Becoming Career Smart: How to Sell Yourself (FutureLearn)

Offered by Deakin University,
Becoming Career Smart: How to Sell Yourself (FutureLearn)

Thinking about a career change? Identify your key strengths and professional skills, and learn how to sell them and yourself. Learn how to benefit from your work and life experience. Most people change their jobs multiple times, some make dramatic career shifts. Being able to identify your transferable skills is vital in a changing career marketplace.

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This course investigates the current career environment and, using case studies and a series of unique audit tools, it will challenge you to explore your successes and what success means to you. It will also develop your capacity to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses and increase your knowledge of credentials (the skills and capabilities you have built during your life and career).
This course is part of the program Introduction to IT Professional Practice, which is one of the building blocks that leads to a degree in Information Technology Leadership.

What topics will you cover?
This course looks at the current career environment. Using case studies and a series of unique audit tools, the course challenges you to:

  • explore your successes and what success means to you
  • develop your capacity to reflect on your strengths and weaknesses
  • identify your key professional skills and capabilities.

What will you achieve?

  • Explain what success means to you
  • Identify your core sellable skills
  • Identify evidence of these skills from your experience
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