careershifters.org
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CareerShifters.org is a resource hub for anyone considering a career change, offering practical guides, real-life case studies, and tools to explore options and plan a successful transition. It covers topics like transferable skills, job search strategies, and career-change planning.
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themuse.com
The Muse is a career-resource platform offering company profiles, workplace culture insights, and practical job-search guidance. It features resume and interview tips, career guides, salary insights, and curated job listings.
Strategic Career Self-Management
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the current economy, Americans shift jobs every 4-5 years, which translates into 8-10 job transitions, including several career changes, over oneās life time. With competition for jobs on the rise, a personās continuing employability and career success are increasingly defined by his or her mastery of individual career development and the ability to effectively "manage oneself" (P. Drucker). In this course, you will learn how to think strategically and professionally about your career self-management. Through this course you'll develop an objective, external view of your marketable skills as a solid foundation for building a strong career brand. In particular, you'll be able to: - explain why developing a protean and boundaryless career perspective based on transferable (portable) skills is advantageous for continuing employability and career growth; - design your portable skills portfolio, identify and examine critically important competencies underpinning your transferable skills, and analyze your career self-management competency gaps; - increase self-awareness, pinpoint your career goals, and envision your future work self; - recognize the central role of self-management for developing transferable, marketable, skills and create a customized self-management information system (Career Development Lab) for ongoing personal development and professional growth; - conduct a thorough, competency-based job analysis in your area of interest and examine practices of evidence-based, data-driven competitive employee selection; -implement your newly developed skills for crafting effective selection criteria statements and refining your job applications.
linkedin.com
LinkedIn is a professional networking platform for connecting with peers, recruiters, and potential employers. It provides user profiles, company pages, job listings, and a wealth of career resourcesāarticles, insights, and LinkedIn Learning coursesāto support career transitions.