Modules 2–5
Career Imagination Lab—Modules 2–5 of the Five-Part Web Series
If you’ve completed Module 1, you’re now ready for the remaining lessons and practical exercises for the Professional Development Workshop.
Let’s pick up where you left off. Just scroll down and start the course.
Modules 2-5 will take you from here to a plan you can act on right away. With more videos, the complete Workbook, and our guidance, you'll work through:
Getting the help and support you need
Identifying and developing the right skills
Recognizing and building on your strengths
Creating a useful plan that fits your life
This is how we can help you get good work… and enough of it.
Join us for our next zoom clinic with our Sauder School of Business instructors. You can find details on our events page. You have unlimited access until Labour Day.
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Module 2: Social Networks—you help me and I'll help you.
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Understanding Professional Social Networks
Your social network is one of your most powerful assets for career growth and transition. Thinking about your social network as part of the work process can help you be smart about how you engage with other people. 3:00
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Expanding Your Social Network
You can expand your professional social network in various ways, starting with informal conversations with people you know and building to associates and more distant connections. 3:30
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Mentorship
A good mentor will guide, critique, and encourage you. They’ll teach you, promote you, and act as a model. Mentors not only help us learn our jobs, but they can also help us get jobs and offer career guidance. You’ll offer gratitude, kindness and help in return. 4:20
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Introversion & Extraversion
Regardless of how introverted or extraverted you are, you need to use and develop your professional social network. 3:45
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Your Place in the Team
The people we work with are key to our professional success. Even if you prefer to work alone and keep to yourself, you’re still part of a bigger team. Teams are fundamental to our work experience, and you always have an important role to play. 2:30
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Module 3: Upskilling—learning more, working better.
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Skills in Demand
The modern job market demands continuous learning.Employers are consistently looking for both soft and hard skills. This is good news for you because with this knowledge you can upskill and fill a need. 2:35
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Skill Development
From consulting a colleague to online courses with micro credentials, there are many ways to get your desired skills; there is no one best way. 5:00
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Skill Development Outside of Work
Lifelong learning is key to career success and it can take many forms. Many of the skills we use at work we have developed outside work: at home, in the community. 3:00
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Module 4: Building Your Strengths & Achieving Excellence
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Building Your Strengths
When you lean into your strengths, you develop and demonstrate your passion, conviction, depth, and most importantly, your confidence. And even better, this is inspiring to other people. 3:15
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Navigating Career Transitions
Career transitions often bring challenges like self-doubt, fear of change, and potentially periods of unemployment (statistically, on average it take 5 months to find a new job). Here we help you recognize and address these barriers. 3:20
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Excellence and Professionalism
Professionalism is an important part of excellence and is essential to be to build your career—at any stage. Professionalism also makes you easier to work with and helps you build your professional social network. 6:00
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Module 5: Putting Career Imagination into Action & Making a Plan
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Career Imagination Action Plan
Here we revisit the Career Imagination process and help you revise and refine your short list of career possibilities. 3:30
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Career Plan & Networking
A plan is a series of steps laid out in order so that they can be followed to a successful conclusion, leading you to just where you want to be. Here we help you build your career change action plan. 2:15
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Perseverance
Changing careers can be challenging, stressful, and take longer than expected. Making, adapting, and shifting your plan are all things that can get you to the finish line. 2:45
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A Final Note
We hope that the Career Imagination Lab will provide you with some path to dream big and turn dreams into reality.
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