Study Guide

Objective

The Career Planning course provides students with tools and knowledge for planning their career path and setting professional goals. The course focuses on career development planning, identifying personal strengths, and developing professional skills. Students will gain the ability to evaluate their career goals, make career choices, and improve their career management skills. The course supports students' ability to adapt to the changing demands and challenges of the labor market and encourages them to take responsibility for their own career development.

Learning outcomes:

The student is able to set professional and career goals and plan their career path in line with these goals.
The student understands trends and changes in working life and is able to use this knowledge in career planning.
The student is able to analyze their own strengths, skills, and areas of interest.
The student understands the importance of study well-being and is able to consider factors that affect study ability and coping, such as strengthening study skills, time management, and life management.
The student is able to tolerate uncertainties related to study choices and the future.
In the development discussion, the student is able to evaluate the development of their own competence and set goals for their development.

Content

Planning Your Study Path and Familiarization with Business Administration Specialization Studies

Course content:

Basics of career development and career planning
Identifying and evaluating your own skills and strengths
Trends in the labor market and job market situation
International competence in working life and studies
Development discussion and updating of the personal study plan (HOPS).

Location and time

Wärtsilä campus, classes according to your group's schedule.

Materials

Course materials distributed during the course

Teaching methods

The Career Planning course provides students with tools and knowledge for planning their career path and setting professional goals. The course focuses on career development planning, identifying personal strengths, and developing professional skills. Students will gain the ability to evaluate their career goals, make career choices, and improve their career management skills. The course supports students' ability to adapt to the changing demands and challenges of the labor market and encourages them to take responsibility for their own career development.

During the course, students will learn about the business administration specialization studies and have a development discussion with their teacher tutor. The course consists of lectures and independently completed learning tasks.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The approved performance includes attending the classes of the course, completing the assignments according to the instructions and returning them in the given schedule, as well as the mid-stage development discussion of the studies with the teacher tutor during the fall semester.

Evaluation scale

Approved/Rejected