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During this program, I found that most courses focused on this particular capability. The main focus of most courses (if not all) was ensuring that students reflect on their knowledge in any piece of assessment task or tests. Most business courses were test-based or assignments that are based on materials discussed in lectures and in textbooks, such as Macroeconomics1, Business Statistics, Commercial Law, Prices and Markets and Marketing Principles. Although these courses were not quite relevant to the Information and Knowledge Management area, but I have enjoyed studying them. In fact, they were the main motivation to study as all those courses were challenging, and I believe that being aware of the different business areas is always an advantage. I believe that achieving this capability will help me in my career and future studies to reflect and take responsibility for my actions to constantly improve the quality of my work. = = =Professional Practice1=

This course was one of the final 5 courses I undertook in the final semester of my tertiary education. Although I had so much confusions when I first started studying this course, due to this course being very different from all other courses I had undertaken, and I didn't yet know what we were expected to do and how we were required to reflect on our tertiary journey. But the academics of this course made every effort to make sure that all students understood the requirements of this course. I made sure that I stayed in touch with the tutor and ask questions in every tutorial and seminar. In this course, I felt that all the skills I was lacking during the early stages of my tertiary education have clearly shown in this course and in the other final courses for the final semester. Things like considering my questions basic, not interacting in class, hesitating to email academics were all my main weaknesses. This course helped me look at my 3 year experience at RMIT and reflect on how much I have actually learnt without realising. It helped me realise how much skills I have gained whether IT skills, interpersonal or social. Looking at each capability of the IKM program and what subjects helped me achieve each capability, I learned to take responsibility for my actions and reflect on how things could have been done better. I believe this will help me greatly not only in my future career, but my future plans of continuing to study. This course has helped me have a clear idea of what next I need to do after graduating. Before enrolling in this course, I had no idea what I wanted to do after graduation, but one of the assessment tasks was developing a 5-year career plan. I gave this assessment task so much time and effort to plan my next 5 years after graduating from RMIT. This course also helped me find useful organisation to join as a member, such as OneUmbrella, ALIA and many more. Also, as part of the tasks we were assessed on was attending two different events and write a 500 word report on each. For this task, I attended a document management system event organised by IIM (Institute of Information Management) which I personally didn't find very helpful. And the second one was organised by RMIT to give new graduates tips about CVs and job interviews. I found this event very helpful as I learned more about what employers actually look for in a CV and in an interview. Hence, I can conclude that without this course, I wouldn't have thought of looking for networking opportunities or join events like the Interview Skills one, and wouldn't have realised how much I have actually learnt studying this degree.


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