Career plans Education

I am currently a full time student in Rathmines College, Town Hall, Rathmines, Dublin 6. I am studying a one year FETAC level 5 course in Certificate in Secretarial/Office Administration Studies Certification: FETAC level 5 Business Studies Award 5M1997 College Certificate. Course Content: Customer Service, Information and Administration, Text Production, Audio Transcription, Reception and Front Line Office, Spreadsheet Methods, Communications, Work Experience, Language(Optional), Word Processing At the end of this course I am planning to go on and study the Bachelor of Business in Management in Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

What is Business Management?

This full-time four year honours degree course provides an academic qualification for anyone interested in a career in business and management. Its general nature provides the student with a broad skill-base that will ensure that the graduate has a wide range of potential job opportunities. The first two years provide the student with the basics in core business subjects that form a foundation for the remaining two years. After two years, students continue their studies specialising in management, or may transfer to other degrees such as Supply Chain Management and Human Resource Management, International Business and Marketing, which are all available within the School of Business & Humanities. This programme has been designed with maximum flexibility in mind and provides exit points. Students may wish to graduate after two years with a higher certificate or after three years with an Ordinary Degree in Business. This course design reflects many of the initiatives taken in applied management education at this level, including a supervised professional placement, practical modules and applied management studies and it also provides possibilities with the expert knowledge and skills necessary for a successful career at senior management

Bachelor of Business in Management in Letterkenny Institutes

This course offers a general business focus and the development of foundational business competencies for the first two years. Second year also provides the opportunity for studying abroad in Europe or America (Boston) at one of our partner institutions for one semester. Many of our partner institutions in Europe provide their lectures in English. In the third year of the programme the focus is twofold: firstly, towards developing advanced business competencies specialising in the field of management and secondly supporting the transition to the workplace and employment. The final year includes the development of personal and professional employment skills and gives an opportunity to choose between three applied learning options which further support building the connection with real world learning.

Assessment The range of business management disciplines necessary for the

effective management of and/or participation in a business organisation. These include areas such as business strategy, change management, operations and service management, project management, legal and regulatory environment, marketing management, human resource management, decision making, economics, financial management and organisational behaviour. These provide a solid foundation for success in a business career. 'Preparation for business' by developing of a range of specific business knowledge and professional competences relevant to graduate careers in business with the potential for further management positions. Enhancement of lifelong learning skills including personal development to contribute to civic society at large. Lifelong learning skills include the development and enhancement of a range of general transferable learning, intellectual and professional skills, which, while being highly appropriate to a career in business and management, are not restricted to this. This includes the encouragement of improved selfawareness, leadership vision, positive and critical attitudes towards enterprise, change and society in general External environment which encompasses a wide range of factors, including economic, environmental, ethical, legal, political, sociological and technological, together with their effects at local, national and international levels upon the strategy, behaviour, management and sustainability of organisations.

Course Content Modules Year 1

Learning and Communication skills Business Organision and Management Information Technology Introduction to Sociology Language (French, German, Irish, Spanish) Accounting Basic Business Statistics Business Law Language (French, German, Irish, Spanish) Social Technology Project

Modules Year 2
Business Information Systems Marketing Business Communication Language Civic and community Engagement Design Theory Economics Cost accounting Entrepreneurship and Innovation Language Personal Finance Sport Leisure and society

Modules Year 3
Service and Operations Management Legal Issues- Irish and European Financial Management Organisational Behaviour Applied Learning HRM and Employee Relations Applied Marketing Management Personal and Professional Development

Award
Students who have reached the appropriate honours standard have access to area of Masters Degree in Business Management and elsewhere in Higher Education.

What will I study on this programme?

The programme comprises a B. Comm. type framework and has been deliberately structured in this way in recognition of the challenge Leaving Certificate students face in deciding on a specific business career path. Given this structure, students have in effect an additional two years post Leaving Certificate to choose that specialism which is in most in line with their personal strengths and career ambitions respectively. The programme provides a challenging curriculum aimed at developing strong communication, interpersonal, management and leadership skills that have been identified by the Business industry as essential for career success. As also outlined below, students have the option of completing a 16-20 week paid work placement in Year 3 or of studying abroad in one of the programmes 30 partner universities. Placement partners include leading companies in all the key business sectors including Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Information and Communications Technologies and Consultancy. The course provides a broad, analytical and highly integrated study of business organisations (profit and non-profit), their management and the changing external environment and society in which they operate. This can be characterised from three perspectives e.g. Business Organisation, External Environment and Management.

What will I be able to do when I finish this course?

Graduates from this course, will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and competencies that are demanded in a modern business enterprise. The graduate will be qualified to join a management team in a wide range of business settings such as industry, banking, public service, financial services and service industries.

Career opportunities
The Irish economy is undergoing considerable change which presents new challenges and opportunities. The Irish World of Business needs young people with the skills and mindset to drive these new opportunities successfully. Many graduates work for small local companies but some decide to join the graduate training courses of large companies. There is a vast array of positions open to you including: Operations manager Administrative office Trainee manager in retail Personnel officer

Job opportunity
Which the above course that I hope to study it gives me a wide range of different job opportunities in different area.

Study options?

Students may elect to study Year 3 abroad in Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, The Czech Republic and The Netherlands. Some places are also available in Australia, Argentina, Canada, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and the United States. Typically c. 20-25% of students choose to study abroad. Allocation of places is based on module results.

Minimum Academic Entry Requirements

Pass (OD3 or better) in 5 Leaving Certificate subjects, including passes in Mathematics and in either Irish or English (or an equivalent qualification). The minimum points for entry is 140 points.