| CODE | PHR1606 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Career and Personal Development | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Pharmacy | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit is concerned with an introduction to the world of work covering labour market information, career planning, job search techniques, curriculum vitae preparation, interviewing skills and questions and correspondence. - Realising strengths and fulfilling potential - Evaluate aptitude, styles and potential growth areas, the core elements of professional excellence, developing professional power, effective self management. - Enhancing your thinking - Understanding thinking processes, core of interpersonal effectiveness. - Achieving results in pressure situations - Working productively with colleagues, managing stress productively. - Building your professional reputation - Amplifying effectiveness through networking, demonstrating political intelligence. - Preparing and presenting winning proposals - Successful proposal writing, compiling effective proposals, presenting proposals. - Creating desired results - Assembling a success strategy, controlling the work environment. - Management skills. - Critical thinking skills. - Public speaking. - Dress code. Study-unit Aims: To emphasise personal responsibility and initiative in the workplace, effective management and working productively with others to enhance professional success and the success of the workplace. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to use the comprehensive professional skills acquired to help him/her remain focused, work effectively with colleagues, develop networks and expertise, and build a reputation for delivering results. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Develop skills to achieve maximum productivity and effectiveness in their work environment. - Build and leverage their professional reputation. - Get results working with different personality types. - Maintain focus in pressure situations. - Work productively within the political environment in their workplace. - Make a balanced choice between professional and personal commitments. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Cottrell S. Skills for success: The personal development planning handbook. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan; 2010. - Raelin JA. Personal career development for professsionals. USA: Beard Books; 2002. - Ricketts C. Leadership: Personal development and career success. 2nd ed. USA: Delmar; 2003. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Alison Anastasi Annalise Attard |
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