Career Options: Exploring a New Career
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Career Options: Exploring a New Career at Coursera Overview
Duration | 25 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Career Options: Exploring a New Career at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 25 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Career Options: Exploring a New Career at Coursera Course details
- This course is for you if you are interested in researching a new career and acquiring the skills necessary to succeed in it. You will be asked to reflect on your experiences and critically evaluate what you currently know, what you need to acquire, and how to go about getting it. You will then identify groups and individuals that can serve and support you in exploring a new career. During this course, you will identify the elements of a well-structured career plan and evaluate career options by individual fit to determine how to effectively engage your network in your career journey.
- You will design a tactical career plan and identify pitfalls in behavior, communication and appearance that can derail a new career. You will also develop a targeted cover letter and resume using a proven business format. Your experiential learning can also be a valuable asset, linking your personal experiences with your chosen career. We will help you define your career objective statement and align this with your strengths and goals. Finally, you will be challenged to research and identify your personal values inventory, and evaluate how to best navigate the current job market by using an innovative approach called career rockclimbing.
Career Options: Exploring a New Career at Coursera Curriculum
What is Career Planning?: Career Exploration Infographic
Meet the Team
Course Introduction Video
Beginning Your Career Plan
Learning Objectives
The 80,000 Hour Career Guide
Optional - StrengthFinders and More
Optional Career Exploration Self-Assessments
Examining a Social Impact Career - Test Your Existing Knowledge!
Assess what you've learned so far!
Hot Careers and Job Trends: Where the Future Lies
What Do I Need To Know?
Learning Objectives
What Teachers Make
Stand the Test of Time
Importance of Networking
Fastest Growing Occupations
What Makes For A Dream Job?
WANTED: Top 10 Future Jobs
Practice What You've Learned!
Hot Careers and Job Trends Quiz
Marketplace Realities: Who Am I Relative to the Job I am Seeking?
What Are Marketplace Realities? (Self Evaluation)
Learning Objectives
Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree
Self Evaluation Tool
Got Hope?
Student Success Measures
What Does The Marketplace Tell Us About Opportunity?
Self-Evaluation and Market Realities Practice Quiz
Marketplace Realities
RightPathing Your Future: The Importance of Whole-Life Career Planning
Introduction to RightPathing Your Future
What Is RightPathing Your Future?
Understanding Our Behaviors: The X-Ray
Understanding Our Behaviors: The MRI
Understanding Our Skills, Work Values and Passions
Understanding and Articulating Our Life Purpose
An Expert's Advice on Achieving Career Success
The Learning Objectives
"How I Landed the Job that I Wanted? Career Planning!"
"Examples of Life Purpose Statements"
The Power of Vulnerability, TEDx Talk by Brene Brown
RightPathing Your Future, Practice Quiz
RightPathing Your Future, Graded Quiz
My First Steps: Defining Your Career Objective and Action Plan
Writing Your Career Objective
Matching What I Think I Know With What the Position Describes
Learning Objectives
Bridge That Gap: Evaluate Your Skill Index
Employers Rate Candidates Soft Skills/Qualities
Skills Inventory - The Emotional Intelligence Skills Employers Want Now
Research the Best Jobs - U.S. News & World Report
Occupational Outlook Handbook
My Skills My Future - Career Research
Defining Your Career Objective and Action Plan Quiz
Defining Your Career Objective and Action Plan Quiz
Research and Values: Identifying Your Best Options
Research Is Key!
What Research Should I Do?
Learning Objectives
My Career Matches
My Next Move
The Key to Success? Grit
O*Net Work Values
Identifying Workplace Values?. What?s Most Important to You
Reading: Aligning your Work with your Values
Research is Key Practice Quiz
Research and Values
Career Rockclimbing: A Tactical Approach to Reach the Top
Career Creativity
Learning Objectives
The Career Ladder vs. The Rock Wall
Revamped Corporate Ladder
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
Career Development and Mobility
Office Politics on the Corporate Ladder
Moving Up The Hierarchy
Career Rock Climbing and Corporate Ladder - What You Have Learned!
Career Rock Climbing
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