Joseph Pinkard

Joseph Pinkard – Diploma of Business Administration| RMIT University

VISUAL: Grey/white screen. Black text in centre of screen. “Joseph Pinkard talks about community involvement and raising money for the Red Cross as part of his Diploma of Business Administration studies.” RMIT logo is shown at the centre, bottom of screen.

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Mr Joseph Pinkard (Graduate, Diploma of Business Administration, RMIT University): 

I was, I was working in a different job and I was made redundant. I, yeah, I had a desire to work in a certain field, and as in a kind of entry-level administration position. And on all the job advertisements it would say ‘minimum tertiary requirement’ was that you had a Cert IV or a Diploma of Business Administration, as, a, an absolute minimum.

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Mr Joseph Pinkard: RMIT’s course was offered as a blended program. So that meant that I was able to still work and but then do a part of the course on-line. I really liked the fact that a lot of our assessment was based around a group project. So we were working on an e-conference, which we called the pot-plant-plan e-conference. And the idea of what that was to have was, a, a social focus but then also work on this e-conference. So, we looked at the themes of community and social inclusions.

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Mr Joseph Pinkard: Um and so we also decided to raise money for the Australian Red Cross.

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Mr Joseph Pinkard: So part of the Diploma of Business Administration was a work placement.  A lot of students were working at the time so they were able to use their current, jobs, for that work placement. But I didn't have a job in an administrative area at that time.

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Mr Joseph Pinkard: And so lecturers helped me find a job placement at the end of my course. And I found that really affirming and encouraging, to kind of, yeah, consolidate the things that I’d leant in theory in a kind of a real-world situation.

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Mr Joseph Pinkard: In five years time I’d like to see myself working with Poverty Dynamics Australia. And that we had projects not only going in Africa but in Central and South America

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