Career Building with Power Tools

Name: Career Building with Power Tools
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Tools to help you pinpoint your career, plan your career and enjoy your career!

Created byEthel Walker, MBA, CPCC

Last updated 6/2023

English

What you'll learn

Utilize the Career Building Power Tools to pinpoint your ideal job role
Create a prioritized list of your most meaningful personal values
Identify the root causes of past job satisfaction and dissatisfaction
Inventory and assess your job skills
Create a skill gap inventory
Define your interests and align them to specific job roles
Discover your key talents that can enable a more fulfilling job role
Develop an action plan to put your self-knowledge to work in pursuing your ideal job role

Course content

5 sections • 19 lectures • 1h 24m total length

Course Overview7:14
In this lecture you will be introduced to the components of the self-exploration process that will be taught in this course. By the end of the lecture, you will be able to summarize the key components.
Getting the Most from Career Building with Power Tools3:43
By the end of this lecture, you will be able to use the course roadmap resource to document what you are learning about yourself as you progress through the course. You will also learn best practices to increase your success in putting what you learn from this course into action.
Career Building with Power Tools Overview

Identify Your Values8:23
In this lecture, you will learn how to use a Power Tool to identify your top ten personal values. Understanding what is most important to you, helps to ensure that you identify a job role and environment that will allow you to flourish.
Prioritize Your Values7:28
In this lecture, you will learn how to use a Power Tool to prioritize your top ten values identified in the previous lecture. You will utilize the "Identify and Prioritize Your Values" Excel worksheet resource found in the prior lecture to complete the lecture exercise.
Gain Insight from Your Past Experiences14:00
In this lecture you will learn how to use two Power Tools - one to uncover and the other to clarify your most important work preferences.
Inventory and Assess Your Job Skills5:18
In this lecture you will learn how to use a Power Tool to Inventory and assess your job skills.
Explore the Interest Profiler6:24
In this lecture, you will preview an online tool that helps you to learn more about your interests and their alignment to specific personality and work environments.
Identify Your Interest Profile1:25
In this lecture you will lean how to use a Power Tool to identify your career "type" based on your interests.
Discover Your Talents0:27
In this lecture you will learn how to use a Power Tool to identify those talents that you would like to use regularly in a job role.
Self-Exploration Quiz

Summarize What You've Learned0:25
In this lecture you will learn how to review and summarize your self-exploration results.
Pinpoint Your Perfect Job Role8:29
In this lecture you will Identify job roles that best match your self-exploration results.
Do Your Research1:50
In this lecture you will learn actions you can take to do research on companies that have a job role that may interest you. These research tips are designed to help you gather details regarding the work environment and alignment to your personal values and preferences.
Complete Your Skill Gap Inventory0:45
In this lecture you will review the skills required for your perfect job role and compare them to your current skill set to finalize your skill gap inventory.
Review Your Action Plan1:14
In this lecture you will finalize and review your action plan.

Ideas to Build Your Professional Network4:04
Networking is an important skill to develop to reach your career goals. This lecture will provide you with some ideas to help you to build your professional network.
Tips to Overcome Barriers to Networking9:35
This lecture will provide you with some tips to help you to overcome common barriers to networking.
Understanding Behavior Styles0:51
An important aspect of building your professional network is to understand that people have different behavior styles. Using DISC can help you to identify, understand and adapt to different behavior styles.
DISC is an invaluable behavioral profiling system that will teach you how to identify— and use to your advantage— the predictable aspects of human behavior.
Individuals who use DISC increase effective communication, job satisfaction, productivity and harmony in their work environment. Personal relationships are enhanced, building rapport becomes easier and interactions at work, home and play are more positive.
Using ChatGPT for Resumes2:41
5 Warnings Before Using ChatGPT to Prepare Your Resume or Cover Letter

Requirements

Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word to complete course exercises and to utilize provided templates
Focused time to ensure meaningful and accurate output from the application of the Power Tools
Sticky notes or index cards to make the exercises more engaging (optional)

Description

***New lecture added on Using ChatGPT for Resumes June, 2023****

In this course you will learn how to apply tools to complete the first step to finding your ideal job role, which is knowing yourself. I will be your tour guide, walking you through the self-exploration process using my V.I.S.I.T framework. The V.I.S.I.T framework is an easy-to- use model that identifies each component of the self-exploration process, which includes prioritizing your values, gaining insight from past experiences, assessing your skills, clarifying your interests and discovering your talents.

Using simple and engaging activities called Power Tools, you will clarify your personal work preferences and build an action plan. Just like real power tools provide users with speed and efficiency to get the job done quicker, the Career Building Power Tools taught in this course will expedite and enhance your ability to pinpoint the attributes of your perfect role.

The Power Tools are Adaptable and Easy to Use

The Power Tools are in Microsoft Excel or Word format, and you will receive a copy of the templates as a resource from the course. You will also learn to use online tools available through O*Net to help you take what you have learned and pinpoint your perfect job role.

As an added value from the course, you will find that some of the Power Tools can be used to help you with decision-making, organizing information and finding root causes in areas that extend beyond finding your ideal job role.

The Career Building with Power Tools Course Is Designed for Ease of Learning and Engagement

The course is divided into three sections; an introduction, self-exploration and bringing it all together. The heart of the course is the self-exploration section which includes lectures which cover each of the components of the V.I.S.I.T. framework and the associated Power Tool. The lectures will cover:

An overview of the framework component and the associated Power Tool
A demonstration of how to utilize the Power Tool
Exercises to test or practice what you learn

This engaging course utilizes multiple formats to deliver the content, including videos, screen sharing, PowerPoint, articles, exercises and quizzes.

Who this course is for:

The target student is an individual motivated to discover and pursue their ideal career or job role
This course is best suited for individuals that have some job or volunteer work experience
This course is suited for individuals looking to pursue a new role now or those planning for the future

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Introduction2 lectures • 11min

Self-Exploration7 lectures • 43min

Bringing It All Together5 lectures • 13min

Career Skill Development Spotlights : Networking, Behavior Styles and Resumes4 lectures • 17min

Bonus Lecture1 lecture • 1min

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