This course will teach you how to manifest your career vision into reality with a strategic approach to manage your career change and ensure you are moving forward. Nobody likes career changes - but did you know that the average person changes their career more than seven times in their lifetime?
As your work and personal circumstances change, you may self-reflect, assess the situation, and make course corrections. You might want to switch lanes to a job that better suits your skill sets or because of challenges like moving to a new place, or health issues. While at times unpleasant, these changes are the basis for career and personal progression.
For some individuals, the transition may be voluntary as they consciously make the decision to make a change. The mental preparation for a change may start years before taking the first step. For others, a transition can be involuntary as organisations downsize or move jobs overseas, seeing employee retrenchment. The latter is often difficult for individuals and their families. If left unchecked, the stress can have an adverse impact on an individual’s psychological well-being, resulting in a loss of confidence and self-esteem.
This PD offers a strategic way for you to manage your career change while minimising stress, maximising your organisational skills, and making sure you inch closer to your career goals throughout the process. Offering insights from a career coach with decades of experience, this course will teach you how to:
It’s time to navigate your career changes, instead of being defeated by them!
All teachers who are seeking a career transition and who require practical tips and strategies to devise a practical action plan.
6.2.2 Proficient Level - Engage in Professional Learning - Engage in professional learning and improve practice: Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities
6.3.2 Proficient Level - Engage in Professional Learning - Engage with colleagues and improve practice: Contribute to collegial discussions and apply constructive feedback from colleagues to improve professional knowledge and practice
Welcome
About Course Author
Our Approach to Learning
The Path to Future Success™
About the Course
Activity — Goals and Program Survey
Making a Career Transition
Your Career Responsibility
When to Make a Career Transition
1. Industry is in a Decline
2. You are Not Being Challenged!
3. The Thought of Work Fills You with Dread
4. You Calculate Your Personal Leave Entitlements
5. You are on the Hunt for New Opportunities
6. Financial Reasons
7. Realignment of Personal Skills and/or Spiritual Values
8. Your Job is Impacting Your Personal Life
Activity — View a Video — If it is Time to Change Careers
Advantages and Disadvantages of a Career Change
A Time of Transition to Reach New Career Goals
1. Ending, Losing, and Letting Go
2. The Neutral Zone
3. The New Beginning
The Stages of Career Redundancy and Retrenchment
The Realization of a New Stage
Activity — Where are You in Your Career Transformation?
Activity — View a Video — Case Study of Career Change and Reflective Questions
Activity — Confronting Challenges
Activity — View a Video — How to Cope During a Career Redundancy and Retrenchment
Activity — View a Video — Factors that Influence Career Decision-Making
Decision-Making Style
Strategies to Support a Career Decision
Speak with Individuals and those Working in the Industry
Research Information
Undertake Professional Reflection
Develop a Strategy to Address Needs and Interests
Creative Problem-Solving Model
Activity — Apply a Decision-Making Process
Networking to Reach Your Career Aspirations
1. Review your Current Role
2. Identify Your Career Goals
3. Review Your Strengths and Skills Gap
4. Research the Labor Market for Suitable Jobs
5. Plan Your Career Change and Design an Action Plan
Career Plateau
Activity — View a Video — What is a Portfolio Career?
Activity — View a Video — Tips to Move Your Career into 'Drive'
Pathways to Occupational Areas
1. Return to Tertiary Study or Vocational Training to Upgrade Qualifications
2. Transfer Skills and Knowledge to a New Industry or Job Role
3. Undertake Voluntary Work or Work Experience
4. Undertake an Apprenticeship, Traineeship, or Internship
5. Find Employment
6. Start a Small Business
Activity — Review Your Career Pathway
Attitude
Attitude 1 — Displays Self-pity and a ‘Victim’ Mentality
Attitude 2 — Displays a Reflective Learning Approach
Activity — View a Video — Strategies to Face a Challenge for a Positive Outcome
Introduction to the Modern Workplace
Careers in the 21st Century
Concurrent Multiple Careers
Sequential Multiple Careers
Employment Patterns
Activity — View a Video — Employment Patterns have Changed in the Past Decade
Work Skills and Employability
Personal Skills
Generic or Transferable Skills
Technical Skills
How can Employability Skills be Developed?
Activity — Assess Your Skills
A Career Journey in the Workplace
Impact of Organizational Forces: Internal and External
Impact of Personal, Social, and Environmental Factors
Activity — Reflect on Your Career Progress
Activity — Complete the Case Study
Building Your Professional Relationships
How to Build Relationships with People
Activity — Develop Your Professional Relationships
Your Work Ethic
Activity — View a Video — Elements of a Strong Work Ethic
Activity — Review Your Work Ethic
Emotional Intelligence
1. Self-Awareness
2. Self-Regulation
3. Motivation
4. Empathy
5. Social Skills
Activity — Questionnaire — How Emotionally Intelligent are You?
Activity — How Emotionally Intelligent are You?
Activity — View Videos on Emotional Intelligence
Six Steps to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
2. The Ability to Manage Stress
3. The Ability to Be Assertive and Express Difficult Emotions when Necessary
4. The Ability to Stay Proactive, Not Reactive in the Face of a Difficult Person
5. The Ability to Bounce Back from Adversity
6. The Ability to Express Intimate Emotions in Close, Personal Relationships
Activity — Develop an Emotionally Intelligent Self
Activity — Improve each Key Area of Emotional Intelligence
Professional Networking
Benefits of Networking
Networking Opportunities
Practices to Support Networking Opportunities
Tips to Network Effectively
Activity — Identify Your Network
Discover Career Opportunities
Identify Career Options
What is Long Learning?
Your Professional Self
Activity — Identify Your Learning and Development Needs
Learning Styles
Visual Learners
Auditory Learners
Kinaesthetic Learners
Activity — Identify Your Learning Style — Questionnaire
Your Professional Reflection
Activity — Progress Your Professional Development
Your Career Development Strategies
Strategies to Foster Learning and Movement within Organizations
Action Plans to Implement Visions, Goals, and Objectives
Activity — Envision your Future Self
The Last Stage of Your Program
1. Appreciate Your Gifts
2. Appreciate Your Unique Self
3. Find Meaning and Purpose
4. Do Things for Others
5. Aim to Be Positive, Reframe Situation
6. Do Some Exercise, Go For a Walk
7. Meet with a Special Person or Group of Friends
8. Focus on the Beauty in the World
9. Be Creative — Listen to Music, See Art
10. Say Affirmations
Conclusion
Activity — Write Your Action Plan
Please take few minutes to give us your feedback
This course may contribute towards Elective PD hours. Visit https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au for more details.
Leah Shmerling
