Free Online course
Becoming Career Smart: How to Sell Yourself
8 March 2021
Becoming Career Smart: How to Sell Yourself
8 March 2021
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.
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).
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
Who is the course for?
This course is for professionals who are considering a career change. It will be of particular interest to mid-career professionals looking to plan their next step.
Who will you learn with?
Nicholas Patterson,Dr Nicholas Patterson (Ph.D) is an academic professional and Alfred Deakin Medalist in Information Technology and Criminology who has been involved in cyber-security research projects and teaching.
Moreinfo: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/career-smart-sell-yourself
