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The Complete Career Strategy & Job Change course
Getting started
How to use this course (7:54)
Quick Self-Coaching in Half an Hour
Preparing to define what you want from your career
Kick start your Self-Awareness
How are you sabotaging your own career or career change? Career derailers, Biases and Stuckness
How to use this module (7:38)
Failure to plan - and the methods we recommend to plan & hold yourself accountable on this course
Procrastination - and the methods we recommend to plan & hold yourself accountable on this course
The Bandwagon Effect
Authority Bias
Discounting
Impostor thinking/ Low Self-Confidence
Confirmation bias
Contrast effect
The Fear of Missing Out & Regret
The Focusing effect
The Framing effect
Impact bias
Loss Aversion
Sunk Cost Fallacy
Mere Exposure effect
Availability Heuristic
Recency Bias
Wishful Thinking
Stereotyping
Halo effect
Resistance to Change & Fear of the Unknown
Narcissistic thinking/Over Self-Confidence
Cynicism
Busy-ness: Motion ≠ Progress
Reflection & Coaching
Career strategy
Learning Objectives
Preparing to make a distinct career change or reinvent your career
Developing Career Strategy to fit your Context (3:01)
You cannot separate Work & Life
Specialise or Generalise?
Move faster or slower? (2:34)
Making long-term assumptions (2:53)
Making short-term assumptions (2:43)
Determinant vs Emergent career strategies (4:13)
Determinant career strategies (4:51)
Managing your Determinant strategy: Career Pathing (3:10)
Emergent career strategies (3:11)
Managing your Emergent strategy: Career Optimisation
Conclusion: FOMO and the agony of choice (5:03)
Reflection & Coaching
What do you want?
Learning Objectives
Defining what you want from your next career choice (2:04)
Visualisation techniques
Values (7:51)
Motivation (13:44)
Interests, Flow & Passion (3:45)
The pursuit of passion, purpose and Ikigai
Preferences - What culture and work environment are the right fit for you? (5:16)
Habituation: How our interests & preferences may dim over time
Job satisfaction
Edgar Schein's Career Orientations Inventory
What do you Want today? (1:57)
Hedonic treadmill: The consequences of getting what you want
Reflection & Coaching
Self-Awareness: Psychometric assessments
Learning Objectives
What professionals need to know about personality (8:43)
Preparing for the Psychometric assessments for career choice module (4:01)
Interpreting your Five Factor results
Openness to New Experience (2:00)
Conscientiousness (1:52)
Extroversion (1:56)
Agreeableness (2:31)
Neuroticism/Negative Emotionality (1:16)
The application of your personality preferences to the career/job change process
Other Assessments: Hogan Leadership Forecast Assessments
Other Assessments: DISC
When an Recruiter asks you to take an Assessment
Positive Psychology tools for Careers
Reflection & Coaching
Fix your Target
Learning Objectives
Defining your Target (4:28)
Step 1: Explore (12:18)
Explore with a side-hustle
Optimal stopping: when do you stop exploring?
Step 2: Fix your Goal (5:35)
Step 3: Focus (7:06)
Changing role
Changing industry
Changing location
Mapping out how you will get from here to there
Reflection & Coaching
Starting your Job Search: Hit your Target
Learning Objectives
What is Available in the job market today? (1:36)
What’s your career Goal today? (4:08)
Reconciling your Goal with Availability in the Market (4:23)
Refining 1 Target Job into 100 New Options
Job-Crafting: How to Redesign your own Job
Job-Sculpting: Collaborating to Redesign your Job
Alternative career paths to management
The Entrepreneurial route to employment: Proposing new products, markets or businesses
Mid-Career Internship
Family Business v Employment
Entrepreneurship v Employment
Active or Passive Job Search?
Can you keep your Job Search a Secret?
Plan & Track your Job Search
Reflection & Coaching
Assessing Readiness & Transferable skills & experience
Learning Objectives
What are you Capable of today? (1:13)
Am I ready?
Who decides if I am ready?
Am I ready? Action Plan
How do you get experience if you do not already have experience?
From Individual Contributor to Manager
What got you here, won't get you there
Assessing your Capabilities (4:02)
Transferable Skills (12:49)
Transferable Skills Gap Analysis
Self-initiated Education & Professional Development
Too old to change?
Reflection & Coaching
Promotion
BETA TEST module - all your comments, questions & content ideas are very welcome!
Understanding what constitutes a Promotion
Understanding the formal, informal & unwritten rules of the Promotion Process
Are you ready for promotion?
