Career Design Strategy For Professionals
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What You will learn
- The difference between a job, a career, and a calling, and how to design a professional life that is meaningful and fulfilling.
- How to use your strengths, values, skills, and beliefs as a guide to explore new career directions and decide which path to pursue next.
- Authentic job search strategies that help you make important professional connections and find your next opportunity.
Course Curriculum / Content
Week 1 : Welcome & Foundations of Your Career
Should I follow my passion when choosing a career? What if I’m not up for it? And how do I make enough time to change careers when I’m busy with a full-time job or a family? This first module will answer these questions and orient you to the Career Design Lab.
Learning Objectives
Identify and reframe thoughts and beliefs that hold you back from creating the life and career you want
Define the five elements of wellbeing and see how your current work affects your happiness, meaning, and how engaged you are
Figure out your professional calling and differentiate a calling from a career or job
Implement success skills and habits that will help you complete your career transition with ease
Who is this course for? (V)
04:00How does this course work?
Meet Your Instructor -v
05:00What brings you to this course?
✍️ Get your Design Journal v
08:00Reflection: Nature of Work is Changing
The Story of Three Bricklayers v
04:00Job vs. Career vs. Calling
Overview of the course v
04:00The Big Quit: Is it Time for a Change? v
12:00Reflection: So you want a Calling?
What do we want out of work? v
06:00✍️ WellBeing Batteries Design Journal Activity
Where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep hunger – v
06:00Should you follow your passion? v
07:00Avoid the Pitfalls of “workism” v
04:31Reflection: Managing Your Mind for Success
🐒 Meet your Monkey Mind v
10:00🌈 “What if it’s too late?” (and other thoughts your brain likes)
What are your Monkey Mind’s ‘Greatest Hits’ ?
How to reframe: Shifting your focus v
08:18✍️ Design Journal Activity: Received Beliefs
Reflection: How to Succeed in your Career Design
You’re in the Driver’s Seat v
08:00🌈 Five Essential Career Design Habits
Which Habits do you Want to Work on? v
02:00⏰ Tips for Time Management v
06:00wrap up & Further Reading
Week 2: Using Coherence as a Career Guide
Before you design a career you love, you need to know what you want. This week you’ll do lots of activities that help you write down what’s important to you in a concrete, specific way. You’ll discover your top strengths, virtues, and skills and write short statements about your life philosophy and what it means to do meaningful work. You’ll learn how to use this self-awareness as a “compass” that guides the rest of your career design process.
Learning Objectives
Clearly and succinctly share your top strengths, core virtues, transferable skills, guiding identities, and important beliefs
Use the concept of “coherence” to design a professional life that is meaningful and fulfilling
Seek out work activities that put you in “flow” or a state of total engagement
Be happy by practicing gratefulness, even when you’re facing challenges
Welcome to Week2: Practicing gratefulness v
03:00Mindset Matters: The benefits of Gratefulness v
05:30🌈 Want to be Happy? Be Grateful.
✍️ Gratefulness Design Journal Activity
Don’t Pursue Happiness v
03:15Focus on Coherence Instead v
05:00Coherence Summarized
Who are you? Get to know yourself v
00:00✍️ Core Virtues Design Journal Activity v
06:31✍️ Top Strengths Design Journal Activity
✍️ Guiding Identities Design Journal Activity v
05:30Reflection: whats your believe?
It’s Time to Ask Big Questions v
03:00✍️ Life and Work Philosophy Design Journal Activity
You are here to make a positive difference v
08:00✍️ Theory of Change Design Journal Activity
What Makes you Come Alive? v
04:00“Flow” is Total Engagement v
09:00Energy Resume Design Journal Activity
✍️ Transferable Skills Design Journal Activity
Peer-graded Assignment: ✍️ Coherence Manifesto
How did your Gratefulness Practice go?
👉 Message from your Instructor and Further Reading
Week 3: defining Your Next Career Moves
What career paths are you considering? If you’re feeling stuck, how can you come up with creative new ideas? And once you have some great ideas, how should you decide which to pursue? This week you’ll get a crash course in design thinking and plan out three different professional paths you could take next. Then you’ll learn how to explore those paths through authentic conversations that help you decide what you want while building your professional network.
