Graduate Certificate in Human Resources Management

at Canadore College - Stanford Mississauga Campus Canada

Prepare to launch an exciting and rewarding career in the business field. Learn to develop strategic business plans and navigate economic influences affecting the global market through business simulations and working with real clients. Whether you go on to work for yourself or a large corporation, or continue your education, the opportunities are endless.

What You Learn:

• Marketing
• Accounting
• Finance and economics
• Entrepreneurial skills
• Communications and analysis
• Human resources

This one-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate Program prepares graduates for a rewarding career in the field of Project Management. Project Management is a highly sought discipline that involves the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. Project managers are in high demand across all industries. Graduates of the Project Management Graduate Certificate program will learn how to initiate, plan, monitor and control projects through to successful completion. They acquire the competencies to lead diverse project teams within a broad range of sectors in public, private and not-for-profit settings, while applying content-specific knowledge of their previous studies and experiences. Graduates work in leadership positions, developing and monitoring performance measures and adapting to project constraints, while managing communications within and among teams.

What You Learn

• Project planning
• Scheduling and cost management
• Communication management
• Leadership and human relations
• Procurement and contract management
• Quality management

Effective management of your supply chain can give you a competitive advantage in this sophisticated environment.
Customers are demanding flexibility, options, rapid delivery and just-in-time support. Today’s successful supply chain managers must be strategists, able to synchronize every effort involved in the process: planning, sourcing, producing, and delivering a product or service.

Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes represent culminating demonstrations of learning and achievement. In addition, learning outcomes are interrelated and cannot be viewed in isolation of one another. As such, they should be viewed as a comprehensive whole. They describe performances that demonstrate that significant integrated learning by graduates of the program has been achieved.

Mobile devices are everywhere and are used to readily in the business and personal lives of people all over the world. This field is exploding and skilled app developers are in high demand. New applications are being created daily for games, maps, medical applications, banks, media outlets - and the list goes on. Students work hands on with Blackberry, Playbooks, iPads, and Android devices.

What You Learn

• Develop for Blackberry, Apple, and Android mobile devices
• 3D graphics, animation, rich media
• Game development
• Web development for mobile devices
• Marketing and distribution of apps
• Video and audio editing
• AIR, JAVA, iOS

Whether you want to climb the corporate ladder or start a new career in business, finance, or accounting, Canadore's Accounting program provides you with the skills you need. Become a key asset to any business, anywhere in the world.

What You Learn

• Management accounting
• Corporate finance
• Taxation
• Financial management
• Economics
• Excel, spreadsheet modelling

Information Technology is a part of virtually every business and industry. Learn leadership and management skills in this ever-growing and changing industry. As a manager of IT, you will need to plan and organize the activities of your team and deliver IT projects on time and within budget. This innovative program will provide you with highly marketable skills that are sought after across the globe.

What You Learn

• Management fundamentals
• Leadership and communication
• Business process analysis
• Project and risk management
• Procurement and contract management

People are a key resource in businesses, large and small. Learn how industry manages employees for better job satisfaction, staff development, and employee relations in this one-year program. Learn essential human resources functions within the domestic and international business environments like how to facilitate and guide staffing, performance management, training, and health and safety. Gain the skills needed to contribute to organizational development strategies and manage human resources activities of any organization.

What You Learn

• Human resources management and planning
• Corporate training and development
• Mediation skills/conflict resolution
• Labour relations
• Human rights and workplace investigation
• Finance

Civil engineering technicians are highly sought after in a number of industries including construction, mining, transportation, and road construction. This in-demand career has unlimited employment options in both the public and private sectors. Many of the things we use every day are impacted by civil engineering, including dams and power stations, water and sewage treatment plants, roadways, and structures both large and small. This program will provide you with the tools of the trade to be successful in this diverse profession.

What You Learn (2 year)

• Computer-aided drafting and design (CADD)
• – both 2D and 3D
• Surveying and GPS
• Highway/Road design and planning
• Design and construction of infrastructure
• Applied strength of materials

Prepare for an exciting career in this diverse field. This post-graduate program will help you develop the skills to research, analyze, and manage many aspects of business. Gain transferable skills that will make you more employable or give you the skills and knowledge to start your own business in your area of expertise.

What You Learn

• Marketing for managers
• Entrepreneurship
• International business
• Market research
• Finance
• Statistical analysis

Gain skills in writing, editing, concept development, public speaking, presentation, organization and more. As a PR professional you will shape key messaging and communication to positively impact an organization's reputation and profitability through mainstream media and social media. Learn hands-on through real-world projects that will be essential to developing your own personal public-relations portfolio!

What You Learn

• Media relations
• Strategic communications planning
• Crisis communications
• Social media tools and techniques
• Integrated marketing  
• Event management
• Media writing
• Brand management
• Digital analytics