The Professional Diploma Programme
Can you see yourself working in London and in a business environment – Perhaps in a creative industry, such as events, marketing or PR; or in the city, in finance or investment banking? If the answer to these questions is ‘yes’ then The Professional Diploma Programme will be the perfect training programme for you. It has been developed based on the requirements of employers and is fully aligned to the workplace, making you stand out from the crowd by developing you into a fresh, dynamic employee or future leader who will add value to any team.
This unique training programme will maximise your potential as an individual, giving you the confidence, knowledge and essential business skills to enable you to take a direct route into the workplace. At the end of 34 weeks of training, our in-house recruitment consultants arrange a two-week internship for all Quest apprentices, which often develops into full-time employment. A high percentage of Quest graduates secure successful positions at recognised companies within 12 weeks of graduating.
So, if you are looking for a unique and exciting route into a successful career, the Professional Diploma Programme provides plenty of variety and interaction, is great fun and, most importantly, will open up a world of opportunity.
The Professional Diploma Programme Contents:
- Developing yourself and others – identifying learning and working styles
- Understanding team profiles
- Introduction to Transactional Analysis – enhancing your communication skills
- Delivering presentations
- Voice, image, style
- Building a team
- Introduction to leadership
- Opportunity to take the Institute of Leadership and Management qualification
- Understanding the role and function of marketing in business
- Introducing the 7 'Ps' and the marketing mix
- Applied and corporate marketing
- Internal and external customer relationships
- Viral marketing
- Social and digital media
- Opportunity to take the Chartered Institute of Marketing qualification
- Planning, implementation and time management
- Budgets and organisation
- Project Management theory & event evaluation
- Understanding and exploring global financial markets
- Corporate finance and basic accounts
- Key issues in world news and politics
- Developing debating skills
- Personal finance and tax
- Introduction to practical business finance and accounting
- Developing letter writing skills
- Emails, memos, press releases
- Understanding report writing
- Proof reading, grammar, spelling and punctuation for business
- OCR Text Production
Applying IT in a business context
- MS Word (including mail merge and advanced functions)
- MS PowerPoint (and business presentations)
- MS Outlook (and diary management)
- MS Access
- MS Excel (and business finance)
- Travel arrangements & itineraries
- Contributing at meetings; preparing meetings documentation
- Processing expenses
- Complex diary management
- Telephone skills
- Touch typing
- Shorthand
- Audio typing
- Creating and managing an advertising campaign
- Identifying current PR techniques and campaign successes
- Storyboards, press releases and exploring advertising standards
- Delivering an advertising pitch including printed advert and PR campaign
- How journalism works
- Analysing key publications
- Understanding how articles are commissioned
- Understanding the key range of industries and companies in each sector
- Identifying relevant skills and experience
- "Sector Tasters" – activities to understand skills and approaches in business
- Exploring case studies of key businesses and creating solutions to business problems
- Applying business strategies in the workplace
- "Mock work" scenarios
- Prioritising daily business tasks in order to meet deadlines and team requirements
- Exploring your strengths and weaknesses
- Matching your skills to possible job roles
- Understanding job adverts
- Analysing industries and companies
- Producing targeted CVs
- Covering letter and application formats
- Interview preparation
- Competency-based interview techniques
- Personalised career action plan
- Contracts, salaries, tax and employment law
- Introduction to selected recruitment agencies
A wide range of trips and professional talks
Upon successful completion of the 34 weeks, students progress to a two-week internship at a recognised company within Central London, arranged through Quest.
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Start Dates
The Professional Diploma Programme
Entry Requirements
The Professional Diploma Programme
Professional and exam charges
Chartered Institute of MarketingPaid directly by student (currently £245)
Institute of Leadership & ManagementPaid directly by student (currently £75)
OCR/other public examinationsInvoiced by Quest in the final term of all 24 and 36 Week courses
To see the dates that the courses start on and the course fees, please visit the Dates & Fees page:
Dates & Fees