importance of ethical practice and apply it in a workplace context.
- Produce original work in an appropriate format which demonstrates analytical, research and problem-solving skills.
- Put into practice communication, interpersonal, organisational and time management skills in a workplace context.
- Review and reflect on the process and output of a team-based business project to their academic and career development.
Last updated: 30 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Completion of 100 credit points from the following subjects: Business Data Platforms, Coding for Business Problems, Decision Making and Optimisation, Statistical Learning for Business, Machine Learning & AI for Business, Causal Analytics for Business, Predictive Business Analytics, Text Analytics for Business, Risk Analytics, Customer Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 30 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Cover letter and CV and individual presentation
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
Individual report
| Week 2 | 10% |
Syndicate research report
| Week 6 | 40% |
Syndicate oral presentation
| Week 6 | 20% |
Reflection essay
| Week 6 | 10% |
Last updated: 30 January 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2023
Last updated: 30 January 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 30 January 2024