...| [ |Course Syllabus | | |College of Humanities | | |Foundations for General Education and | | |Professional Success | | | | | . All rights reserved. Course Description This general education course is designed to introduce the intentional learner to communication, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional competence and values. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach for the learner to develop personal academic strategies in order to reach desired goals and achieve academic success. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University...
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...Corporate presentation May 2016 Content Our vision Our global reach Our strategy Our services & solutions Our business Our corporate social responsibility Our results Our future perspective Our global programmes Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 2 Our vision Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 3 Our vision We inspire individuals and organisations to work more effectively and efficiently, and create greater choice in the domain of work, for the benefit of all concerned. Our business has a positive impact on millions of people every day. Helping people to “better work, better life” is our common purpose and the way in which we contribute to society. This is what we do, this is what we know about, this is what we care about, this is what we are all about. For more information: www.adecco.com/en-US/About/Pages/default.aspx Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 4 Our global reach Corporate Presentation May 2016 Slide 5 Our global reach We help around 700,000 people find work every day through our network of more than 32,000 full-time employees and around 5,100 branches in over 60 countries and territories around the world. The Adecco Group is the world’s leading provider of HR solutions. Our services and solutions fall into the broad categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, career transition and talent development as well as outsourcing and consulting. Corporate Presentation May 2016 ...
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...high-quality care and education by: 1. ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and guidelines; 2. promoting fiscal soundness, program accountability, effective communication, helpful consultative services, positive community relations, and comfortable and supportive workplaces; 3. maintaining stable staff; and 4. instituting ongoing program planning and career development opportunities for staff as well as continuous program improvement. Application: You are the director of your own center. Using Standard #10 in “Overview of the NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards” and Chapter 7 as a guide, create an eight- to ten-slide PowerPoint presentation to share with your staff, demonstrating one of the following NAEYC points: 1. Program accountability How will you demonstrate this to families and to the community? 2. Effective communication How do you communicate with your staff, families, and community? 3. Positive community relations How will you promote this as a center? What role does your staff play? 4. Comfortable and supportive workplaces How will you ensure that you will create this for your staff? 5. Career...
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...I can assure you by now, you are completely aware of just how much I want to pursue nursing as a career; although I did not attend this presentation, I can easily talk about the topic of nursing for hours. From what I could collect from the slides and talking to my other classmates, this presentation seemed to include a lot of factual information on this career path. Prior to the speaker’s presentation, I am completely aware of just about every requirement needed to become a nurse; I am aware of the education requirements, considering recently I have meant with my advisor as we made sure I am taking the correct courses and my grades are adequate for when I do begin to apply for nursing programs some time down the road. I hope to be a part of...
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...Course Description This course offers guidance and examples on how to communicate effectively in a workplace that is increasingly dependent upon technology as a means to communicate globally. The course provides students with an understanding of technology-mediated communication and the ability to maximize the use of new media to optimize organizational communications. Intranets, Internet, e-commerce, and the impacts upon customer satisfaction of new communications technologies are explored. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Turban, E., King, D., McKay, J., Marshall, P., Lee, J., & Viehland, D. (2008). Electronic commerce 2008: A managerial perspective (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. Roebuck, D. B. (2006). Improving business communication skills (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. All electronic materials are available...
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...Management of Soft Skills @ Campus Placement ABSTRACT Every student pursuing a professional career in engineering/management or any other stream has an ambition to obtain a challenging job in a company of repute (a brand name) and make a successful career. The eligibility of any student for campus placement although decides on the basis of his current and past academic performance (i.e. 10th and 12th marks) but his success in the interview is mainly depend on the technical knowledge and mostly on presentation / communication skill/general awareness. This implies the importance of soft skill knowledge at this stage. Basic campus placement activities conduct in three phases. 1. Technical or subject Test 2. Group discussion 3. Personal Interview A group discussion or GD conducted to test following skill of the candidates. • Interpersonal skill-listening, speaking, receptiveness, team spirit etc. • Clarity of thoughts-knowledge and ability to link known fact • Communication skill- coherence And the interview process to evaluate the candidate on various aspects such as goal, attitude, and motivational level ability to react the situation etc. This also helps company to assess the cultural fit between the company and students. This paper will elaborate on exact soft skill required for the students who are ready for placement i.e. final or pre final year students of the college based on four important factors...
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...Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences PSYC573-13A (HAM) Personnel Training & Development Lecture times/rooms: Thursdays, 09:00am – 10:50am. Room I1.08. Lecturer/Convenor: Donald Cable, Room K1.01. Extn: 8296. Email: dcable@waikato.ac.nz Student consultation hours: Thursdays 14:00-15:00. Other times by appointment. Paper Description The aim of this paper is for you to develop an understanding of the theory, research, and practice relating to training and development (including career development) in organizations. Upon successfully completing this course, you should be able to: understand, and apply personnel training and development psychology theory and research, and bridge the gap between this and the practice, conduct training needs analyses and evaluate training and development (including career and professional development) initiatives, identify or develop training programs which incorporate sound principles of learning and training transfer, identify and develop the competencies that will support you in pursuing a career as an organizational psychology (or HR) practitioner with a focus on the training and development of individuals in organizations. Blending the exploratory learning aspect of Active Learning with proceduralized instruction, and creating a learning environment within which students are actively encouraged to construct knowledge, this paper includes lectures with associated readings, student seminars, and an applied project. The emphasis is on the construction...
