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Preparing your application and work experience documents

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Monash Graduate School of Business programs that require work experience include:

  • Executive Certificate in Business
  • Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management
  • Graduate Diploma in Management
  • Graduate Diploma in Workplace and Industrial Relations
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) and all double degrees with the MBA
  • Master of Marketing for career professionals
  • Master of Marketing on-line
  • Master of Human Resource Management
  • Master of Management
  • Master of Workplace and Industrial Relations
  • Master of Taxation

To adequately demonstrate your experience please ensure that you have outlined your job title, the company name and department, the duration of your tenure and the type (e.g. full time, part-time, casual) and a description of the tasks you were responsible for, including budget size and the number of people who reported directly to you.

Relevant work experience

You will be assessed on your relevant work experience. For example, for the Master of Marketing, you will need to demonstrate two years of marketing, sales, promotions, retailing, or advertising experience.

For the Master of Business Administration, you will need to demonstrate two years, but preferably four years, of professional or managerial experience. Managerial experience is when you have worked as a supervisor of staff, and professional experience includes those jobs such as auditors, accountants, lawyers or similar positions where you work at a high level but don't necessarily supervise staff.

Master and Graduate Diplomas in the Management, Human Resource Management and Workplace and Industrial Relations programs require a minimum of two years full-time work experience or equivalent (e.g. four years working 20 hours per week).

The Master of Taxation requires relevant work experience in the area of taxation.

You will need to demonstrate six years of mid-to-higher level expereince to apply for the Executive Certificate in Business.

Things to include are:

Your achievements - not only do you need to describe your duties, but you need to describe your acheivements. Things such as improvements or innovations you have implemented, and challenges you have overcome as part of your job.

Your career progression - we need to be able to see how you have moved from your first job to your current job.

Tell us a bit about your organisation - the type of organisation, the marketplace, number of employees, and your role.

ie: .." I work for MousePad Technologies who are the second largest producers of mouse pads in Australia. MousePad employ 550 people in Melbourne, and another 100 around Australia. MousePad make $20 million in profit per annum, and are increasing marketshare by 5% each year. My role at MousePad is the Australian Divisional Sales Manager, and I am directly responsible for 7 State Sales Managers and their teams, and I manage a budget of AU$3 million per year."

Template to organise your work experience

For the MBA, Human Resources, Workplace and Industrial Relations, and Management degrees you can use this work experience template, however this is not a compulsory document.