Developing career resilience
The Open University
Summary
- Certificate of completion - Free
Overview
This free badged course, Developing career resilience, will help you to understand the factors that influence career resilience, and offer examples and tactics for you to develop yours further.
Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development.
Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge.
Description
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- identify the strengths of resilient people and recognise which of these strengths you have already
- recognise how the need for resilience varies in different occupational sectors
- understand changing trends in the world of work
- identify tactics for goal setting and overcoming setbacks
- work with a model for career resilience and develop personal resources.
Course content
- Introduction and guidance
- Week 1: Developing career resilience – a personal approach
- Week 2: Personal resilience – born or made?
- Week 3: Understanding the external challenge
- Week 4: Making connections
- Week 5: Sources of support
- Week 6: Self-belief and persistence
- Week 7: Skills, networks and career adaptability
- Week 8: Using your strengths
Who is this course for?
This free badged course, Developing career resilience, will help you to understand the factors that influence career resiience and offer examples and tactics for you to develop yours further.
The course lasts eight weeks, with approximately three hours’ activities each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week’s study.
You’ll start this course by considering your personal situation, the strengths you have and stresses you face. As you move on you’ll look at why career resilience is important in today’s working world, changing practices, how the future might look and how resilience can be learned. You’ll hear from international athletes on overcoming setbacks and persistence, and from recruiters on how they spot resilience during recruitment processes. Finally, you will identify how this understanding might be applied to your own situation and devise a practical action plan that is appropriate for you. There will be plenty of examples to help you as you progress, together with opportunities to try new activities and practise your understanding.
Certificates
Certificate of completion
Digital certificate - Included
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