
The history of the field and the works of Carl Jung
The four classic personality type scales
How to test and how to read each type
The relationship between personality type and work
The history and logic of the methodology
How to run the test
How to work with each of the four types
DISC as a basis for understanding your own reactions
What makes this methodology different
How each personality type works
The weaknesses that come with each type
Recognising a type in conversation without any test
The core of Belbin's methodology and its typical roles
Which role you naturally take in a team
The difference with the Hogan assessment
Where to get tested and how to read a report
What makes the Big Five different
Where to take the test
How to use the result when choosing a direction
Comparison with the other methodologies
How it differs from other typologies
Where to get tested
How to work with the results
How to apply it to a career decision
Why career coaching is in demand right now
What actually gets in the way of building a career
The dream career model
A tool for assessing where your career stands today
A tool for identifying your talents
A questionnaire for finding the dream career
Forming a vision of what you actually want
Linking the dream career to talents and life values
What impostor syndrome is and why people suffer from it
The career cube model
A tool for assessing your own impostor syndrome
Building a plan to work through it
The balance wheel applied to a career
Finding real information about the target role
Drawing up an individual development plan
Why soft skills decide most career moves
The most in-demand soft skills right now
Assessing personal qualities through competency-based interviews
The Keirsey questionnaire for personality type
A test of how good you actually are at job searching
Recruiting secrets and how to work around them
How to find out the salary before you apply
Job search strategies that work
Writing a CV that gets read
Building a LinkedIn profile that gets found
Interview preparation step by step
Keeping your motivation up during a long search
Why money has to be planned before the move, not after
Auditing your financial situation honestly
Financial planning for the transition period
What burnout is and what it costs
Diagnosing burnout in yourself
Analysing the causes rather than the symptoms
Building a recovery strategy
The A-player audit checklist
How to raise your own level deliberately
Eight typical situations and how to work through them
My own story of becoming an online instructor, from a 30-person meetup
Who an impostor actually is: usually the person who knows most
Around 70% of people experience it at some point
The "this comes too easily to me" trap
What your market value is made of and whether you can move it
Whether it is possible to undersell yourself, and how
Standing on three income legs instead of one
Finding people a thousand steps ahead and copying their first ten
What knowledge people actually pay for
Packaging knowledge and pricing it
The framework: knowledge, audience, content, product, marketing, payment
Why impostors so often become the successful experts
What time management is and why it matters more than ever
The basic principles behind every method here
Self-assessment of your current skills
Practical task: analyse where your time actually goes
Setting and formulating SMART goals
Prioritisation with the ABC method and the Eisenhower matrix
The 4D technique: do, defer, delegate, delete
Practical assignment: reallocate your current tasks
The basics of effective planning
Planning tools: calendars and applications
The Pomodoro technique for concentration
Managing lists with Kanban and GTD
Finding your personal time wasters
Increasing concentration through Pomodoro and time blocking
When and how to hand work over
The Golden Hour technique for important tasks
The psychology of procrastination and its real causes
Techniques for managing stress, including mindfulness
The importance of breaks and recovery
The Eat the Frog First principle in practice
Review of modern productivity applications
Timeboxing for effective time allocation
Visual methods: mind mapping and bullet journaling
Practical assignment: adopt one new tool
How the recruitment system works and where vacancies come from
How salaries are set and how recruiters search
How a recruiter evaluates a CV and why they call
Assessing your current job and choosing your target
What a perfect CV looks like and the path it takes
How a recruiter evaluates it
The ideal structure and layout
How to handle weak spots and the typical mistakes
Getting through the telephone screen
How the recruiter interviews and how the decision is made
Types of interview and the typical questions
How to sell yourself to your future manager
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Most people do not change careers because they are unhappy. They change because they finally admit they have no idea what they want, and staying got harder than finding out.
The part nobody warns you about
You update the CV, apply to forty roles, hear back from three. Meanwhile a voice in your head keeps suggesting you are not really qualified for any of them — and roughly 70% of people hear that same voice, usually the ones who know the most. Money runs down. The search takes longer than you budgeted for. Somewhere in month three you start considering roles you did not want in month one.
I have sat on the recruiter's side of that process for years, and I have been the candidate too. The gap between how people search and how hiring actually works is enormous, and it costs good people the jobs they should have had.
What we do about it
First, we work out what you are aiming at. Not with inspiration — with a talents inventory, a values questionnaire and the career cube, so the answer holds up on a bad day. Then we audit your skills against the target role and turn the gaps into a plan.
After that the mechanics. How recruiters actually source, screen and decide. A CV built for the seven seconds it will get. A LinkedIn profile that surfaces in the searches that matter. Interview preparation including the questions that decide it. The pay conversation with the four objections your boss will use. And the impostor voice handled directly, because it does more damage during a transition than anything on your CV.
Who is teaching this
Mike, the number one HR instructor on Udemy. More than 1.6 million course enrolments, over 150,000 professionals trained, PHRi and SHRM-CP certified, HRCI representative in more than 10 countries. I built the people function of the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals. I have read a very large number of CVs, and I will tell you honestly what happens to most of them.
Where the course ends
Not at the offer. Getting hired is the middle of the story, and the first ninety days decide whether the move was worth making. So the final part is about landing well: what the strongest employees do differently, how to work with a new manager, how to make your contribution visible early, and how to keep your motivation when nobody is watching yet.
What is included
- Lifetime access to all course materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- Udemy Certificate of Completion
- Practical assignments and real business cases
- A section with additional courses, tools and resources
One honest note
A career change takes longer than you think and costs more than you planned. That is normal. What is not normal is doing it blind, on advice from people who have never seen the hiring side. Enrol now and start the first lesson today.