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During the COVID-19 pandemic many students undertaking professional placements and internships had to leave their physical place of employment due to restrictions. Some students doing professional experiences lost their placement, while others entered work arrangements where they worked online remotely. This paper investigates the potential advantage from their experiences in terms of now being more capable in online work skills due to remote working, as the professional world potentially moves to a more flexible working arrangement that may include a remote working environment mixed with an office environment. It investigates, through a case study methodology analysing assessment content from student experiences, the type of new professional purpose that may evolve as a result of a changing workforce environment.

Employability has become an important focus for graduates and employers in Australia, as many universities contend with the notion of developing knowledgeable and problem-solving graduates who are workforce ready practitioners. This paper presents an example of how the higher education communication disciplines from across Victoria, Australia, have developed a forum that allows graduating students to engage directly with industry leaders to better prepare for the leap from higher education to professional employment in the communication and media sectors. This national award-winning education forum brings multi-institutional student groups, recent graduates, academics, and industry practitioners and leaders together in order to aid the development of student skills in areas such as: networking, job application, time management, and effective work habits.

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Management ideology has evolved over the years and has moved from a manager-worker relationship to a business-society relationship. This has led to key stakeholders for organizations to come from diverse perspectives, and has changed the focus for stakeholder relations. This paper looks at literature on management to identify the range of stakeholders, and how these stakeholders' relationships are best managed by the modern organization.Key Words: Stakeholder Relationships, Management, Public Relations IntroductionThis selective literature review paper will analyse contemporary literature in relation to the business-society relationship and the roles stakeholder management plays in this relationship. It also reviews the responsibility for stakeholder relationship management and the role the public relations profession has in this strategic process. The paper compares the evolution of management theories and philosophies to identify key stakeholders for organizations and the key considerations to effectively managing these relationships.