International Career Development: Pursuing A Career Abroad (FutureLearn)

Offered by Coventry University,
International Career Development: Pursuing A Career Abroad (FutureLearn)

Explore the relationship between culture and business and learn the skills you’ll need to develop your career internationally. Enhance your intercultural skills for working abroad. On this course, you’ll have the opportunity to improve your prospects for working abroad.

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You’ll explore how cultural diversity affects the business world and learn the importance of developing your intercultural skills to pursue an international career.
You’ll have the chance to assess your personality type, strengths, and weaknesses, and identify the skills you need to work on to support your progress in education or work abroad.
Along the way, you’ll be introduced to analytical tools and theoretical frameworks, and be encouraged to reflect and set goals for your ongoing career development.

What topics will you cover?

  • General introduction to career development on an international level
  • Cross cultural elements
  • Personal skills and weaknesses
  • Setting personal objectives

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Develop an understanding of the cultural dimensions of international career development
  • Identify skills, strengths and weaknesses
  • Identify personal objectives for international career development
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