INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Year 2/4

The Employability and Career Development module aims to facilitate business management students to define their career goals and plans and identify personal employability potential through the identification of individual strengths and the areas for future development in the desired career field.

By the end of the module, students will be able to:

1.      Research and critically evaluate the graduate employment market

2.      Identify where their chosen career path lies within the employment market

3.      Synthesize the key skills and knowledge requirements for the chosen career and delineate how they can demonstrate these skills in the work environment

4.      Research and design a series of personal/professional career tools which can be used in business management and relevant management disciplines for the recruitment market.

Lectures and demonstrations will be organised to present the basic concepts and principles of employability.  Seminars and tool-based activities will be used to discuss and explain the implications for practice from specific problem areas in career development. Students will be expected to complement this study with intensive self-directed learning.