Charting Your Career
The Employee Development team designed this professional learning journey to provide you with the tools and resources needed to support your career development. This journey is on demand so you can complete this at your own pace.
Plan for 2 hours for the main elements of the journey plus time as needed for any desired additional reading and resume development.
Included in this chart:
- A personality self-assessment
- A career planning skill benchmark test
- Tools for creating a career action and promotion plan
- Resources for increasing your networking skills
- Interviewing best practices
- Resume and cover letter templates
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this journey, you will be able to:
- Identify career development opportunities
- Create a career action plan
- Create a LinkedIn profile
- Create or revise your resume utilizing industry best practices
- Summarize interviewing best practice
Available Training Credits:
- CPE (NASBA): 1.50
- PDU (PMI): 0.50
Learning Journey
Start your journey with reflection. 15 minutes is an appropriate amount of time to take the two assessments. However, depending on the skill benchmark results, you may have additional content to view.
- The Career Aptitude Test is a personality assessment to help you identify potential career options. This free, fun, and quick assessment will give you an analysis of your personality type based on the Holland Codes developed by psychologist, Dr. John Holland. Upon completing the test, you will receive occupations aligning with your results.
If you have time for more, Take The Career Planning Skill Benchmark. Skillsoft designed this test to gauge your knowledge of career development and growth. You will be tested on the content you may not be aware of, which is OK. The goal of the benchmark is to identify gaps and provide you with development opportunities.
Complete the courses and videos listed below and download the job aids for future reference. Please allow 60 minutes to complete this step of the journey.
- Developing a Plan to Further Your Career (18 minutes)
- Getting Your Career on the Right Track (17 minutes)
- Building Your Professional Network (20 minutes)
- Write an Incredible Resume: 5 Golden Rules! (8 minutes)
- Top Interview Tips: Common Questions, Nonverbal Communication & More | Indeed (5 minutes)
Now let’s practice what we have learned. Use the Skillsoft job aids to create an action and promotion plan. Please plan on spending approximately 10 minutes on each plan
- Developing a Plan to Further Your Career
- Getting Your Career on the Right Track
Great work! The next step is to build your network and resume. For this practice exercise, we want to get you started with the framework of your profile and resume. Spending 15 -20 minutes on this activity would be appropriate.
Dedicate additional time to this journey by finalizing your linked profile, resume, and additional reading.
Listed below are some recommended additional readings. These are not required for the journey but are provided to those who want to take a deeper dive. The estimated time for the titles listed below is approximately 60 minutes to 3 hours.
Changing jobs or careers is a process. You may need to revisit or reassess your action and career plans along the way depending on the results of your efforts.
Allow at least 30-60 days to see results. If you are not seeing any movement, you might need to go back to either your plan or resume and networking efforts and make some changes.
