COURSE OUTLINE
Course Name CAREER EXPLORING MANAGEMENT Prepared On 2 Sep
Course Code MGT- 311 2020
Credit Hours 48
Course Prereq. Code MGT 111 Revised On 26 Sep
Course Type Core Course Elective 2022
Program BBA MBA
Semester Fall 2022
Instructor: Cdr (R) Dr. Muhammad Akram, Associate
Professor
Course Description
The purpose of Career Exploring and Management is to engage students in an interactive learning
process, helping them develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to successfully examine their
own lives, explore, and effectively evaluate a wide range of education and career options, and make
rational and researched goals for their future. Career Exploration facilitates in‐depth exploration of three
fundamental questions: Who am I? What do I want? How do I get it? The purpose of this course is to
teach the students a comprehensive career planning process. It includes theoretical work in cognition
psychology and relevant knowledge in depth. It provides practical examples of the application of the
theory in typical career situations, including self-knowledge, occupational knowledge, and decision-
making.
Course Learning Outcomes Program Learning Objectives in Focus
Sr. No *PLO 3 *
PLO 6 *
PLO 7
CLO 1 Understand thoroughly the self-knowledge
through various self -assessment tools
CLO 2 Understand the world of work/
environments to match own personality
with a particular work domain/
profession
Apply the self- knowledge and
CLO 3 occupational environments knowledge
for deciding / selection of the most
suitable career/ profession aligned with
one’s personality.
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Teaching & Learning Methodology
Teaching and learning go hand in hand. The best learning occurs when teachers and students both
came prepared to the class ready to deal with the issues that are presented. In this spirit, it is expected
that students will assume the responsibility for their own learning, which includes:
o Regularly attending the class (at least 75 % attendance is compulsory to take your
final exam).
o Respect & listen to the one who is talking.
o Present their ideas in a clear and articulate way.
The teaching methodology will include:
Lectures
Handouts/ reading material/ exercises
Group discussions.
Journal and Magazine articles as home reading assignment.
Case studies and their presentation.
Class Activities
Small Scenario Analysis
Group Project
Textbook(s)
Career Development and Planning, A Comprehensive Approach, 3rd edition. Robert C. Reardon,
Janet G. Lenz, James P. Sampson, Gary W. Peterson.
Career Management for Life 5th Ed. By Greenhaus et.al.
Reference Book(s)
The Ultimate Guide to getting the career you want by Karen O. Dowd and SHERRIE Gong
Taguchi.
Guide to Managing your Career by Len Lawson
Case Studies
Short case studies will be provided in class/ uploaded on LMS
Magazine Articles/ Published Material
Selected articles will be provided in class
Grading Policy
Assessment Instruments Percentage
Quizzes 15%
Assignments + project 20%
Mid Term Exam 25%
Final Exam 40%
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Activities (Critical Thinking)
Week Contents Discussions Topics, Case Studies, Learning
Roleplays, Movie Clips, Assignments, Objectives
Quiz, Research Papers, Presentations Addressed
Wk 1: Course Introduction and group Ted Talk: Draw your Future
formation Worksheets on all theories CLO
Introduction to Career Planning Flip chart activity on career choices 1
Key terms Discussion Points
Career development, career, To understand the role of Parsons, Holland,
occupation, position, job and Super theories in career planning
Theories of Career Choice & To understand how to process the
Development information used in making career choices
Parsons To identify the role of future mapping in
Holland career planning
Super
What is involved in Career Choices
An information processing
pyramid
Wk. 2: Key Career Trends HBR Article presentations and discussions
HBR articles that show various on key trends of 21st century CLO
factors & trends that have effect Video clip on career Anchors 1
on career planning and Worksheet on career anchors
management Discussion Points
Career Anchors To learn about the key trends of jobs and
Introduction to Career Anchors challenges of industry.
Determining Your Own Career To enable students to identify their career
Anchor anchors.
QUIZ 1
Wk. 3: Knowing About Myself- Part I Worksheets on all the theories.
Values- SIGI Video Clips: on MBTI, RIASEC and CLO
Interests- Holland’s Typology, Holland’s Typology. 1
RIASEC, MBTI Discussion Points
Skills & their Identification To develop an understanding of their own
Improving our self- knowledge personality, values, skills, and passions, to
o Thinking “Better” make wise academic and career plans
about myself To explore how career choices supports
o Approaches to students as they answer the question “Who
improving self - am I?” with the activities
knowledge
Knowing About Myself- Part II Role Play and articles on three principles
Bounce back from setbacks of knowing about yourself. CLO
Wk. 4 Assess the present Discussion Points 1
&5 Taking measured risk Importance of recognizing lessons from
setbacks
To explore the ‘present’ to plan for the
future
How to take calculated risk in making
career decisions
QUIZ 2
3
Wk. 6 Career Decision Making Worksheets for career decision making .