Learning Objectives
Think of new career ideas when you’re feeling stuck
Create multiple versions of your five-year plan and use these to raise questions that guide your career research
Use informational interviews to decide which career path you want to pursue next
Initiate authentic networking conversations that are fun and help you make important professional connections
Explain the basics of design thinking and apply this approach to designing your career
Welcome to Week Three: crash course in Design Thinking v
03:00😁 Learn to Think Like a Designer v
09:55Tips for Approaching the “wicked problem” of Career Design v
04:00✍️ How to Think Outside the Box v
09:00✍️ Warm up your Brain – Your Three paths v
09:00✍️ Career Brainstorming Design Journal Activity
Why Three Paths are Better Than One v
08:00✍️ Your Three Paths Design Journal Activity
Share your Three Paths
Authentic Networking 101
Putting the Authentic back into Networking v
05:00Two Reasons to do Informational Interviews v
06:00🌈 How to Prototype your Future
Two Ways to get Informational Interviews v
06:00✍️ Informational Interviews Design Journal Activity
IMPORTANT: Schedule Two Informational Interviews v
03:00👉 A Message from your Instructor and Further Reading (Week 3)
Week 4: Strategies for Getting a Job
Week 4 is about strategies for getting a job. This is the last module of the course and it’s packed with helpful strategies for succeeding at your job search. You’ll learn how long your job search should last, how to think like a hiring manager, tips for sites like LinkedIn, and how to approach resumes, interviewing, and salary negotiation like a career designer. At the end of Week 4 we’ll talk about staying focused on what matters and how to make hard choices.
Learning Objectives
Discern when you should shift your focus from exploring options to applying for jobs
Identify effective job application strategies by thinking about the process from the perspective of employers and hiring managers
Stay positive and focused on what’s important to you, especially when you are “in the weeds” with resumes, cover letters, interviews, and salary negotiation
Apply a variety of approaches to confidently make hard choices about which path or job to pursue next
Welcome to Week Four: Set Up Yourself For Success v
06:00✍️ The Keys to a Successful Job Search v
10:37🌈 Your Job Search in 7 Steps
Pursue Possibilities, Not Jobs v
05:31How Long Should your Job Search Last? v
07:00✍️ Your Job Search Timeline Design Journal Activity
A Note for Entrepreneurs and other “free agents” v
05:00How to Empathize with Hiring Managers
Think Like a Hiring Manager v
06:00🌈 Job seekers and employers have different priorities
Look for a Fit, Not a Sale v
04:00The Energy of Money v
10:00🌈 4 Tips for Salary Negotiation
Job Boards Interviews and Resume
Tips for Sites like LinkedIn v
07:00🌈 Checklist for job interviews
🌈 The Advice that Changed How I approach Every Job Interview…
Your Perfect Resume and Cover Letter v
05:38When you are Overwhelmed, Watch This v
06:00🌈 Remy’s Top 10 Resources for the Job Search Process
Discussion: What are your Top Job Search Resources?
Making Hard Choices
A Better Way to do Pros and Cons Lists v
10:19✍️ Decision Matrix Design Journal Activity
The Advantages of Closing Doors v
06:00Should you Listen to your Intuition? v
06:00How to Choose Between Equally Good Options
👉 A Message from your Instructor and Further Reading (Week 4)
Peer-graded Assignment: ✅ Design Journal Gallery
👉A Parting Note from your Professor v
01:56
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Requirements
- Require a decent Internet Speed
- Instructions are in English
- Self Paced study curriculum
- Can be Displayed on Mobile
Target Audience
- Career Changers at any level
- University Students
- Fresh Graduates
- Career Trainers
Material Includes
- Video Lessons
- Recommended Readings
- Work Books
- a community Chat
Description
If your work isn’t fulfilling, now is the time to change direction and design a life you love. This course is for people at any life stage who want a job they enjoy and a career aligned with their values. If you’re languishing at work or feel like quiet quitting is your only option, why not change careers and flourish professionally?
This Couse will guide you through the career design process from start to finish in 4-8 weeks. You will define what is important to you in life, discover your core strengths and values, sketch out several possible career paths, and learn authentic networking strategies to help you find your next professional opportunity. Along the way, you will learn insights from design thinking, positive psychology, and career coaching that will help you maintain a positive mindset and make progress with your job search. If you’re ready to change jobs and change your life, this is the course for you.
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