News Archive
In these pages, you will find past stories of importance relating to the Deakin Graduate School of Business, its postgraduate courses and its staff. Current news can be found under the heading Current news. We hope you find this section interesting and informative.
MBA Professional Development Series
The MBA Professional Development Seminar, held at the Deakin University Melbourne City Centre on 23 September, was a great success and very well attended.
The seminar was delivered by Peter Boyer, Journalist and Presenter for Al Gore's Climate Project, Tristan Edis, Research Fellow, Energy - Grattan Institute and Peter Sharpe, Manager, Sustainable Sourcing, Group Corporate Affairs - ANZ on the topic 'The climate of business: Perspectives from three sectors'.
More Alumni seminars are planned for the year ahead, so engage with the Deakin University Alumni Community and stay connected with Deakin.
2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award for Professor Jon Billsberry
Congratulations to Jon Billsbury who has been awarded a 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management. Of the 1236 people who reviewed for the division this year, the Division selected only 119 to receive this honour.
The Academy of Management encourage all of their reviewers to provide constructive and developmental feedback on each submission - regardless of whether the submission is likely to appear on the program. To ensure that they are meeting their objective of providing high quality feedback, they ask submitters to assess the quality of the reviews that they received. The Academy of management also track the number of reviews completed, the timeliness of the reviews, and the amount of feedback provided to authors. While they have many talented reviewers working for the OB Division, Jon was rated as a reviewer who provided exceptionally high quality feedback and performed exceptional service by reviewing a large number of papers
Deakin MBA profiled on MBAheadhunter website
MBAheadhunter is a professional networking and recruitment online platform for MBA's to promote their career. As part of their 30th MBA anniversary celebrations, the Graduate School of Business is the first graduate school in Australia to sponsor students and alumni participation in the website. The platform allows MBA's to present their profile - along with a CV and video recordings, to recruiters worldwide. Recruiters, pay to gain access to this database where MBA's are profiled.
Current Deakin Master of Business Administration (International) student, Joanna Kelton has been chosen to be 'Candidate of the Month' on the MBAheadhunter homepage. Joanna completed her online PostMAT interview which is a soft-skills interview designed to highlight the unique soft-skill characteristics of each individual MBA. This means local and global recruiters are now able to view her interview and connect with her.
More information can be found on our website or on the MBAheadhunter website.
