Entrepreneurship as a Part of Career
Join this online course to learn about the earning potential of the platform economy, accounting, identifying your own expertise and commercializing your own expertise.
Kaikille aloille soveltuva (monialainen), Kauppa, hallinto ja oikeustieteet
Aikataulutettu verkko-opiskelu
Toteutusaika: 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2024
278 paikkaa jäljellä
Ilmoittautumisaika: 02.08.2024 - 29.12.2024
0,00 €
Tutkinto, johon opinto kuuluu Laureassa: Complementary competence, bachelor's studies in English (CCC2), Generic Studies
Koulutuksen laajuus: 5 opintopistettä
Pääasiallinen opetuskieli: englanti
Koulutuksen taso: AMK
Sijainti: Laurea Verkkokampus
Ilmoittautumistilanne: 0 / 100
Tietoa koulutuksesta
This course has five different parts:
- Future working life (1 cr) Aim of the module: The student understands the main forces of change in working life and especially its entrepreneurial nature. The student perceives the diversity of entrepreneurship and gets a good understanding of different forms of entrepreneurship and their challenges.
- Platform Economy (1 cr) Aim of the module: The student gets a comprehensive understanding of the different forms of platform economics and their possibilities from the perspective of earning additional income. After the course, students are able to choose the most suitable platforms for their own competence.
- Identification of one’s own competence (1 cr) Aim of the module: The module challenges students to reflect on and identify their own skills and to compare them with the skills needs needed in future working life. After this reflection, the student gets a clear picture of what competencies should be developed on a personal level in order to enable the desired career path.
- Freenlace Entrepreneur Accounting (1 cr) Aim of the module: The student understands the basics of accounting and cash management. Based on this competence, students understand the importance of personal hourly accounting as part of the pricing of their own competence or product. The purpose of the module is to provide practical instructions for calculating the price of a student’s own company (service / product).
- Commercialization of one’s own competence (1 cr) Aim of the module: The student understands the basics of sales work, understands the importance of sales work in terms of being an entrepreneur and learns to perceive one’s own abilities in a possible sales or customer service situation.
The student is able to:
- Analyze the key driving forces of the working life and describe their entrepreneurial nature
- Categorize and identify the most suitable business platforms for their own skills
- Classify their personal entrepreneurial characteristics and compare them to the competence requirements needed in future working life
- Compile a personal hourly log and understand its importance as part of pricing and self-management
- Analyze the fundamental elements of successful sales work
Everyone interested in the topic.
You can complete this free online course at your own pace by December 31th, 2024, and you can start it at any time. The course does not include scheduled teaching and the course uses the Canvas learning platform.
- Wallenstein J, de Chalendar A, Revees M, Bailey A (2019) The New Freelancers – Tapping Talent in the Gig Economy, Boston Consulting Group tutkimusraportti
- Other material to be declared on the Canvas platform.
Please familiarize yourself with the cancellation process and cancellation terms.