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Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students offers a comprehensive, one-stop guide that will equip you with all the necessary skills needed to enhance your success both during university and in your future working environment. It covers all the core areas associated with business and management degrees, and offers a unique focus on employability to ensure that you can translate the skills you acquire into professional practice.
This third edition has been fully revised to include a new group activity in each chapter, as well as updated activities throughout to reinforce the skills introduced in each chapter. The content and structure of the book has been updated to focus more effectively on core areas such as the use of quantitative data, and the development of professional skills and employability.
With the main focus of the book firmly on active experimentation and reflection, Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students remains unparalleled as a resource to support, encourage, and develop business and management students throughout their time at university and beyond.
Online Resource Centre:
For students:
Selected activities from the text (including templates to complete online)
Answer guidance on writing style and using a narrative approach
Critical incidents log
Excel workbook to provide additional support in areas such as constructing pie charts, bar charts, and line charts
Information on using Excel in data analysis
Web links
YouTube channel featuring relevant videos on skills, including interviews with students and graduates that accompany the book
For lecturers:
PowerPoint slides
Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students
by Gallagher, KevinEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-07-12
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Author Biography
Kevin Gallagher, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland
Table of Contents
Introduction: Setting the scene: study, workplace, and development skills
1. Developing skills for business and management students
2. Foundations for personal development
3. Personal development and career planning
4. Effective communication
5. Locating information and smart search skills
6. Assignment research: developing a critical approach
7. Reading skills
8. Writing essentials: preparation, layout and structure
9. Presentation skills
10. How much, how fast, how far? - Quantitative data and its presentation
11. Teamwork skills
12. Creativity and innovation skills
13. Gaining experience and developing your CV
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