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GMBA8101 – Your Career, Your Life

2025 – Coursera term 6, Online-scheduled-weekday

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit Convenor
Paul Nesbit
paul.nesbit@mq.edu.au
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Credit points Credit points
5
Prerequisites Prerequisites
Admission to GMBA or GradCertGlobalBusPrac
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

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 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.

Important Academic Dates

Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates

Learning Outcomes

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

  • ULO1: Evaluate current career management issues and their implications on your professional career plans and development.
  • ULO2: Create strategies and approaches to set new career vision, goals and action plans.
  • ULO3: Apply knowledge of career models and tools for successful career planning and management.
  • ULO4: 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

11:59pm(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

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Career exploration analysis 40% No Monday 10 November 11.59pm Sydney Time
Career Pathways 60% No Monday 1 December 11.59pm Sydney Time

Career exploration analysis

Assessment Type 1: Design Task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 8 hours
Due: Monday 10 November 11.59pm Sydney Time
Weighting: 40%

 

Length: max 1,000 words (excl. references) Task type: Design task Groupwork: No Task: You will use elements of IKIGAI framework, your new knowledge about cultural values of the leading companies and your understanding of the attributes of ‘adaptiveness’ to explore career values you are most attracted to. Please refer to the section Resources - Assessment Information in your online unit for detailed information on this assignment as well as the marking criteria. You will be asked to submit your completed task via the Assignment submission link in your online unit.

 
On successful completion 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.

Career Pathways

Assessment Type 1: Design Task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 16 hours
Due: Monday 1 December 11.59pm Sydney Time
Weighting: 60%

 

Length: max 1,800 words (excl. 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. Please refer to the section Resources - Assessment Information in your online unit for detailed information on this assignment as well as the marking criteria. You will be asked to submit your completed task via the Assignment submission link in your online unit.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • 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.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Please refer to the unit content on Coursera.

Unit Schedule

Refer to the timetable information on the GMBA website , students can plan their timetable using the new Class Finder tool in eStudent for Live Event session timings. Please note the timetable can be subject to change. See your Coursera unit for a detailed Live Event schedule.

Live Events will take place via Zoom each week starting in Week 1 and ending in Week 6. The links to the events will be active from 10 minutes prior to the scheduled time and are available via Live Events in the left-hand navigation menu in your Coursera unit.

You will need to use your Macquarie University student Zoom account to access the Live Events.

Attending the Live Event each week is an opportunity to engage with the unit content, your Unit Convenor, and classmates. Students are strongly advised to attend the Live Events. Recordings will be made available in the unit contents on Coursera shortly after the event.

Policies and Procedures

Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central (https://policies.mq.edu.au). Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:

Students seeking more policy resources can visit Student Policies (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/policies). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.

To find other policies relating to Teaching and Learning, visit Policy Central (https://policies.mq.edu.au) and use the search tool.

Student Code of Conduct

Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/admin/other-resources/student-conduct

Results

Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit connect.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au

Academic Integrity

At Macquarie, we believe academic integrity – honesty, respect, trust, responsibility, fairness and courage – is at the core of learning, teaching and research. We recognise that meeting the expectations required to complete your assessments can be challenging. So, we offer you a range of resources and services to help you reach your potential, including free online writing and maths support, academic skills development and wellbeing consultations.

Student Support

Macquarie University provides a range of support services for students. For details, visit http://students.mq.edu.au/support/

Academic Success

Academic Success provides resources to develop your English language proficiency, academic writing, and communication skills.

The Library provides online and face to face support to help you find and use relevant information resources. 

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Unit information based on version 2025.01R of the Handbook