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Hello and welcome to week 3 of the
University of London in Hartsfield career and employability MOOC.
If you've already completed week 1, you may have an idea
of what the drivers are, behind your search for the right career.
For example.
Are you driven by the recognition for technical expertise?
Or perhaps a need to be creative, or
maybe work-life balance is more important for you.
You should also have a clear picture of what your strengths are
in terms of skills and competencies, which was discussed in week 2.
Moving on, we suggest that in order to achieve a career that feels
like success, it's really important to know what success looks like for you.
Please bear in mind, this varies greatly from individual to individual.
If you haven't considered it already, you might want to think about.
What kind of career resonates best with your internal preferences?
For example, do you gain the
most satisfaction from feeling that you're learning?
In this case a learning type career might be best for you.
Or perhaps you gain most satisfaction from
feeling you're moving up a hierarchical structure.
And in this case an ascending career could be best.
For some people, a sense of belonging within a community is very, very
important, and for these individuals, perhaps a
relating career could give the most satisfaction.
There's no right or wrong.
However, it can be a bit tricky to decide
which category any given career could be put into.
For this reason, there's an exercise for you to
participate in using the peer assessment tool around this.
Again, none of these preferences are right or wrong.
Identifying them takes a bit of looking back at what
experiences have given you the most satisfaction in the past.
And also a lot of self honesty around your own career values.
Armed with this knowledge of what you want to achieve, you might
now want to consider some of the building blocks of career success.
We can conceptualize a successful career strategy as an iceberg, with the
visible attributes of success being only a very small portion of the whole.
Hidden below the surface are other factors,
such as self-knowledge, which we've already discussed.
In addition, some important qualities to be aware of are.
Confidence, resilience, opportunity awareness and goal setting.
Lack of awareness of these elements is likely to
seriously hinder your attempt to achieve positive career change.
Being aware will allow you to either recognize
what are your strengths that you can play to.
Or identify areas for development or attention.
Firstly, which of the building blocks of career success do you need to give
attention, confidence, resilience, opportunity awareness, or goal setting?
Secondly.
How are you going to access and identify new opportunities?
And thirdly, do you have a concrete plan in place for your next steps?
Each section will have an exercise to help you internalize the learning points.
The first activity is to participate in a
discussion around what career success means to you.
And why do you have this definition?
Click on the link, what is success, which you
can find in the section, to access a resource which
will help you to think about the different types of
career and perhaps what your definition of success might be.
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