Business Communication Simternship™

Prepare, Practice, Peer Review, Present Professionally

Give your students a hands-on learning experience with professional communication skills for any step of their career.

Business Communication Simternship Round Breakdown

Round One - Pre Job Application

Round Two - Job Post Analysis

Round Three - Resume & Cover Letter

Round Four - Preparations (Interview Question Prep)

Round Five - Interview & Thanks

Round Six - Professional Interactions & Reputations w/Career Coach

Round Seven - Training & Onboarding w/Buhi

Round Eight - Taylor Unleashed

Round Nine - Construct Proposal

Stukent Simternships™ — Redefine Business Education

Redefine hands-on education with a Stukent Simternship™! A Simternship goes beyond your average business simulation, giving your students the opportunity to put the concepts you’re teaching them to work.

A Stukent Simternship packs months of role-specific training into a single semester. Your students will step into real-world positions, allowing them to gain experience, master marketable skills, increase their knowledge retention, and yes, even make mistakes in a low-risk environment.

With Stukent Simternships, your students get a powerful, resume-worthy experience, while you get a hassle-free semester. Talk to a Stukent course consultant today to see how a Simternship can transform your classroom!

More Engaging Helpful Applicable Resources

Engaging

Students explore how to become proficient business professionals through hands-on activities.

Helpful

Students learn about current industry jobs that relate to the principles they are learning.

Applicable

Students can apply learning to their classwork, internships, or jobs the next day.

Prepare your students for professional and personal success at any point in their career with...

The Business Communication Courseware Bundle

Stukent bundles include:

  • Hundreds of instructor and student resources
  • First-in-the-world simulations
  • Continuously updated courseware

All Stukent bundles are designed to make teaching a cohesive experience from start to finish, while conveniently saving you and your students time. 

Bundles include the Simternship and courseware that work hand-in-hand to provide an engaging learning experience. 

The up-to-date foundational theory and real-world experience is a powerful combination to prepare students to be successful in the growing job market.

Table of Contents*

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Understanding Business Communication
Chapter One – Business Communication
Chapter Two – Business Writing Process
Chapter Three – Workplace Messaging Strategies

Finding Employment
Chapter Four – The Job Search
Chapter Five – The Employment Interview

Communicating in the Workplace
Chapter Six – Professional Behavior
Chapter Seven – Nonverbal Communication
Chapter Eight – Intercultural and Team Communication

Performing Your Job
Chapter Nine – Electronic & Digital Communication
Chapter Ten – Business Meetings
Chapter Eleven – Business Presentation Design
Chapter Twelve – Business Presentation Delivery
Chapter Thirteen – Letters, Memos, Reports, Proposals

*Content is subject to change 

Assignments in every chapter give
students real-world practice

Real job titles in every chapter so students can plan their own supply chain career

Written by an author in industry and academia for the most relevant supply chain courseware on the market

About the Author

Danaka Porter, M. ENG.

Danaka Porter, M. ENG.

Danaka obtained her Master of Engineering from MIT in systems and supply chain which is just a fancy way of saying algorithm writing and process optimization. She is a partner at iota consulting, a management consulting firm, where she works in supply chain, project management, and data analytics in heavy manufacturing and technology.

Her work often includes ensuring the Navy and Coast Guard vessels have the correct gear, writing predictive algorithms for oil and gas companies, or optimizing the supply chain of a global mine. Danaka is also a sessional lecturer at the Dhillon School of Business, where she teaches supply chain and project management.

Danaka is a cofounder and the COO of VitaNova Tech, a fertility company. She wrote the algorithms to better match surrogates and egg donors with intended parents. 

Additionally, Danaka is completing her Ph.D. in cardiology at the Cumming School of Medicine, where she is using machine learning to help predict sudden cardiac death (SCD) by rewriting the algorithms used to find certain markers. Danaka sits on the Training and Education committee for the Cardiac Arrhythmia Network of Canada, where she educates Ph.D.s, trainees, doctors, and health care workers in implementing and using technology in cardiac care.

She also sits on the board of motionball, a national fundraising committee dedicated to raising money for the Special Olympics. She looks after a variety of animals as an animal foster parent for her local Humane Society. Danaka routinely mentors high school and university students, helping them to find their passions. She is also an educational counselor with MIT, where she works with admissions to find the best applicants that align with MIT’s mission. She is a certified coach and helps those she works with to achieve their goals and dreams

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