Professional and Enterprise Development

PDT CT105-3-2

Introduction
Level 2
 Learning Outcomes

• Introduces fundamental skills and knowledge for

professional employment
• Critically reflect and evaluate personal development
and career needs
• Make personal, career action plans and apply
recruitment skills as appropriate
• Explain the organizational
context where professional
work occurs which includes
management, finance,
Human Resource, team working
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 Learning Outcomes

• Explain the legal context, law and principles

applicable to professional computing
• Explain professional bodies, codes of conduct
and professional ethics

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 Professional, Enterprise and Personal
Development
• Professional Development
Specialized training, formal education or advanced professional
learning to help professionals improve their professional
knowledge, competence, skill and effectiveness
• Enterprise Development
Creation or redevelopment of new/existing enterprises. The
critical success factors of any enterprise development strategy
are the viability of the business ideas or strategy behind the
enterprise development activity
• Personal Development
Activities that improve awareness, identity, develop talents and
potential, build human capital, facilitate employability, enhance
quality of life and contribute to the realization of aspirations
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 Why PDT Now

• Early exposure, early training for the rest of the

higher education period
• Preparation for immediate Internship and long term
employment
• Beef up your CV with employability skills
• Final year too busy with FYP, exams, in-course
assessments

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 Contents
Week 1: Introduction
• Overview
• Assessment
Week 2: Employability Skills
• Job skills
Week 3: Career Portfolio
• CV and Cover Letter
Week 4: Career Element
• Personal Branding
• VBC
Week 5: Organizational Culture
• Type of culture
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Week 6: Organizational Practice
• On-boarding, Mentoring
Week 7: Critical Work Skills
• Teamwork, Critical Thinking skills
Week 8: Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial traits
Week 9: Ethics
• Ethics
Week 10: Professional Issues
• Ethics and professional issues
Week 11: Computer and Internet Crime
• Computer security issues
Week 12: Summary
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 Module Assessment

In-course Assessment: Assignment 100%

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 The Nature of Higher Education
• Learning Skills
Requires independent learning and research
– Learning to think, evaluate, apply and find new
ways of doing things
– Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Communication Skills
– Able to present, demonstrate knowledge, write well
• Working with Others
– Group work, project and time management
• Ability to undertake Independent Studies
• Academic Writing and Harvard Referencing
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 What is Expected of You

• Observe good
learning etiquette
– Punctuality and
respect
– Use of electronic
devises
– Attendance
• Timely submission
of all work (be it the
assessment or the
tutorial exercises)
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 Reference Books

Reference
1.CV Creator - How to Write a CV That Gets Results:
Create your best ever CV, cover letters and personal
statement. Jules Halliday (2017). 2nd Ed. ISBN-13:
9781788570053
2. Ethics in Information Technology by George W.
Reynolds (2015). 5th Ed. Cengage Learning. ISBN-13:
9781285197159
Further Reading
Organization Theory and Design by Richard L. Daft
(2016). 12th Ed. Cengage Learning ISBN-13: 978-
1305629943
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 Academic Support

1. Consultation Hour – please do not email your

assignment to your lecturer. Address your assignment
clarifications in class or during consultation hours

2. E-Mail

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 Question and Answer

Q&A

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