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Book SynopsisEssential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students is a comprehensive, one-stop guide to the skills needed to bring you success, both throughout university and in your future career.Covering all the core areas associated with business and management degrees, this text offers a unique focus on employability to guide your development into a future employee who can lead but who is also a team player, who is flexible and creative, well-versed in problem-solving skills, and who is self-aware and resilient under pressure - all skills that employers are looking for in today''s business world.Now in its fourth edition, a new chapter on wellbeing makes this text more relevant than ever. This chapter guides your development of healthy mental and physical resilience, which are needed both at university and in the world of work. The importance of critical reflection is also emphasized by a new ''Stop and Reflect'' feature, which acts as a checkpoint to help you absorb the c
Trade ReviewThis is a practical skills text with a sound theoretical base and activities to unleash students' potential as they face the challenges of the world. * Dr Eric CCK Chan, Regent's University London *
Essential Study and Employment Skills for Business and Management Students is extremely clear, well considered, and covers a very good range and variety of key skills areas, with a very friendly approach. * Joel Arnott, University of Sunderland *
This is a very useful, practical textbook which covers a variety of relevant concepts and skills. It delivers theoretical overviews alongside the opportunity to engage through practical activities. * Dr Epaminondas Koronis, University of Westminster *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the scene: study, workplace, and development skills 1: Developing skills for business and management students 2: Understanding how you learn 3: Time management and personal development planning 4: Communication principles 5: Teamwork skills 6: Reading and searching for information 7: Developing a critical approach 8: Writing essentials: preparation, layout and structure 9: Presentation skills 10: Measurement and management - quantitative data and its presentation 11: Creativity 12: Wellbeing: looking after yourself and others 13: Career preparations