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...Professional status Interview Structure The interview will consist of general and technical parts and last between 40 and 60 minutes in total. Although there is no set order for this, the following is a general guide for the format the interview may take: Introduction and Career Review: Greeting, introduction, aims and structure of the interview Personal history relating to career progression – based on the Career Overview Report The Technical Part: 10 minute presentation You make a short 10 minute introductory presentation which can be paper based but predominately verbal (no electronic medium) to introduce a project/s or piece/s of work referenced in your Mandatory Competence Attainment Report General discussion, questioning and conclusions: You will be expected to answer questions from the Interview Panel to ensure you have achieved all of the Mandatory Competences (IEng) Current environmental issues Summing up questions Final opportunity to tell the Professional Review Interviewers about anything else in support of your application The interviewers are there to find out what you know and what you have achieved, they are not there to catch you out. Presentation Guidance You introductory presentation should be about 10 minutes and should demonstrate the...
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...to Allen. D (2009) be defined as action plan been laid down by an individual, it includes setting achievable goals with specific timing and according to a particular choice if career and it also helps in job improvement and student enhancement in their studies. In other to have a good personal development plan, there must be a full assessment by the individual on his/her “SWOT” analysis which contains the individual’s strength, weakness, opportunity and threats. These factors must be carefully evaluated in other to reach the desired end that the individual has in mind. As an individual doing business of any kind has been a lifelong process and a dream, doing it consciously and unconsciously during my primary school days where having more than one sweet or biscuit will be traded or exchanged with my classmates in other to get more or get a different type, after completing my primary school moving to the next level and choosing Arts class was kind of easy for me because I have been building a strong foundation unknowingly. Furthermore when the time came for me to choose a career path in my University life I opted for business management because even though it’s very competitive I find it interesting because steadily updating myself about the current world markets and trends. This wonderful career in business can only be achievable if I have a good personal development plan (PDP) at hand. LABOUR MARKET Having the knowledge that the labor market has all the information...
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...Evaluation Phase 13 3.4 Review Phase 14 4. Project manager skills 15 5. Lessons learned 17 II. Reference List 19 III. Appendix 19 Exhibit 1: ‘Campus Live – Infoveranstaltung für Unternehmen’ 19 Exhibit 2: Draft questionnaire ‘Bewerbungsvorlieben’ 20 Exhibit 3: Info letter for student assistants 21 Exhibit 4: Questionnaire ‘Fragebogen Jobbörse 2013’ 22 Exhibit 5: Presentation ‘PPT Jobbörse’ 24 Exhibit 6: Poster ‘T-shirt raffle’ 25 2 1. Introduction On April 23rd of this year the annual job fair ‘firstcontact’ was held at the Stadthalle Deggendorf. Over 150 firms used this opportunity to present themselves to the students of Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences(First Contact e.V., 2013). This job fair is the chance for the students to get in contact with company representatives and inform themselves about job opportunities, trainee programs and much more for the life after their graduation. The fair is organised by the student’s club First Contact e.V. of Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences. Back in March of this year, at the beginning of the summer term, I applied for a job as a student assistant for the career service at HDU Deggendorf. I was hired shortly after for the summer term 2013. In my contract the task I was supposed to carry out in my new function was stated: Conduct a research study on the topic of recruiting amongst the students of Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences. It was planned that the results of this research study were to be presented...
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...BA 3300 Business Cornerstone Summer I 2015 CRN 30146, 30144 BA 3300 Business Cornerstone Summer I 2015 CRN 30146, 30144 Please note: By taking this Summer course, it implies you fully understand you have to take the initiative to study, keep up with material/assignments, and check Gatormail/Blackboard EACH day. You do not have a day “off” and this includes weekends. There is also a SERVICE LEARNING (volunteering) component to this course that you are required to volunteer in person. (details explained in syllabus 8.1.5). In addition, a policy adopted by the Faculty of the College of Business on November 22, 2013 states, "Every fully online COB course will require live proctoring through UHD Testing Services or other location approved by UHD Testing Services for the required course final exam during the assigned university exam period." What this policy means is you will have to take the final exam IN PERSON (Proctor U also an option) and will need to plan accordingly. (note: please contact instructor immediately in the first week of class if taking the exam in person will be an issue). 1. COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE BA 3300 Business Cornerstone This course is in support of a degree program at the UHD College of Business that has earned professional accreditation by AACSB International. AACSB International is an association of more than 11,100 business educational institutions, and other organizations in 70 countries that are dedicated to the advancement...
