Are you developing your skills in the right direction? This edition highlights a number of opportunities to enhance your academic, professional, personal and employability skills to enable you to manage your studies and career path more effectively.

Student Development Team

Marketing celebrate their stars

The Monash Marketing Awards for Excellence (MMAE) is a prestigious event which recognises top performing students across units and degrees at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In its 38th year, the MMAE stands as one of the most celebrated events in the Department of Marketing calendar, creating a direct link between Monash marketing students, Monash staff and industry professionals.
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Monash Economics in the news

During 2010 Rebecca Valenzuela, Department of Economics, will be writing regular articles to The Age's on-line education supplement. View her first article "Out of the crisis: picking up the pieces".

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Orientation a winner

Our Buseco Orientation days for full-time and part-time students and the popular orientation workshop program provided a great start for our new postgraduate students. Are you a workshop winner? Missed orientation? The presentations, and our Faculty Orientation Guide and orientation quicklinks are now available online.
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Get the academic edge

Finetune your academic skills with our FREE ADEPT academic workshops: academic writing in English, stucturing an academic essay, managing reading and note-taking, how to avoid plagiarism - integrating sources into text, writing a case study report.
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MPA sponsored seminars - Caulfield campus

MPA also offers a range of seminars including: understanding and using assignment writing guidelines, academic Saturday for part-timers, writing applications with impact, giving effective seminar presentations, time management for postgraduate students.
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Are you a Career Professional looking for Professional Development?

Creating a Personal Plan for success - Success is no accident! Do you have a fully integrated plan to guide you in creating the life you desire? (Saturday 13 March)

Relationship Management for Managers - Do you have or expect to have formal responsibilities for both internal and business to business relationship management? If so, do you have a structured approach to how you manage these relationships? (Saturday 20 March)

Our FREE Saturday one-day workshops are aimed at the career professional (with 5 years plus work experience).
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Monash Business Career Series @ Slade

Aimed at our postgraduate part-time students who work full-time, the Monash Business Career Series @ Slade is a 2-hour career workshop series offered during the July break at their city location from 5.30pm-7.30pm.

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Get connected at the Career Network Portal

Your gateway to leveraging your personal, university and professional networks to achieve your career outcomes. More than  761 Business and Economics postgraduate students have joined and uploaded 547 resumes.  These resumes have been viewed 2965 times!!!  This worthwhile networking opportunity provides you with a competitive edge in the market place by accessing the hidden job market!
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Outshine the competition

Monash University Employment and Career Development are now on Facebook! Find out about the latest offerings: employer information sessions aimed at Business and Economics students, career seminars and workshops, online career videos, search for jobs on the careers gateway, and more!
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Networking for Career Success

Our Connect Program is focused on developing the skills and confidence required to connect and collaborate with your mentor and people of like minds - your network, to remain top of mind. You will learn how to connect with people of like minds to build and strengthen your relationships, advised on strategies and approaches to enhance capability, influence, perspective, performance and value.

Expressions of interest now open for a three-workshop series commencing in April 2010.
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Trends in online marketing 2010 - Marketing Connections business breakfast

A great networking opportunity for Buseco postgraduate students, hosted by Michael Valos, Chair Monash Marketing Alumni and Department of Marketing. Friday 19 March 2010, 7.30-9.30am - Zinc @ Federation Square

Michael Valos's 2010 research into marketers’ use of online marketing and media has shown a rising maturity since his 2008 study. A certain maturity has occurred in some aspects of blending the new technologies into existing approaches to marketing strategy and marketing communications. However a number of challenges still exist. These appear due to continued rapid evolution of technologies as well as changing consumer behaviour.

The three speakers, from McCain Foods, NAB and FirstClick, represent industry and role diversity, being at the forefront of digital technology for a number of years.
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MPA Postgraduate Coffee Club at Caulfield campus

Finding postgraduate study a little more isolating than you thought? It doesn’t have to be. Come along to the postgraduate coffee club. This is a great opportunity to meet other postgraduates from all over the globe, exchange ideas and build some invaluable networks.
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Volunteer Gateway launched

The new Monash Volunteer Gateway lists opportunities for students to volunteer within the University as well as with student-run and external not-for-profit organisations.  Volunteering is a great way to make a contribution to the University and the wider community, as well as develop skills and social and professional networks.
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Get SMART

Maximise your academic outcomes! These FREE 1-hour lunchtime SMART sessions include: strategies for success, time management, managing procrastination, stress management, and exam stress busters.
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Need Support?

Our counsellor is available for free one-on-one counselling. Counselling can be useful for dealing with minor concerns as well as more serious or longstanding problems.
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Are you looking to broaden your advancement horizons?

Looking for clarity in defining your career path? Need to pay attention to your own personal development? Feel the need to develop and enhance your career? GSB9003 Personal Development - Professional Advancement will help you define your career path.
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Add the IT factor to your Monash degree

Elective units give students the opportunity to select subjects from another faculty. Enhance your degree by either completing a specialisation in Information Technology management, consider further study of a particular IT discipline such as Business Systems or units such as Project management or eBusiness.
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Like to access the postgraduate lounge H building?

Are you a new Buseco postgraduate student? You need to register online to gain swipe card access to the Caulfield campus postgraduate facilities, including the Postgraduate Lounge located at level, H building.
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Google applications for students

Monash University students are now enjoying Google Applications including Google mail, calendar and Google docs - a great tool for collaborating.
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Publication of Student Development Office, Student Services Group, Faculty of Business and Economics

You have received this email as you are a Faculty of Business and Economics postgraduate student.