Essential Skills for Your Career Development (FutureLearn)

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.

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

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.