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Taking Charge of Your Career

Course Number: 037-GO
Recommended Duration: ½ Day

Intended Audience: All Employees

Course Overview

This course is designed to help participants understand how change today is continuously influencing organizations and therefore the need for employees to take charge of their personal career management. Participants will learn about current trends influencing careers, how to assess their own skills, abilities, values and goals, how resilient they are to change, and how to uncover opportunities.

Objectives

As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:
  • Continuously assess your personal skills, abilities and traits to better manage your career and ongoing development
  • Research and uncover job and career opportunities
  • Understand and build upon your resilience to change
Prerequisites: None

Topics

  • Thriving in the 21st century
  • The key organizational, work group, and individual trends
  • Assessing who you are to assess where you’re going
  • Your personal style
  • Your work habits and preferences
  • Developing “career anchors”
  • Identifying personal values, skills, and abilities
  • How to control your attitude
  • Eight practical steps for reinventing yourself
  • Establishing goals
  • Taking charge of your current job and exploring career options
  • Completing a current job profile to assess your satisfaction
  • Uncovering opportunities through networking
  • Researching job and career opportunities
  • Increasing your career resilience
  • Reacting to workplace changes
  • Resilience characteristics
  • Ways to become more resilient

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