Essential Skills for Your Career Development
4.6 (486 reviews)
82,897 enrolled on this course
Take charge of your career development and identify the skills you need to plan and achieve your career goals.
Duration
2 weeks
Weekly study
2 hours
100%
online
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.
What topics will you cover?
- Careers in the modern professional landscape
- How to use vision boards to identify your own career roadmap
- Exploring goal setting and understanding value propositions
- Goal setting
- Building a professional network
- Building relationships
- Dealing with change and always being ready to learn
Essential Skills for Your Career Development
4.6 (486 reviews)
82,897 enrolled on this course
2 weeks
2 hours per week
Digital certificate when eligible
Introductory level
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
- Identify different approaches to growing your career
- Explore a roadmap, vision board for your career path
- Explain your career vision clearly
- Identify key individuals, organisations and platforms for your network
- Develop communications to engage key leads
- Evaluate the impact of your strategy and iterate accordingly
Who is the course for?
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.
The course will also be useful for anyone in employment who wants to boost their digital skills or anyone returning to the workplace who’d like to gain confidence in how working practices have evolved.
You might also be interested in the other courses in the Digital Skills for the Workplace collection from the University of Leeds and the Institute of Coding.
Who will you learn with?
Jennifer Rosen
Hi! I’m a Lead Educator for a few of the Future Learn courses. I’m a communications specialist and filmmaker. I’m also a certified integrative health coach and yoga teacher.
Who developed the course?
University of Leeds
As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.
Institute of Coding
The Institute of Coding is a family of learners, businesses and educators creating a new way to develop the digital skills needed at work and beyond.
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