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Executive summary
The first year of Business Administration program sufficiently covers almost all of the skills described in the Employability skills 2000+ handout from the Conference Board of Canada, at least as well as can be done in a single year.
Each skill is examined and shown how the program transfers knowledge of the skill to the student. One of the recurring items is the major assignments that the students must complete the projects more than the instruction itself is what students learn the most from. I also noticed that more time is spent on teaching communication to students than any other skill in the handout.
There are only two recommendations that I would make, which are:
1. In the computers in business or business communication newer web communication and collaboration applications should be taught. The new forms of digital communication such as twitter, blogs, and RSS are becoming more and more important for companies that want to communicate with their customers. Students will need to know how to use these systems properly.
2. There is no real learning outside of the discipline, any option that is taken in the first year must be within the business admin program. There should be an option or even a requirement to take a course outside of the program.
Employability Skills 2000+
Introduction
The business Administration program at the Grande Prairie Regional College teaches us many technical skills, but what about more universal or soft skills that are looked for by every employer? The Employability Skills 2000+ (Conference Board Of Canada, 2010) is a useful tool for evaluating whether a specific program properly imparts these universal skills to its students. In this report the Skills will be b...
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...with their customers. Students will need to know how to use these systems properly.
2. There is no real learning outside of the discipline, any option that is taken in the first year must be within the business admin program. There should be an option or even a requirement to take a course outside of the program.
Conclusion
Just going to college itself is valuable in building all of the skills as experience is more important than instruction in many cases. That being said most of the skills in the Employability Skills 2000+ are covered thoroughly in Business Administration Certificate program, at least as far as possible in a single year of education. There is an emphasis on the fundamental skills and a further focus on the communication portion of that set of skills, and a desire to teach these skills through experience (assignments) instead of instruction.
I am currently a mid-level manager and to move forward in my organization I need to obtain a four-year degree. I was able to directly use what I was learning in this course in my work relat...
Kevin Gallagher (2010).Skills Development for Business and Management Students. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For every job that you have, you will need to have a certain set of skills to be successful. For example, two people are looking to be hired, but only one person will actually get the job. The two people have near identical resumes but a few things make them different. While the first person was able to articulate his ideas when he was being interviewed, the second person could not. The first person was incredibly dedicated to getting the job while the second person was not. Last but not least, the first person was able to adapt to the fast moving paced job unlike the second person. In the end the first person got the job because of his dedication, flexibility, and communication skills. It would be extremely unbeneficial to go into a job without having, in my opinion, these most important set of skills. While there are several job skills that are essential to being successful, I strongly believe that being dedicated, adaptable, and have phenomenal communication skills are the most important.
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