Program Overview

GMBA8101 – Your Career, Your Life

2025 – Coursera term 3, Online-scheduled-weekday

General Information

The unit convenor is Paul Nesbit. This unit is worth 5 credit points. The prerequisites for this unit are admission to GMBA or GradCertGlobalBusPrac. There are no corequisites or co-badged status for this unit.

The unit description is as follows: Are you satisfied with your professional career? Where do you see yourself in the near or even distant future? No matter where you are on your professional journey, everyone can benefit from some planning. This course will help you adapt to these changes successfully by enabling you to enhance your self-knowledge and confidence to explore wider career options and opportunities. In this course, you will learn how to create a career development plan to help you reach your professional goals and aspirations. This course will provide you with valuable and practical guidance for your career planning and self-management based on evidence-based models of goal setting (self-determination theory and goal setting theory), career adaptability (career construction theory, social cognitive career theory, and job crafting theory), and career success (social capital theory and psychological capital theory). Via structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts, industry interviews, and written assessments) you will come to appreciate that career planning and management is an ongoing process of assessing one's career identity, setting new learning goals, creating new career vision and goals, developing effective career strategies, and celebrating accomplishments as one develops and becomes more skilled.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

• Evaluate current career management issues and their implications on your professional career plans and development.
• Create strategies and approaches to set new career vision, goals, and action plans.
• Apply knowledge of career models and tools for successful career planning and management.
• Design a career path that fits personal values, interests, personality, and skills.

General Assessment Information

Late Assessment Submission Penalty (written assessments): Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of '0' will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:59 pm (Sydney time). A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern. For any late submissions of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to apply for Special Consideration.

Assessment Tasks

• Career Pathways: 60% of the total mark, due on Monday, 16 June, at 11:59 pm.
• Career exploration analysis: 40% of the total mark, due on Monday, 26 May, at 11:59 pm.

Career Pathways

Assessment Type: Design Task
Indicative Time on Task: 16 hours
Due: Monday, 16 June, at 11:59 pm
Weighting: 60%
Length: maximum 1,800 words (excluding references)
Task type: Design task
Groupwork: No
Task: You will apply approaches to create a flexible career plan and adapt your profile/s and related job application materials for a number of career plans identified.

Career exploration analysis

Assessment Type: Design Task
Indicative Time on Task: 8 hours
Due: Monday, 26 May, at 11:59 pm
Weighting: 40%
Length: maximum 1,000 words (excluding references)
Task type: Design task
Groupwork: No
Task: You will use elements of the IKIGAI framework, your new knowledge about cultural values of leading companies, and your understanding of the attributes of 'adaptiveness' to explore career values you are most attracted to.

Delivery and Resources

Refer to the Coursera site for more information.

Policies and Procedures

Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central. Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:

• Academic Appeals Policy
• Academic Integrity Policy
• Academic Progression Policy
• Assessment Policy
• Fitness to Practice Procedure
• Assessment Procedure
• Complaints Resolution Procedure for Students and Members of the Public
• Special Consideration Policy

Academic Integrity

At Macquarie, academic integrity – honesty, respect, trust, responsibility, fairness, and courage – is at the core of learning, teaching, and research. The university recognizes that meeting the expectations required to complete assessments can be challenging and offers a range of resources and services to help students reach their potential.