Building and Managing Superior Skills
In this course, you will engage in developing and strengthening the functional component of your career brand. Acting as “your own Chief Executive Officer” (P. Drucker), you will learn how to use strategic management models and techniques for enhancing your skills portfolio. You will learn how to increase your human capital by developing and documenting high-demand marketable skills. After completing this course, you will be able to: - Implement business strategy and models and tools, such as benchmarking and SWOT analysis, for identifying and analyzing your competitive strengths and addressing competency gaps in a skill-based, competitive job selection context;
- Understand evidence-based, data-driven skill assessment methodologies and techniques;
- Select appropriate assessment tools and apply them for a thorough, accurate, evidence-based and data driven self-assessment of your transferable skills;
- Create your critical competency profile (“The Self-Assessment Grid for Evaluation, or SAGE”) and use it as an effective instrument for an objective, 360 degree self-assessment of your competitive strengths and competency gaps;
- Create and use an effective instrument for organizing, directing and monitoring your skill-building activities (“The Skill-Building Dashboard, or Skill-Builder”);
- Develop an effective tool (“The T-Portfolio”) for gathering and organizing samples of standards, best practices, assessment instruments and techniques in your chosen field;
- Effectively organize your self-management information system to systematically collect and analyze job-related data, evaluate and assess required competencies and skills, develop and implement plans for self-improvement, and monitor your progress;
- Develop and implement a realistic performance metric for your career development activities (“Your Present Job Market Value”);
- Engage in self-coaching to support active self-development.
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Syllabus
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Harnessing the Power of Personal Analytics for Career Branding
Week 2
Understanding Assessment
Week 3
Mastering Self-Assessment
Week 4
Putting Self-Coaching to Work
Week 5
Course Review
FAQ
When will I have access to the lectures and assignments?
Access to lectures and assignments depends on your type of enrollment. If you take a course in audit mode, you will be able to see most course materials for free. To access graded assignments and to earn a Certificate, you will need to purchase the Certificate experience, during or after your audit. If you don't see the audit option:
The course may not offer an audit option. You can try a Free Trial instead, or apply for Financial Aid.
The course may offer 'Full Course, No Certificate' instead. This option lets you see all course materials, submit required assessments, and get a final grade. This also means that you will not be able to purchase a Certificate experience.
What will I get if I subscribe to this Specialization?
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. Your electronic Certificate will be added to your Accomplishments page - from there, you can print your Certificate or add it to your LinkedIn profile. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free.
Is financial aid available?
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
Reviews
The interviews in week 4 is totally worthy to watch
Best learning! while in Proffesional career such programs are must to enrich brand entity of self and to ace towards next step.
Great Course delivering practicable ideas, Tools and Tipps!
Excellent course - especially the self-coaching tools for career brand development. Thanks for sharing.
