Business Industry Placement (RBUS7999)

Course overview

This course aims to provide final year students with the opportunity to apply conceptual knowledge to the real world via a professional placement or industry consultancy project (group project). As such, this course strongly links discipline learnings, personal employability skills and attributes developed by students across the duration of their studies with the challenges and expectations of working in industry. In doing so, students have the opportunity to gain valuable work experience in their chosen profession and to connect this experience to the development of a workplace ready skill-set. Successful completion of the course will provide students with the employability skills required for transition to the world of work. Further information about how to apply for RBUS7999 can be found on the BEL Faculty's work-integrated learning website.

RBUS7999 is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course that provides students with the opportunity to apply their conceptual knowledge to the real world via a professional placement or industry project. The placement allows you to integrate your theoretical and conceptual knowledge with the skills and problem-solving techniques required in the workplace. As such, the course is particularly focused on enabling you to develop your employability skills, gain knowledge, understand the attitudes of business professionals, grow your professional network, and engage with real world business issues.

Why is Business Industry Placement Important?

Your employability and career success are important outcomes of your degree. The Business Industry Placement aims to develop awareness of your employability strengths, development needs and how to create an action plan to strengthen these needs. Thus, it is structured to promote a valuable industry placement/project, real work experiences and assist in bridging your transformation from student to reflective practitioner.

Industry placement can occur in one of two ways:

• Direct work placement with an employer lasting 80 to 120 hours throughout the semester. Students should find their own work placement in a functional area of management practice in an organisation that is willing to host them and provide meaningful project work to further develop your skills and abilities. Support is also available from the faculty Student Employability Team, SET to help source an appropriate host organisation. The placement can be completed in one block of 3 or 4 weeks full-time. In exceptional circumstances the placement can be completed in or 2 days a week over 7-8 weeks or 3 days a week over 4-5 weeks. Students negotiate their working hours with their Workplace Supervisor.
• Participation in an industry consultancy project. Students will be allocated to a project team that will provide a business solution to a client. Project work occur every week throughout the semester and will be supervised by a tutor. The project culminates in a presentation and report to the client.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Articulate your knowledge, skills and abilities related to your employability.
• Demonstrate how you can use and apply your knowledge, skills and abilities
• Produce a personal value proposition

Course requirements

Assumed background

This course is available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Commerce or the Bachelor of Business Management. Before gaining entry to this course, students will need to have successfully completed 24 units within their respective program with a grade point average of 5.00 (or higher) and have the approval of the course coordinator.

Prerequisites

You'll need to complete the following courses before enrolling in this one:

GPA of 4.0 or higher. Approval required from Head of School via Business School Postgraduate Student Liaison Team.

Restrictions

Restricted to students in the final year of the MBus, MCom, MEI and MTHEM programs.

Jointly taught details

This course is jointly-taught with:

Students will jointly attend the seminar series with both RBUS3999 and RBUS4999.

Course contact

Course staff

Timetable

The timetable for this course is available on the UQ Public Timetable.

Additional timetable information

This course will share teaching activities with RBUS3999 and RBUS4999.

Seven seminars are provided to assist students through the Course. Attendance is required to maximise your assessment and the available support for your placement. Arrangements to attend are made between the student and their employer.

Due dates for assessment items, including the Industry Presentations (oral) and the venues will be published on Blackboard.

You must check your university email address for announcements about RBUS3999/RBUS4999/RBUS7999, for updates and additional information throughout the semester.

Please note: Teaching staff doﾠnotﾠhave access to the timetabling system to help with class allocation. Therefore, should you need help with your timetable and/or allocation of classes, please ensure you emailﾠbusiness.mytimetable@uq.edu.auﾠfrom your UQ student email account with the following details:

• Full name,
• Student ID, and
• the Course Code

Aims and outcomes

The transfer of knowledge and graduate attributes in meaningful work experience helps develops students’ employability potential.

The Business Industry Placement Course provides a strong link between the knowledge and graduate attributes you have developed from all of your courses at UQ and the challenges and expectations of employment.

You will be given the opportunity to gain work experience in your chosen profession. Also, via project work you will practically demonstrate to employers that you can transfer your knowledge and graduate attributes to employment.

Learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course you should be able to:

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment details

A1. Video pitch (ALL students)

Mode

Oral

Category

Presentation

Weight

20%

Due date

20/09/2024 5:00 pm

Learning outcomes

L01, L03

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

A2. Professional Development Plan (ALL students)

Mode

Written

Category

Essay/ Critique

Weight

30%

Due date

18/10/2024 5:00 pm

Learning outcomes

L01, L06, L07

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

A3. Critical workplace reflection (INTERNSHIP students)

Mode

Written

Category

Essay/ Critique, Reflection

Weight

50%

Due date

25/10/2024 5:00 pm

Learning outcomes

L02, L04, L05, L06

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

A3. Critical workplace reflection (PROJECT students)

Mode

Written

Category

Essay/ Critique, Reflection

Weight

20%

Due date

25/10/2024 5:00 pm

Learning outcomes

L02, L04, L05, L06

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

A3: Project presentation and report (PROJECT students)

• Team or group-based

Mode

Oral, Product/ Artefact/ Multimedia

Category

Presentation, Project

Weight

20%

Due date

25/10/2024 5:00 pm

Learning outcomes

L02, L03, L04, L05, L06

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

A3: Peer assessment (PROJECT students)

Mode

Activity/ Performance

Category

Essay/ Critique

Weight

10%

Due date

25/10/2024 5:00 pm

Other conditions

Peer assessed.

See the conditions definitions

Learning outcomes

L01, L06

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

Course grading

Full criteria for each grade is available in the Assessment Procedure.

Additional course grading information

Grades will be allocated according to University-wide standards of criterion-based assessment.

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessment is not available for some items in this course.

Please note: Supplementary assessment is not available to a student who fails the course because of their achievement in the Team Project Presentation and Report.

Learning resources

You'll need the following resources to successfully complete the course. We've indicated below if you need a personal copy of the reading materials or your own item.

Library resources

Library resources are available on the UQ Library website.

Additional learning resources information

Please note that past central exam papers mentioned above in section 3.3 is irrelevant sinceﾠRBUS7999 does not have examinations.

Please see section 5 for assessment details.

Recommended Resources:

The independent learning approach used this course will require students to develop their own reading schedules that use theories and/or concepts that will be relevant in their assessment tasks.ﾠNumerous readings are provided on the Blackboard site.ﾠ

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Learning activities

The learning activities for this course are outlined below. Learn more about the learning outcomes that apply to this course.

Policies and procedures

University policies and procedures apply to all aspects of student life. As a UQ student, you must comply with University-wide and program-specific requirements, including the:

• Student Code of Conduct Policy
• Student Integrity and Misconduct Policy and Procedure
• Assessment Procedure
• Examinations Procedure
• Reasonable Adjustments - Students Policy and Procedure

Learn more about UQ policies on my.UQ and the Policy and Procedure Library.