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Adapting: Career Development SpecializationMacquarie University

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Are you satisfied with your career? Where do you see yourself in the future? No matter where you are on your professional journey, careful planning will help you reach your goals. This course will help you adapt to rapidly evolving job markets by enhancing your self-knowledge and confidence to explore wider career opportunities. You will create a career development plan, encompassing your career goals, skills and knowledge development for your current and future jobs, and learn how to make the most of your strengths, talents, and experience. You’ll receive valuable guidance based on practical suggestions, theoretical models and current empirical evidence. Via structured learning activities you will gain an appreciation that career planning and management is an ongoing, rewarding process of assessing career identity, setting new learning goals and career visions, and celebrating accomplishments as you develop.

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Adapting: Career Development Specialization

Approx. 18 hours to complete

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What you will learn

Evaluate current career management issues and their implications on your professional career plans and development.
Create strategies and approaches to set new career vision, goals and action plans.
Apply knowledge of career models and tools for successful career planning and management.
Design a career path that fits personal values, interests, personality, and skills.

Flexible deadlines

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Includes hands on learning projects.

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Course 3 of 4 in the

Adapting: Career Development Specialization

Approx. 18 hours to complete

English

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Dr Alena Soboleva

Department of Marketing

Macquarie Business School

39,305 Learners

4 Courses

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Macquarie University

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Career planning and philosophy for the future

What are the most influential factors shaping contemporary careers, and why is individual adaptability critical to succeeding in a rapidly evolving career landscape? This week you will be introduced to a range of economic and technological issues redefining the future of work and its implications to contemporary career management. You will also review how to proactively think about your career that will help you not to lose focus even in the light of the fundamental shifts in work and also learn about career competencies related to successful adaptation.

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 36 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Career exploration: Boundaryless pathways

This week you will explore and collect career information from diverse sources to inform your professional awareness about different career paths and help you become more adaptable and flexible in your approach to career management. You will be guided to begin exploring “possible selves”, identify your favourite / best skills, and think about them in the context of different professional behaviours / roles.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 33 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Matching careers : Aligning values, vision and goals

What is the link between your values, vision, goals, and careers you’re interested to explore? This week you will apply elements of the design thinking approach to career planning to further help you identify what defines your professional identity even if you don’t exactly know what your career goals should be. These activities will help you to imagine alternative career trajectories in relation to the future of work. You will learn strategies to achieve better alignment between your skills and job description / job specification documents and be invited to create an unconventional (but effective) career game plan.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 27 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Proactive career management

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 32 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM CAREER PLANNING: YOUR CAREER, YOUR LIFE

by BDOct 18, 2020

The knowledge acquired in this course has given me great insights, it's really never too late to build a successful career path as long as one is ready to learn and adapt to changes in life

by GDAug 10, 2020

This is helpful to guide people who want to rechannel self on their careers

by MBJun 13, 2021

A course with a lot of worthwhile ideas on how to jumpstart or rebuild your career. Strongly recommended.

by HAAug 18, 2020

The information was timely and valuable. It was presented in a way that made it easy for me to understand and complete.

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About the Adapting: Career Development Specialization

Organisations are undergoing enormous changes in their structures and processes as they seek to take advantage of innovations in technology, remain competitive in Globalising markets, and deal with the increasing diversity of their staff, customers, and supply chains. The four subjects in this specialisation will examine the personal implications of the changing organisational environment - the need to continuously adapt and learn, to manage your career, to build up resilience against stress, and to take your place as a global citizen.

The aim is to enable you to thrive in working in contemporary organsations. 'Improve yourself Always' addresses the need for you to continuously develop and seeks to improve your capacity to learn and adapt. 'Build Personal Resilience' helps you enhance your resilience in the face of the pressures you will experience in working in contemporary organisations. 'Your Career Your Life' guides you in taking more responsibility for mapping out and engaging in your career. 'Become a Global Citizen' discusses the need to see yourself as a citizen of the increasingly global world of work and provides insight into the strategies to deal with cultural diversity.

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What will I get if I subscribe to this Specialization?
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.
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