Placements provide the ideal opportunity for students to delve into a wide array of real-life world problems and challenges and apply a hands-on approach on successfully dealing with them.
This module offers four streams of placement:
External work-placement
Students are expected to apply for and secure a placement within an external organisation in a business role of an appropriate standard. Students work in this business role for approximately 6 months and, in doing so, perform various duties and roles depending on the nature of the placement and the employers’ needs. This provides the students with the opportunity to work for organisations, view from the inside the organisational structure, routine and real-life problems a company faces on a standard basis and contribute to the successful functioning of the company.
Internal work-placement with USW Business Clinic
Students will also have the option of securing a business Analyst role within the USW Business Clinic, the Business School’s consultancy division, where they will carry out a clinic-based consultancy project for a client company. A large range of projects are identified each year and students will be matched against these projects based on their interests, specialism and requirements of the client.
Internal work-placement on start-up entrepreneurship
The Enterprise Project offers the students the opportunity to delve into the development of their own start-up idea. This placement strand lies in research-led critical practice and team-coaching which are used to support the development of both individual self-directed learning and team/social learning necessary for the successful development of creative thinking and entrepreneurial capacities in an organisational context.
Internal work placement: online business simulation
Students will be able to join an online business simulation in teams. The simulation will offer them the opportunity to apply their knowledge, approaches and skills in leading and managing a global corporation, making strategic decisions in terms of investments in new markets, marketing campaigns, financial management and so on. The goal is that students will have a full-fledged opportunity to work in a global company and apply their skills and knowledge in a challenge-based framework, reflect and learn from their decisions, the outcomes of their decisions and the feedback provided by the company running the simulation software.