Course Summary
This course will develop both your knowledge of career theory and the skills you will require to manage your career in project management, both in the local and global context. You will examine career development from your initial entry in the workforce to the more advanced career development stage, where project managers take responsibility for their own professional development. The objectives of this course are to equip you to with the knowledge, skills and attributes required to: investigate employer expectations of project management graduates in terms of graduate skills and characteristics; investigate local and global career opportunities; produce a career development plan in order to maximise your career achievements; and develop a professional development plan to support life long learning.
Specifically, this course examines:
1. Transition to work
2. Career ownership
3. Professional development
4. Global careers