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Find Your Calling: Career Transition Principles for Veterans (Coursera)

Offered by Columbia University,

This course provides military veterans with a useful roadmap to transition more smoothly from military service to a new and meaningful civilian career.

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What You Will Learn

Practical tips and strategies for making a successful military-to-civilian career transition.
A framework for how to begin thinking about and exploring new career opportunities.
Model behaviors exhibited by veterans who have successfully started new careers.

Syllabus

WEEK 1: Introduction
WEEK 2: Pietas (Citizenship)
WEEK 3: Prudentia (Critical Thinking)
WEEK 4: Veritas (Authenticity)
WEEK 5: Gravitas (Passion)
WEEK 6: Humanitas (Choice and Creativity)
WEEK 7: Nosce Te Ipsum ("Know Thyself": Emotional Intelligence)
WEEK 8: Course Wrap Up
WEEK 9: Graded Assessment and Survey

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