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#BU-02-06 Becoming Career Smart: How to Sell Yourself
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- Course level:
Intermediate - Share:
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Business - Duration
10h - Total Enrolled
8 - Last Update
September 14, 2020
About Course
Deakin University
Description
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.
Who will you learn with?
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.
Lecturer in IT Management,
School of Information Technology,
Deakin University.
Who developed the course?
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
What Will I Learn?
- Explain what success means to you
- Identify your core sellable skills
- Identify evidence of these skills from your experience
Topics for this course
You and your career?
What sets you apart from the rest?00:01:42
Learning online with Deakin00:02:49
Let’s meet each other
Let’s get started00:00:48
Starting your career journey: hear from a Silicon Valley expert00:06:03
Draft Lesson
Futureproofing your professional skills?
21st century skills00:07:01
New credentials
Professional skills required for contemporary careers00:02:06
Past career experience
Demystifying credentials?
Beyond your resume00:01:50
Professional Practice credentials
Communicating your brand
How well do you communicate?
How do you communicate??
Elon Musk and Tesla’s new battery system
Would you zig instead of zag?
Becoming Career Smart recap00:00:49
Student Feedback
4.5
Total 4 Ratings
3 months ago
This pitch approach can also be used for just about any business purpose. When you meet a client, you need to be able to do the 15 second pitch, and make it engaging, and intriguing, so that they want to know more.
3 months ago
I am impressed by the video. It doesn’t only provide new content but the interactive way is quite impressive.
3 months ago
Good for beginners, but common knowledge for advanced business participants, no hints and tricks or anything special included.
this course has been invaluable in realistically redefining my scope, branding, and marketing. If you are in the same boat or at the start of a new business, this course is a must! Simply follow the steps, complete them as you go along and you’ll have an actionable business plan by the end of it. Good luck
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- 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.
