Career Success Specialization

Build Essential Skills for the Workplace. Improve your employability and advance in today’s dynamic workforce.

About This Specialization

This series of courses will help you build, develop and hone the essential skills needed to improve your employability and advancement in today’s dynamic workforce. The courses in this Specialization may be taken in any order. Each course can also be taken independently. The Specialization concludes with a Capstone project that will give you the opportunity to integrate and apply the skills you have gained throughout the courses to your individual and organizational needs.

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10 courses

Follow the suggested order or choose your own.

Projects

Designed to help you practice and apply the skills you learn.

Certificates

Highlight your new skills on your resume or LinkedIn.

Projects Overview

The purpose of the Capstone Project in the Career Success Specialization is for you to apply the methods and techniques you learned in the series of courses to a personal experience, giving you a way to communicate your value to potential employers. You’ll focus your communication, management, negotiation, problem solving, business writing, time management, finance, entrepreneurship, and project management skills into a single project that demonstrates your career readiness.

Courses

Beginner Specialization.: No prior experience required.

COURSE 1
Project Management: The Basics for Success
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Vietnamese, Portuguese (Brazilian)
About the Course
This course combines the essential elements of Project Management and Team Leadership into one course. Through class engagement and reflection, you will acquire further understanding of the responsibilities of leadership and become better prepared
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COURSE 2
Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, Dutch, Bulgarian, Korean, German, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese
About the Course
You will be able to gain and apply your knowledge and understanding of personal and professional awareness, organization and commitment, and use the tools, methods and techniques that you have learned in goal setting, prioritization, schedul
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COURSE 3
Finance for Non-Financial Professionals
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish
About the Course
Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon compl
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COURSE 4
Communication in the 21st Century Workplace
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Vietnamese, Arabic
About the Course
In today's fast-paced business environment, employees at all levels find themselves being asked to handle more tasks, meet more deadlines, take on more responsibilities, and adapt to more change. Added to these challenges is the constantly shifting d
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COURSE 5
High-Impact Business Writing
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Vietnamese, Spanish, Russian
About the Course
Effective writing is a powerful tool in the business environment. Learn how to articulate your thoughts in a clear and concise manner that will allow your ideas to be better understood by your readers. Improve your business writing skill by lea
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COURSE 6
The Art of Negotiation
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Vietnamese, Spanish
About the Course
The art of negotiation comes into play daily in the life of employees at all levels and in every position. Participants explore how current approaches to negotiation strategy and tactics are used, what negotiation entails, types of negotiation relationsh
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COURSE 7
Fundamentals of Management
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Vietnamese
About the Course
Are you about to enter the workforce? Are you an emerging professional? Are you new to your role in the organization? All prospective new employees benefit from understanding management principles, roles and responsibilities, regardless of position. Now
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COURSE 8
Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Vietnamese, Spanish
About the Course
Critical thinking – the application of scientific methods and logical reasoning to problems and decisions – is the foundation of effective problem solving and decision making. Critical thinking enables us to avoid common obstacles, test our bel
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COURSE 9
Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action
Commitment
4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes
Subtitles
English, Arabic, Vietnamese, German, Spanish
About the Course
Success in business can be greatly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies solutions. This interactive course provides potential entrepreneurs with the knowledge of succeeding in an entrepreneurial oppor
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COURSE 10
Career Success Project
Current session: Nov 12
Subtitles
English
About the Capstone Project
The purpose of the Capstone Project in the Career Success Specialization is for you to apply the methods and techniques you learned in the series of courses to a personal experience, giving you a way to communicate your value to potential employers
You can choose to take this course only. Learn more.

Creators

The University of California, Irvine excels in a broad range of fields and is noted for its excellent research and graduate programs, an extensive commitment to undergraduate education, and a growing number of professional schools and programs of academic importance and social significance.
Since 1965, the University of California, Irvine has combined the strengths of a major research university with the bounty of an incomparable Southern California location. UCI’s unyielding commitment to rigorous academics, cutting-edge research, and leadership and character development makes the campus a driving force for innovation and discovery that serves our local, national and global communities in many ways.

David Standen, MBA
Instructor, University of California, Irvine Extension
Rob Stone, PMP, M.Ed.
Instructor, University of California, Irvine Extension
Dave Nagy
Instructor, University of California, Irvine Extension
Patricia Bravo, MBA, SPHR
Instructor, University of California, Irvine Extension
Sue Robins, M.S. Ed.
Instructor, University of California, Irvine Extension
Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP
Instructor, University of California, Irvine Extension

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