Overview

It is quite common to experience career drift. People often find themselves in a job role by chance and forget to take control of their own career-life. Whether you are at the start of your career or feeling stuck midway or later, there is a way to steer your own career and super-charge it.

This course guides you in the purposeful use of employability and career development research to inform your choices and prompt positive actions that ready you for career developments and career change.

You will have the chance to evaluate your existing qualifications, experience and preferences in the light of the prevailing labour market, making use of psychometric tools and in-depth self-assessment. The learning will support development of the key knowledge, skills and behaviours needed for career success.

You will learn how to identify and select a range of attractive and interesting opportunities for career development both inside and outside your current employment, and develop a personal career development plan, with the guidance of an experienced career development coach.

How you’ll benefit

The main ways you will benefit from taking the course:

• Apply the latest research to your career planning
• Get a clear evaluation of your position in the current labour market
• Identify positive actions you can take to prepare for career changes.

How you’ll learn

You’ll learn through self-study, reflection, discussion and sharing learning with and from others, application of learning to your organisational context, and the completion of assessment tasks.