Importance of Good Decision
Making CLO
Kind of Career Decision 2
Makers Discussion Points
Problems in effective decision To help students gain self‐awareness to
making make decision‐making an informed and
Decision Making contrasted systematic process
with Problem Solving To provide guidance on setting measurable
The CASVE Cycle goals and objectives
Improving Career Decision
Making
Presentations: Present flipchart illustrations on industry
Wk. 7 Identify Industries of your own trends based on career choices CLO
choice and present details about the
Discussion Points 1, 2, 3
requirement of jobs. Identify industry trends of your choice
Workshop
Wk. 8 Guest Speaker session/ TED Talks Discussion Points
To expose students to contemporary
industry trends that can be useful in their
career planning
Wk. 9 MIDTERM EXAM
Wk. Midterm paper showing and
10 Discussion of paper
Wk. Resume Building Skill based exercises on developing an
11 Difference between CV and effective resume’ CLO
Resume’ Discussion Points 3
Key components of an To enable students to understand the
effective Resume components of an effective resume’
Video resume’ Develop a workable resume’
Develop a video resume’
QUIZ 3
Wk. Networking & Social Media Experiential exercises in networking
12 What is networking Discussion Points CLO
Importance of networking To understand the process of networking 3
Process of networking and how it helps in career success
Use of social media for To explore the use of social media in
networking networking for career success
Managing your Reputation, Discussion Points
Wk. attitudes to adopt and blunders To learn the art of positive image building CLO
13 to avoid in creating career success 3
4 Attachment Styles at Workplace- Identify different attachment styles
Article NY times prevalent in workplace
What is reputation Identify successful and unsuccessful habits
Guidelines for managing your in the workplace
reputation QUIZ 4
Managing your image
4
Habits to have and hold
Dealing with politics
Job Stress & Career Discussion Points
Wk. sustainability To examine how stress can affect job CLO
14 What is Job Stress? performance 3
Sources & consequences of To explore the sources of stress and develop
stress effective stress coping strategies
Coping, Social Support &
Stress QUIZ 5
Contemporary Perspectives on
Wk. Careers: The Protean and * To apprise about the contemporary trends in CLO
15 Boundaryless Careers the career planning and management 3
Wk. Final Project Presentations & Revision/ Q & A Sessions after presentations to clear CLO
16 & Guest Speaker session and consolidate the thought process 1, 2, 3
17
WEEK 18 Final Exams
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ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment-I
Write a career planning essay covering the aspects; 1) where am I now? 2) What I want to achieve?
(plans/ goals) and 3) My plan to achieve my set aim/goal in life?
Assignment-II
Search an HBR Article of key trends of job market and challenges of career in 21st century &
analyse it.
Assignment -III
Identify industries of your own choice and develop a brief on the requirements of positions in that
industry. Also identify key skill that is required to enter that industry.
Assignment-IV
Students will be required to create a video Resume
IN CLASS ACTIVITIES
Article/ Case Study Discussions: Students will be handed HBR case studies and articles. These
case studies will be used as basis for analysis, application, and concept interpretation. The activity
will be conducted in the form of class discussions
Worksheets: Students will be handed worksheets of all relevant theories of career exploring and
management.
Video and Movie Analysis: Students will be required to review various video clips and a movie
and develop discussion points detailing the major career exploring concepts.
Situational Analysis: Students will be given short situations in the class to assess and apply various
career concepts.
Story Board Development: To help students grasp main concepts and narrate them, students will
gain practice in designing storyboards.
GUIDELINES- FINAL PROJECT
Project: Design the idea for a career exploring and management application
Goal: To design a career exploring and management application
Requirements: Students’ idea development and concepts will be driven by an authentic project, which
represents a need in the “real world”. In the case of this project students are asked to develop an
application for students seeking guidance in career planning. Students should consider the user needs,
context, and content in the completion of the project.
Outcome:
Indicate the purpose of the app e.g., personality assessment, career mapping etc.
Create a storyboarding of a basic application, indicating the main design features of the app which
has a minimum of 5 pages/screens.
Explain the background theories/ concepts that have been used e.g., personality assessment,
anchors, job trends etc.
BBA Program Goals
PG1 – Ethical Consideration and Behaviour
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PLO 1: Inculcating ethical values and prosocial behaviour among students through community support
programs and other related activities.
PLO 2: Ensuring ethical considerations while making effective business decisions.
PG2- Analytical skills
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PLO 3: Developing analytical skills by evaluating current and emerging business problems to enhance
critical thinking of students.
PG3 – Communication and interpersonal skills
PLO 4: Enhancing business communication skills for self and professional development through
classroom teaching, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
PLO 5: Developing interpersonal skills by preparing students to work in teams in diverse professional
environment to better understand and respect the opinion of others.
PG4- Core business knowledge
*
PLO 6: Providing core knowledge in the field of management, marketing, finance, human resource,
information technology, statistical analysis, and research.
*
PLO 7: Imparting industry specific knowledge while bridging the gap between academia and industry.
PG5 – Technological skills
PLO 8: Depict knowledge and problem solving through technology based instructional design.
PLO 9: Instil among students the use of current technology through application of relevant and latest
software across broad business domains.
Course Instructor: Cdr (R) Dr. Muhammad Akram
Associate Professor
Department of Business Studies
Email:
[email protected] Cell phone: 0333 5265523