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...PSP111-1001A-02 Presentation Essentials Assignment Name: Unit 1 Individual Project Deliverable Length: 2-page paper Details: Choose and view videos of two good presentations on topics related to a career. For each, discuss in-depth the three parts of, and the relationship among the parts of, the Rhetorical Triangle as described in the Unit 1 online Course Materials: speaker, audience, and situation. Explain why each element was successful or not successful in the presentation. Then compare and contrast the two presentations: Tell which one is more effective and explain the reasons why. Include citations and references for your videos. Please submit your assignment. (I HAVE UPLOADED THE 2 VIDEOES I HAVE CHOSEN) Unit 1 IP: 125 possible points can be earned in accordance with the following rubric: Please read the required Chapters 1 and 2 in the textbook. The optional “Critical Thinking” exercises can focus your thinking about the “speaker” element of the Rhetorical Triangle. Please note that you will find career-related video resources required for the Unit 1 IP if you click on “Library” . . . “Find Web Resources” . . . “General Studies” . . . “Business Presentations.” NOTE: WIKIPEDIA MAY NOT BE USED AS A SOURCE FOR ANY OF OUR PROJECTS BECAUSE IT IS NOT A RELIABLE ACADEMIC RESOURCE. Choose two GOOD career-related videos. These should include general information about a career rather than specific procedures from a specific company. Do not choose videos about specific...
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...Today I want to talk about a strong woman called Fiona Wood. She is known for Spray-on skin. / Now I want show you the outline of my presentation. This is the outline of my presentation. I will talk about the basic information, early life, career, invention, contribution and awards of Fiona wood. / Her full name is Fiona Melanie Wood .She was born in England in the 2nd of February 1958 and her Nationality is British and Australian.She is a plastic surgeon working in Perth, Western Australia. She is also a clinical professor of the University of the Australia. As you can see in the PowerPoint, She is the Director of McCombie Research Foundation, Royal Perth Hospital burns unit, Western Australia Burns Service. / Now let’s we talk about her early life. Wood was athletic as a child, she had a dream of becoming an Olympic sprinter before eventually setting her sights on a medical career. She graduated from St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London in 1981 and worked for a time at a British hospital. She moved to Perth in 1987 after marrying surgeon Tony Keirath, a native of Western Australia. / This is wood‘s career. She earned her primary fellowship (1983) and fellowship (1985) from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS). She became Western Australia’s first female plastic surgeon, after earning her fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in plastic and reconstructive surgery (1991). From the early 1990s Wood focused her research on improving established...
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...Team Project #1: “Getting to Know LSCC” Project—400 points [pic][pic][pic] Handout Alert: Pass instructions out to students. See Week 3 supplements for student project handout. Team Project #1: Selecting Groups Tip: How to get students to select their topics, without knowing it: Have each group select a number, 1-7, whatever number they select as a team, will be their project. “Getting to Know Lawson State Project” Group Project #1: Using effective leadership, time management, communication, critical thinking, social and team work skills, each group, through the use of a variety of internet based tools (to include pre-recorded Tegrity sessions, pre-recorded videos, office handouts and/or brochures, Internet research and other methods of discovery), will showcase a particular campus activity or department on campus via a pre-designed PowerPoint template. Each group will be charged with creating the content for a 10-15 minute PowerPoint slide show to be stored on their online Group page that will highlight their selected campus topic. Groups can opt out of using the standard template for this activity, but all questions must be answered that are outlined within the PowerPoint. The idea of the activity is to expose students to the various departments and key programs at the college (while building their technical skills as well). Groups are encouraged to be resourceful in their approach...
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...been provided on the Unit website on VU Collaborate which can be reached via the Student Portal at vu.edu.au/student-tools/myvu-student-por tal. It is important that you access your Unit website regularly. Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge and recognise the traditional owners, their Elders past and present, their descendants and kin as the custodians of this land. Introduction to the unit Unit Title: Applied Business Challenge Unit Code: BPD3100 Other details: Key staff Unit co-ordinator Name: Andrew Stein Location: CF1024 Contact number: 061-99194332 Contact email: Andrew.stein@vu.edu.au Name: Maria De Sensi Location: G425 Contact number: 061-99195484 Contact email: Maria.De Sensi@vu.edu.au Teaching team Campus: Days and times: Year: 2015 Semester/Dates: 1 Credit Points: 12 alagarania@sunway.edu.my Sunway KL Campus Hector.Elias@vu.edu.au VU Sydney Campus Petert@sunway.edu.my Sunway JB Campus Unit Guide Version Number: V17-5 Last Validation Date:February 5th 1/12/14 @ 2 PM Unit description This unit is the third unit in the Business Challenge stream covering three broad areas of specialised business knowledge, interna tionalisation, personal attributes and professional skills....
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