ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
GEP0301	Innovative Career Development	Fall	3	0	3	4

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	GE-Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Assoc. Prof. HATİCE NECLA KELEŞ
Course Lecturer(s):	Assoc. Prof. HATİCE NECLA KELEŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	To support students to look at theirselves deeply before their graduation, examine the concept of entrepreneurship and e-entrepreneurship, determine students’ enterpreneurship tendencies and designate SMART goals. Examine the effects of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 on human resource practices, examine automated jobs and professions. Inform students about “VisualCV” and “videorecruit” which are the favorite tools of digital human resources management. Bring close together the students with both different sector employees and successful entrepreneurs to listen their experiencing about business life.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- Designs alternative career ways that will suits his/her needs.
- Discovers his/her values, strong and developable attitudes.
- Express and comments topic of arguments.
- Listens and observes the others ( Student, guest speakers and instructor)
- Collaborates and becomes partners with his/her friends on sector researchs ,
job applications etc.
- Develops office skills (establishing effective relation, networking etc.) that are
required in business life.

Course Content

With the effect of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 to human resource practices, career-oriented personal development and communication methods are taught by examine the automated jobs and professions.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	From back to future examine the concepts career, job and profession.	Course notes
2)	Personal career planning process	Course notes
3)	Definition SMART Goal	Course notes
4)	Personal SWOT Analysis	Course notes
5)	Effects of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 to human resource practices	Course notes
6)	Business life in the future; automated jobs and professions
7)	Writing CV and/or VisualCV, examine samples from diferent professions	Course notes
8)	Videorecruit and practice	Course notes
9)	Online recruitment, national and global samples	Course notes
11)	Entrepreneurship and E-Entrepreneurship, national and global samples.	Course notes
12)	Entrepreneurship tendency and vocational typologies.	Course notes
13)	Managers views about digital transformation and Industry 4.0 effects on career management and presentations	Course notes
14)	Managers views about digital transformation and Industry 4.0 effects on career management and presentations	Course notes

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Richard Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. Emily Anderson, Job Hunting: The Insider's Guide to Job Hunting and Career Change: Learn How to Beat the Job Market, Write the Perfect Resume and Smash it at Interviews, 2017,
References:	MÜSİAD (2010). Girişimcinin Yol Haritası, İstanbul: MÜSİAD Yayını. Drucker, Peter F. (2002). The Discipline of Innovation, Harvard Business Review.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	1	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Presentations / Seminar	1	15	15
Midterms	1	15	15
Final	1	20	20
Total Workload			92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works.	2
2)	Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies.	1
3)	Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events.	1
4)	Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa.	3
5)	Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches.	2
6)	Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating.	2
7)	Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form.	3
8)	Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence.	1
9)	Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments.	2
10)	Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues.	3