Career Planning Essentials: Unlock Your Future

Deciding on a career path and finding employment opportunities is challenging. The labour market is constantly changing, and it can be difficult to know what your options are. This course will give you the ultimate guide to starting your career.

What you will learn:

In this course you’ll learn to examine your abilities, explore opportunities, and create SMART goals to define and measure your career development.

The key elements to a successful job application are a strong CV and cover letter that showcase your strengths, skills, and experience. LinkedIn is also vital for recruiters in today’s job market, and can play a huge role in expanding your opportunities.

In this course, you’ll learn tips and techniques on how to create a comprehensive CV, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile that make you stand out as a strong candidate.

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Describe what makes up your personal brand.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses and describe how to make use of them when applying for jobs.
• Produce a CV, cover letter and social media profile according to the course criteria.
• Demonstrate how to prepare for a job interview.
• Reflect on the processes involved in career planning with other learners.
• Describe basic career concepts and identify what makes a person employable.
• Create goals for your personal brand and future career.
• Identify the steps set out in the course for negotiating a suitable salary.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for people starting their careers or entering the workplace, including students studying at the upper secondary level or towards a degree.

It will also be beneficial for those wanting to improve their career prospects.

How does it work?

You only need a computer or other device and internet connection to be able to do the course. When you register, you will get access to the course material, which consists of, for example, videos, texts, quizzes and exercises.