Career management

Brief description

  • Assessment of own skills, interests, values and desired work conditions,
  • Application materials and Interview,
  • HR specific career paths,
  • typical HR positions and roles within HR career paths,
  • selected topics related to careers

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Recommended literature:
1) Bolles R. N. (2012). Durchstarten zum Traumjob. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.
2) Hesse J. & Schrader H. C. (2014). Bewerbungsstrategien für Hochschulabsolventen. Hallbergmoos: Stark.
3) Citrin, J.M. (2015). The Career Playbook: Essential Advice for Today's Aspiring Young Professional. New York: CROWN Business.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Group Work and Presentation, Self reflection, Roleplay with Feedback, Lecture.

Assessment methods and criteria

  • Assessment of own skills, interests, values and desired work conditions
  • Group work + presentations of assigned topics related to career management
  • Preparation, execution and reflection of a role play (job interview)
Each segment has to be assessed positive (in total 3 reflection assignments)
Overall Course Assessment ""Successfully Completed"" or ""Unsuccessfully Completed"""

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Infos

Degree programme

Work Design & HR Management (Bachelor)

Cycle

Bachelor

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Part-Time

Academic year

2025

Semester

4 SS

Incoming

Yes

Learning outcome

Upon successful course completion, students will be able to,

  • come up with an overview of their own skills, interests, values and desired work conditions,
  • review their own application material and prepare for an interview from an interviewee's perspective,
  • distinguish between different HR career models and paths
  • assign HR positions and roles to typical HR career paths,
  • reflect on contemporary trends in career management

Course code

0582-15-01-BB-DE-33