Delivery mode
Online
Location
Aalto Learning Experience Alex e-learning environment: License for three (8) weeks starting from the order date.
Language
English
Scope
Estimated study time 27 hours, equivalent to 1 ECTS
Design a Meaningful Career
Ready to design your own meaningful career?
In today’s rapidly changing world of work, finding a career that aligns with your values and passions can be challenging. This course, grounded in academic research, guides you through the process of designing a career that is both sustainable and fulfilling.
Design a Meaningful Career is crafted to help you navigate the complexities of modern career dynamics. Through a blend of creative thinking and practical strategies, you’ll learn how to build a career path that resonates with your personal values and goals. Explore the power of narrative, the pursuit of meaningful work, and the role of creativity in career design, all presented in an engaging and accessible format.
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Learning Objectives
Comprehend Career Dynamics: Understand the rapidly evolving nature of career landscapes and acquire essential skills for building a sustainable career in the future of work.
Enhance Self-Awareness through Narrative: Recognize how narrative can boost self-awareness, create meaning, and help you adapt to career changes.
Pursue Meaningful Work: Grasp the nature, benefits, and challenges of meaningful work, and learn strategies to pursue a career that aligns with your values.
Utilize Creativity in Career Design: Appreciate the importance of creativity in career planning and learn to use intuition and design thinking to make informed career decisions and adapt to changes.
Benefits
In today’s rapidly evolving job market, designing a career that aligns with your values and passions is more important than ever. This course provides the tools and insights needed to craft a meaningful and sustainable career path. By exploring the intersection of creativity, narrative, and meaningful work, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of how to navigate and thrive in the future of work.
- Personalized Career Design: Learn how to shape your own career path using design thinking and radical creativity, tailored to your unique values and goals.
- Narrative Clarity: Understand the power of narrative in defining your career identity and increasing self-awareness, helping you adapt to changes with confidence.
- Pursuit of Meaningful Work: Discover the core elements of meaningful work and how to pursue a career that is both fulfilling and sustainable.
- Future-Ready Skills: Equip yourself with the skills to navigate the uncertainties of the future job market, using creativity and intuition to make informed career decisions.
- Academic Foundation: Benefit from a course grounded in academic research of Aalto University, providing you with credible and practical insights into modern career dynamics.
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This course is perfect for anyone eager to carve out a meaningful and fulfilling career in today’s ever-changing work landscape.
Are you a professional striving to align your career with your core values and passions? An HR specialist committed to creating workplaces where meaningful work thrives? A business leader looking to spark creativity and purpose within your team? Or perhaps a student ready to step into the workforce with a clear and purposeful vision? This course is designed for you.
Join us to gain the insights and tools you need to navigate your career journey with confidence and creativity.
Contents
This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills to design a career that is both meaningful and sustainable. You’ll learn how to navigate the complexities of modern work environments, leverage creativity and design thinking, and align your career path with your personal values and goals.
This course consists of five chapters and each chapter has multiple sections. After each section, there is either a quiz or a reflection assignment so that you can reflect on what you have learned. The language of the course is English, and all videos include subtitles.
The estimated study time for the course is 27 hours. The recommended study schedule for the course is 4–5 hours per week over 5–6 weeks. You can complete the course flexibly at your own pace.
Modules
Module 1: The career is dead, long live the career
- Section 1: The many meanings of career
- Section 2: From tracks to gigs?
- Section 3: Sustainable careers
- Section 4: Key takeaways
Module 2: What's your narrative?
- Section 1: From scores and stages to stories
- Section 2: Narratives we live by
- Section 3: The moral of the story
- Section 4: Key takeaways
Module 3: Pursuing meaningful work
- Section 1: The what and why of meaningful work
- Section 2: Don’t discover your calling – Expelling the myths about meaningful work
- Section 3: What makes work meaningful – Four pathways
- Section 4: Key takeaways
Module 4: Radical career creativity - using intuition and design
- Section 1: The power of creativity and design thinking
- Section 2: Unleashing your intuition
- Section 3: The creative design process
- Section 4: Key takeaways
Module 5: Conclusions
- Conclusions
Program Fee and Registration
The course is free of charge, learners have access to the course materials for 8 weeks.
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