Motivation: Do you want promotion?
Making a plan to achieve Promotion
Active or Passive promotion campaign?
Aiming for your Boss's Job, Deputising & Acting up
Should You Tell Your Boss?
Volunteering, stretching & non-promotable tasks
Influencing Talent Committees and other Decision Makers
Peers, competitors and other interested parties
Responding to failure to get a promotion
How do promoted professionals adapt to the new role?
Reflection & Coaching
Personal branding
Learning Objectives
Preparing for the Personal Branding module
What is Personal Branding? (3:11)
Self-Authoring, Personal Narratives & Personal Branding
How does Google present your Personal Brand? (3:39)
Auditing your Social Media (5:08)
How is your Personal Brand perceived? (3:15)
The Personal Branding process (5:31)
Personal Branding action plan (3:29)
Build your Personal Brand statement
Reflection & Coaching
LinkedIn for Personal Branding & Job Search
Learning Objectives
7-day LinkedIn Action Plan
Using LinkedIn for your active job search
Using LinkedIn for your passive job search (2:48)
The elements of the LinkedIn profile (14:37)
Linked keywords
Headline, Headshot & Banner
Writing your 'About' statement
The 'Experience' section
Skills, Endorsements, and Recommendations
Education & Certifications
Posting, Commenting & the Featured section
Following & Joining Groups
Making Connections
How your LinkedIn profile supports your personal brand (3:24)
Use LinkedIn data to advance your job search (8:23)
Tuning your LinkedIn profile to your objective (6:28)
Reflection & Coaching
CV & Cover Letter Writing
Learning Objectives
Defining terms: CV, Resume and Cover Letter
Adapt your Model CV for each application (1:17)
CV Rapid Action Plan
How to analyse a Job Description or Job Ad for CV writing
How Employers Use your CV
Tuning your CV for algorithms
CV layout - Stand out & Fit in (2:52)
Chronological or Skills-based CV?
Summary & Objective statements (1:24)
Demonstrating your capability with your prior experience (5:29)
The Team's Results are the Manager's Results
How Team Members Demonstrate Individual Impact
Show Don't Tell: Demonstrating soft-skills without directly stating them
Achievement language: Active, Assertive Verbs
Achievement language: Quantifying your Impact
Education & Languages (2:00)
Personal interests & other experience (1:44)
Professional language: adverbs, adjectives & clarity
How your CV is used for pre-employment screening
3 ways to review your own CV & check for common errors
Keep your CV Up-to-Date
Introduction to Cover Letters (5:35)
Why use a Cover Letter (3:51)
The opening paragraph (5:45)
Andrew's Cover Letter format & tips (2:42)
The Cover Letter ends with a Call to Action (3:50)
Reflection & CV Review
Becoming a thought leader for career advancement
Learning Objectives
What is Thought Leadership?
30-Day Plan to become a thought leader in parallel with a job (8:12)
Find your Audience
Find your Niche
Find your Voice
Ethics of thought leadership
30-Day Blog Launch Plan (10:04)
Setting up your Blog (7:20)
Writing articles or blog posts
Blogging case studies (3:26)
Reflection & Coaching
Networking & Coffee Chats
Learning Objectives
The case for Networking (8:57)
The two uses of Networking: Visibility & Job Search
What does it take to be a good Networker?
Types of Networking: Event v One-to-One & Offline v Online
Types of Networker: Bridges, Brokers & Beyond
Types of Contact Behavior
Plan, Track and Measure the Value of your Networking
Overcoming your resistance to Networking
Map your Network
Don't let your network go cold
Is your Professional Network ready for you to start a job search today?
Networking with potential hiring managers
Networking with Incumbents & Competitors
Should I network with Head Hunters? If so, what do I say?
Should I network with HR professionals?
The Informational Interview or Coffee Chat
How do you invite someone for a coffee chat? (5:00)
Coffee-chat invitation templates by connection type
Professional purposes that can increase your invitation's chances of success
Planning informational interviews
Setting up the coffee chat
Building rapport & starting a relationship
What will you say during a coffee chat? (3:45)
Following up after a coffee chat
Networking with Alumni
How to network at conferences & other events
Working the Room & Moving from Group to Group (41:58)
Starting, sustaining & ending useful networking conversations
Following up after a conference or networking event
How to keep your network warm
Create your own Networking Event
Reflection & Coaching
Interview skills
Learning Objectives
How to use the interview preparation guidance
What you will need
Preparing for your Interview or mock interview
How to analyse a Job Description or Job Ad
Answering the 'Tell me about yourself' question (5:54)
Answering the "You seem to change jobs frequently..." questions
Illustrating your aptitude and attitude (5:42)
Preparing to talk about your achievements (4:00)
Over/Under-qualification concerns
Answering behavioral questions to help the interviewer (6:57)
Why is this the right job for you? (1:37)
Why are you the right person for this job? Why should we hire you? (2:54)
What salary/package are you looking for and more risky questions (4:27)
Why do you want to leave your last employer?
