Designing Your Career (Stanford Uni)

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Description

This online course uses a design thinking approach to help people of any age and academic background develop a constructive and effective approach to designing their vocation. This course is primarily comprised of 5 career-oriented vocational wayfinding concepts, illustrated through videos and expanded through personal reflections and exercises.

Designing Your Career is a class created by the Stanford Life Design Lab that helps individuals design their lives and careers.

Course Staff

John Armstrong, Lecturer and Fellow, Stanford Life Design Lab
Ben Bowman, Stanford Life Design Lab Intern
Kathy Davies, Managing Director, Stanford Life Design Lab
Dave Evans, Co-Founder, Stanford Life Design Lab
Bill Burnett, Co-Founder, Stanford Life Design Lab

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What Will You Learn?

  • The short module is structured to help you take practical steps toward designing your career.
  • It uses a design thinking approach to help people of any age and academic background develop a constructive and effective approach to designing their vocation.
  • This course is primarily comprised of 5 career-oriented vocational wayfinding concepts, illustrated through videos and expanded through personal reflections and exercises.

Course Content

Introduction
Welcome to the Designing Your Career module. Whether you’re exploring what you might want to do next or you’ve already identified a role or organization that you would like to be a part of, this short module is structured to help you take practical steps toward designing your career. It uses a design thinking approach to help people of any age and academic background develop a constructive and effective approach to designing their vocation. This course is primarily comprised of 5 career-oriented vocational wayfinding concepts, illustrated through videos and expanded through personal reflections and exercises. To get started, scroll down...

  • Welcome to Designing Your Career
  • Survey

The Outsider Problem
You will learn about the basics of the career development process, take stock of where you stand and then strategize going forward.

The Informational Interview

The Networking Reframe

Networking Your Way to Job Search Success

The Elevator Conversation

The Offer Search

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