Essential Skills for your Career Development

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University of Leeds

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Essential Skills for your Career Development

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What is the course about?

Essential Skills for your Career Development

The course Essential Skills for your Career Development is an online class provided by University of Leeds through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Take charge of your career development and identify the skills you need to plan and achieve your career goals.

Course description

Learn the professional career development tools to get your career on track
2 weeks

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.

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

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

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.

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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Prerequisites & Facts

Essential Skills for your Career Development

Course Topic

Business & Management, Professional Development

University, College, Institution

University of Leeds

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Essential Skills for your Career Development

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / University of Leeds you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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