Questions about the longer-term: motivation, intention and interests (4:16)
The leadership style question
What is your strategy/action plan for this role?
Being vulnerable in the interview (3:40)
The Failure question (2:27)
The Weakness question (3:11)
Questions about ethics
Questions about Education & Internships (4:58)
Appearance, handshakes & entry
Building Rapport with the interviewer
Taking the Interviewers perspective: Show & Tell (7:23)
How to respond to the interviewer's behavioural queues & apparent biases
How interviewers dig deeper for fit (9:47)
Self-Confidence & showing Confidence in interviews (10:14)
More questions
Asking questions at the end of an interview
How to close the interview & leave the room (4:09)
Online interviews (5:43)
Informal interviews: Meals & Fireside Chats
After the Interview
Reflection & Coaching
Career choice evaluation & decision-making
Learning Objectives
How to make a difficult career decision
FOMO & Intuition influences on your evaluation (1:12)
When I receive an offer, what options do I have? (5:03)
When should I choose? (4:59)
Designing & applying my evaluation criteria (6:07)
Choosing between Employer Brands
Choosing between Cultures
Evaluating a Startup
Evaluating job offers (4:58)
Managing competing offers/opportunities
Reflection & Coaching
Salary & contract negotiation
Learning Objectives
Preparing for salary & contract negotiation
Objective: What are you negotiating for? (6:34)
Who are you negotiating with?
Negotiation Tactics (8:13)
Salary bargaining (9:31)
Market data (3:16)
Negotiating and clarifying Probation terms
Bonus/Promotion eligibility, timing and process
Negotiating with a Startup
Clarifying objectives and how they are evaluated
Handling "Sign before you leave the room"
Accepting an Offer
Declining an Offer
Delays, Deadends & Feeling Ghosted
Handling Rejections
Reflection & Coaching
Perforance Improvement Plans
Learning Objectives
What is a Performance Improvement Plan?
Minimising the risk of a Performance Improvement Plan
Potential Legal and ethical traps
Navigating a Performance Improvement Plan
Warning signs
PIP Closure Meeting
Managing Negative/Unexpected PIP Outcomes
Managing positive PIP outcomes
Reflection & Coaching
NEW MODULE Resigning, Termination and Leaving
BETA TEST module - all your comments, questions & content ideas are very welcome!
Learning Objectives
Termination/Redundancy: Preparing for the worst while expecting the best
Responding to the termination of your job
Termination questions
After termination
Crafting your narrative after termination
Next steps
When is it time to quit?
Evaluating Stay or Go?
Planning to resign
Communicating your Resignation
Resignation Letter
Handling your manager's response to your resignation
Responding to Counter Offers
Communicating your resignation
Between resigning and leaving
Handing over
Exit interview
Garden Leave
Next steps
Reflection & Coaching
Transition & Success in New Role
Learning Objectives
Between signing and joining - Action Plan
Common mistakes new joiners make and gaps in company onboarding processes
What is your planning horizon? (6:46)
Day 0 to Day 90 Action Plan (6:21)
Managing your Personal Transition
Managing your Network through Transition
First meeting with you manager
Managing your Probation period for confirmation
How big is your change challenge? (4:50)
Introducing: What will you say first? (10:20)
Culture
C-Level priorities in the first 90 days
Leader of leaders' priorities in the first 90 days
Middle Management priorities in the first 90 days
New Manager priorities in the first 90 days
What else do you need to learn? (4:13)
Identify & meet your key stakeholders (7:32)
Quick Wins
Managing Unexpected Probation Outcomes
After Completing a Successful Probation
What's next? (1:58)
Reflection & Coaching
How to use Mentors, Coaches and Sponsors
Making the most of your professional network
Mentor
Sponsorship
Career Guide/Career Coach
Role Model
Career Advisor
Personal Guide
Personal Advisor
What can go wrong?
How to find a Mentor
Reflection & Coaching
CV layout - Stand out & Fit in
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