Essential Skills for Your Career Development
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- LevelIntermediate
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- Duration04 hours
- Last UpdatedMarch 21, 2022
- CertificateCertificate of completion
Description
Learn the professional career development tools to get your career on track
Most people want to achieve career success, but how can you make it a reality?
On this course, you’ll get the tools to take your career to the next level.
Using planning tools, you’ll establish goals for your career and how to achieve them.
You’ll learn how to navigate the process of applying for jobs and interviews, and consider the importance of transferable skills and creating the right professional networks.
You’ll also hear from like-minded individuals who propelled their careers forward using similar career development plans.
Featured in the UK government’s The Skills Toolkit collection.
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What You will learn
- Identify different approaches to growing your career
- Explore a roadmap, vision board for your career path
- Explain your career vision clearly
- Identify key individuals, organizations and platforms for your network
- Develop communications to engage key leads
- Evaluate the impact of your strategy and iterate accordingly
Course Curriculum / Content
Week 1: Defining your career-Welcome
1.1 Welcome to the course (video)
00:001.2 Introduce yourself
1.3 The modern world of work
Week 1: The right path to your ideal job
1.4 What’s the path to your ideal job?
1.5 How you can develop the career you want
1.6 How others have found their ideal job (video)
00:001.7 What’s the best path to take?
Week 1: Choosing the right path
1.8 How to create a vision board (video)
00:001.9 Creating your board
1.10 Identifying your roadmap
1.11 What did you discover about your career aspirations?
Week 1: Goal setting
1.12 Goal setting and value propositions
1.13 Write your goal
1.14 The importance of value proposition (Audio)
00:001.15 Write your value proposition
Week 1: Summary
1.16 Preparing for next week
1.17 Glossary
Week 2: Growing your career-Welcome
2.1 Welcome to Week 2
2.2 Why do you need a network?
Week 2: Building a network
2.3 The network effect
2.4 Approaches to developing your network (video)
00:002.5 What’s the best approach to networking?
2.6 What are your next steps?
Week 2: Building relationships
2.7 Writing excellent CVs and cover letters (Check)
2.8 Using short form communications
2.9 How to speak to people
2.10 How do you like to build relationships?
Week 2: Adapting as you go
2.11 Always be ready to learn
2.12 How did others do it? (video)
00:002.13 Towards your dream job
Week 2: Summary
2.14 Sharing your success
2.15 Test your understanding
2.16 Next steps
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Requirements
- Anyone Can Join this Course
- Proficient in spoken and written English
- See the Technology Requirements for using The Program
- A moderate Internet Speed will take you through the course
- Join the Oriental Career Group Associated with the Course
Target Audience
- This course is designed for people who have digital skills but would like to build confidence in using digital technology in the workplace.
- This may include those studying for A-levels, those who have a degree, or those who want to improve their career prospects.
Material Includes
- University of Leeds are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:
- Unlimited access to this course
- Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes
- Tests to validate your learning
- A PDF certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible
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