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Most professionals feel stuck in their careers not because they lack ability, but because they have never had a structured process for figuring out what they actually want, planning a path to get there, and presenting themselves compellingly to employers. Across three courses, you'll complete structured career audits grounded in values, priorities, and the Life Balance Wheel; build a vision-backed action plan with SMART goals and accountability systems; develop a targeted professional network through informational interviews and strategic outreach; and produce a complete, polished resume with an accomplishment-based professional summary, a structured work history, and a tailored education section. By the end of this Specialization, you'll be equipped to name your next career move, pursue it step by step, and arrive at every application and interview with a resume that captures employer attention.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Identity Crisis: How to Realign Your Career with Your Life
- Course 2: Planning Your Next Career Move
- Course 3: How to Build an Effective Resume
Courses
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Most job seekers are qualified for the roles they want, but a resume that blends in with the competition gets skipped in under ten seconds. The gap between getting called for an interview and getting ignored is not talent: it is how well your resume markets you to employers. In this course, you’ll work through every section of a resume from the ground up, gathering and organizing your career data, crafting a targeted objective and professional summary built from your strongest accomplishments, structuring your work history and education for maximum impact, and applying strategies for handling gaps, age concerns, and job-hopping scenarios. You’ll also learn to read a job posting to surface the accomplishments that belong at the top, and spot the errors that cause resumes to be passed over before they are read. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to produce a polished, targeted resume that captures employer attention within seconds and compels them to call you for an interview.
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Most people who feel stuck in their careers are not stuck because they lack talent or opportunity. They are stuck because they have never been given a structured way to figure out what they actually want, what is in their way, and what to do about it. This course gives you that structure. In this course, you will audit every dimension of your work and life, build the network and skills your next chapter requires, and practice the real conversations that turn a career change from an idea into a plan you can act on. Every module combines clear frameworks with applied activities that put you in real scenarios, so you leave each lesson with something you can use immediately, not just something you can describe. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to realign your career with the life you want to build, on your terms.
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More than half of working adults feel disengaged from their jobs, yet most never stop to ask why, or to decide where they actually want to go. This course gives you the tools to move from passive dissatisfaction to deliberate career direction, starting with the kind of honest self-examination that most career advice skips entirely. In this course, you’ll build self-awareness through structured reflection, clarify the values and purpose that should be driving your career decisions, set SMART goals tied to your real priorities, and create an action plan with the accountability structures to make it stick. You’ll also confront the fear-based obstacles that stop most people before they start, and you’ll leave with the practices that keep you moving when motivation fades. By the end, you’ll be equipped to identify the right next career move for your life and to pursue it with intention, clarity, and confidence.
Taught by
Madecraft