Promoting Business Collaborations for XAMK students’ thesis : Business Network Management and Recruitment Management Approach
Pham, Thao (2018)
2018
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020091420432
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020091420432
Tiivistelmä
Networking is a challenge not only for professionals but also for beginners. Networking skills has all kinds of application such as to search for supply and distribution partners, employment, B2B transactions. In this thesis, networking is focused as a necessary skill and challenges for students when finding business collaborations for theses.
When writing thesis, it is understandable that students wish to make their research outcomes more applicable and beneficial for organisations. But in reality, not every student succeed in finding business commission. In South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK), specialized personnel are assigned to manage the business network and coordinate businesses-students relationships. Therefore, when research about suggestions to improve businesses and students relationship’s connectivity, XAMK business partnership coordinators is one of the main influencers, as well as students’ perspective.
The thesis reviews previous research literatures about business networks, managing business network, social networks and recruitment management. It also employs quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to obtain data from chosen related research subjects, which are XAMK business partnership coordinators and XAMK students. Even though the students’ survey has low response rate, students’ opinions are summarised and analysed. In the end, four proposals are drawn and concluded. The proposals are an early thesis-wishes questionnaire, a controlled Linkedin group, an Internship program at XAMK and an infographic instruction. These proposals are the solution to the discovered problems such as the shortage on personnel, students’ bad estimation on how to find business collaborations and students’ lack of effective channels to network. Moreover, business partnership coordinating process and the roles of main research subjects are studied.
When writing thesis, it is understandable that students wish to make their research outcomes more applicable and beneficial for organisations. But in reality, not every student succeed in finding business commission. In South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (XAMK), specialized personnel are assigned to manage the business network and coordinate businesses-students relationships. Therefore, when research about suggestions to improve businesses and students relationship’s connectivity, XAMK business partnership coordinators is one of the main influencers, as well as students’ perspective.
The thesis reviews previous research literatures about business networks, managing business network, social networks and recruitment management. It also employs quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to obtain data from chosen related research subjects, which are XAMK business partnership coordinators and XAMK students. Even though the students’ survey has low response rate, students’ opinions are summarised and analysed. In the end, four proposals are drawn and concluded. The proposals are an early thesis-wishes questionnaire, a controlled Linkedin group, an Internship program at XAMK and an infographic instruction. These proposals are the solution to the discovered problems such as the shortage on personnel, students’ bad estimation on how to find business collaborations and students’ lack of effective channels to network. Moreover, business partnership coordinating process and the roles of main research subjects are studied.