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2021/2022

Work Placement

Code: 42998 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4313781 Enterprise Law OT 0 2
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Mónica Perna Hernández
Email:
Monica.Perna@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)

External teachers

Mónica Perna Hernández

Prerequisites

There are no previous requirements.

Objectives and Contextualisation

To achieve knowledge derived from external practices in private companies, professional law firms, Public Administrations, among other collaborating entities, in matters related to business law.

Curricular practices of the academic program of the master's degree.

Competences

  • Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  • Integrate knowledge of the law and of negotiation to make judgments in the business context.
  • Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  • Work in a team to create synergies in the workplace, in a coordinated, cooperative fashion.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  2. Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  3. Interrelate legal principles and negotiation techniques to assess legal matters related to business.
  4. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  5. Work in a team to create synergies in the workplace, in a coordinated, cooperative fashion.

Content

To develop external professional practices in private companies, specialized law firms, Public Administration entities, among others collaborating entities, involves participating in work processes. These practices are certified through a report the activities and functions assigned in the practices by the own student and a report by the supervisor of the company or office where the practices have been carried out, through active learning.

* Any modification will be communicated at the beginning of the course.

Methodology

The projection of the professional practices module points to two axes, on the one hand, being the main axis, the realization of curricular professional practices in companies, law firms or public entities, as in places with new areas of specialization demanded for future professionals in the area of business law, implies participating in the work processes proposed by occupant prior to start the professional practices, where under the supervision of the tutor, students develop the various functions assigned by the occupant regarding the services offered by the occupant, providing the student with direct immersion in the professional business world.

On the other hand, the training sessions in professional orientation are developed, with a vision fully focused on the presence in social networks as a channel of employability, and offering students the essential current tools for access to employment, such as proper preparation of the CV, knowledge of the self-application processes, own undertakings, among others.

The vocational orientation training will be compulsory attendance, its development is fundamentally practical, obtaining after each one of the sessions a concrete result, focused on being a useful tool for professional integration at the end of the master's degree.

As the health situation persiste and due to the online developmentos the master´s degree during the first semester, the professional orientation sessions will be carried out throught Webinar with Teams or other similar platforms, regardless of whether they can be carried out in person in the second semester.

The professional orientation sessions proposed for the academic management 2021/2022 will be carried out in collaboration with the U.A.B. Occupancy Service, through the agreement it has with Barcelona ACTIVA. (UABACTIVA pending to specify dates).

The professional orientation sessions proposed for academic year 2021/2022: SOC - UABACTIVA:

Session I.- Self-motivation. Self-knowledge. Personal brand. Competencies and the image in the Interview. February - 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. approx. (Webinar / Face-to-face). We know each other? What image do we show? Speakers: (To be determined).

Session II.- Training in occupational risk prevention. Situations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. (Webinar). Health and Risk Prevention Area of the UAB. Speaker: (To be determined).

Session III.- The WHAT of the CV. Keys to get an efficient CV. (Webinar). What do we show? And how do we show it?. Speaker: (To be determined).

Session IV- Self-candidacy. Social media. Networking. (Webinar). What are we looking for?. Speaker: (To be determined).

Session V.- Coffee-work / Professional testimonials ALUMNI. May - 4pm to 6pm approx. (Webinar / Face-to-face). PP module closure. Speakers: (To be determined).

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Activities of professional orientation 6 0.24 3, 2, 4, 1, 5
Type: Supervised      
Report of the practices 6 0.24 3, 2, 4, 1
Type: Autonomous      
To carry out the professional tasks 133 5.32 3, 2, 1, 5

Assessment

In the evaluation of the professional practices module, the participation and active involvement will be taken into account, the responsibility in the development of the assigned professional functions, as well as the use of learning, the final grade is the result of the continuous joint evaluation between the entity, collaborating company or law firm and the module coordinator, taking into account the following parameters:

1.- 70% of the grade corresponds to the assessment of the development of the practices and issuance of the final technical report by the tutor assigned to the student for the development of the curricular practices, based on the competences and learning results that the student have acquired at the end of the internship period.

2.- The remaining 30% is evaluated by the module coordinator as indicated below:

a.- 15% of this percentage corresponds to the evaluation of the memory of activities presented by the student at the end of the practices, where it is requested to detail the entire content, functions and assigned tasks of the practical resolution in the work environment during the practice period.

b.- The other 15% corresponds to the activities proposed in the module referring to the professional orientation sessions that are carried out throughout the course where the evaluation criteria are the participation and active involvement and the realization of the proposed activities. At the end of each session, the document prepared or improved will be delivered, according to the indications received from the expert or experts.

During the module, group meetings and individual consultations will be held with the students, in order to identify professional interests, motivations and give permanent follow-up to the development of the curricular practices once started, an intermediate follow-up report is made two weeks after the progress of the practices, in order to assess the suitability of the proper development of these.

Once the professionalpractices module is finished, a date and time will be determined for the revision of the qualifications corresponding to the final evaluation of the module.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Activities of the module of professional practices, follow up 15% 5 0.2 3, 2, 1, 5
Report of the practices 15% 0 0 3, 2, 4, 1, 5
Report of the tutor 70% 0 0 3, 2, 1, 5

Bibliography

Complementary materials referring to the professional orientation training sessions.

CALVO MUÑOZ, Montse; Networking: el uso práctico de las redes sociales, ESIC, 2009.

DOMINGO SAN ANTONIO, Antonio; Networking: El arte de generar negocio, relaciones y oportunidades, Anaya Multimedia2018.

JAMES, Judi; ¡Estás contratado!: consejos y técnicas para superar con éxito las entrevistas de trabajo y encontrar empleo, Paidós , 2011.

RODRÍGUEZ DE LLAURER SANTIMÑA, Marta, Cómo encontrar trabajo hoy: desde la preparación del currículum vitae hasta las entrevistas finales, Profit, 2010.

SÁNCHEZ-ALARCOS, José; Buscar trabajo por Internet: plan de acción en 30 días, estrategia de búsqueda, el currículum online, portales y webs de empleo, consultoras de recursos humanos, networking y redes sociales, alternativas de autoempleo, Global Marketing, 2011.

Plataformas de consulta:

Servicio de Ocupabilidad UAB

https://www.uab.cat/web/servicio-de-ocupabilidad-de-la-uab-1345718609476.html

Barcelona Activa

https://treball.barcelonactiva.cat/index_es.html

Software

The subject does not require any specific software.