Essential Skills for Your Career Development

Essential Skills for Your Career Development

What you'll learn

Identify different approaches to growing your career by exploring a roadmap and vision board, and be able to explain your career vision clearly.
Identify key individuals, organisations and platforms for your network, and develop communications to engage key leads.
Evaluate the impact of your strategy and iterate accordingly.

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There are 2 modules in this course

Explore professional career development methods to get your career on track and achieve success. This course will help you learn skills for life that would enable you to take your career to the next level. Using planning tools, you’ll identify the right career path for you, establish achievable goals and learn how to achieve them.

You’ll learn how to navigate the process of applying for jobs and interviews by getting practical advice from like-minded individuals who propelled their careers forward. You will also consider the importance of transferable skills such as creating the right professional networks and developing soft skills and resilience. This course is one of many, offered by Click Start, a UK training programme designed to help young people develop digital skills. Click Start offers a limited number of scholarships giving free access to young people in the UK. Check the FAQs to see more detail and follow the link to check if you are eligible for free access today.

In Week 1 you will begin by considering what direction you want for your career by identifying your ideal job. Along the way you will hear from Benjamin Buzense, a fellow student, who will share how he has done the exercises you will be doing throughout the week. You’ll explore the risks and benefits of having a presence online and explore what you can do to improve your online presence or make it more professional. At the end, you will find out how to articulate your career aspirations to mentors, potential employers and at networking events.

What's included

3 videos12 readings3 discussion prompts

3 videosTotal 19 minutes

Welcome to the course1 minutePreview module
How others have found their ideal job7 minutes
How to create a vision board10 minutes

12 readingsTotal 120 minutes

Getting started10 minutes
The modern world of work10 minutes
What’s the path to your ideal job?10 minutes
How you can develop the career you want10 minutes
Finding the right career path10 minutes
What's the best path to take?10 minutes
Creating a vision board10 minutes
Creating your board10 minutes
Identifying your roadmap10 minutes
Write your goal10 minutes
The importance of value proposition10 minutes
Preparing for next week10 minutes

3 discussion promptsTotal 30 minutes

Introduce yourself10 minutes
Goal setting and value propositions10 minutes
Write your value proposition10 minutes

In Week 2 you will focus on building networks and relationships in order to develop your career. You will hear from experts about different approaches that can be taken to do this. During the activities, you will find out how to identify key individuals, organisations and platforms for your network. You will learn about the network effect and you will hear from three professionals about developing your network. You will develop your communications skills in order to engage key leads and receive guidance on communicating across platforms such as LinkedIn, as well as for cover letters and networking events. At the end of the week you will evaluate your career strategy and explore how to use feedback constructively and look at the advantages of continuous learning for career growth.