PREVIEW
SHARECourse Info
9 video lessons (62 Mins)
Published
2018
Preview Course
Browse Course Chapters
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1.Introduction
4 mins
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2.What Is My Work?
5 mins
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3.What Work Setting?
5 mins
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4.Using Self-Assessment Tools
3 mins
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5.The Real You: Owning Strengths and Outsmarting Doubt
4 mins
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6.Making Choices
6 mins
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7.The Resume, Cover Letter, and Application Game
14 mins
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8.Cultivating and Benefiting From Mentors
11 mins
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9.Putting the Pieces Together
6 mins
What You Will Learn
- Understand and create a career map as a tool for managing ongoing choices.
- Learn about an expanded range of opportunities for planning work.
- Know the pros and cons of working in different types of planning organizations.
- Acquire tools and perspectives to assess one’s preferred ways of working to find alignment with ideal jobs.
- Develop practical strategies for responding to self-doubt.
- Hone decision-making capabilities to support ongoing career choices.
- Master the resume, cover letter and application process.
- Understand the multiple types of mentoring and develop a mentor map to make a game plan for peer support.
Course Description
The planning profession offers many types of work in support of important public objectives, so planners face many choices about launching and re-launching their careers.
This course is based on the idea that planners are most effective when their jobs are well-matched with their characteristics and goals. We will discuss everything that a prospective or junior planner needs to know to chart a fulfilling career.
Learn these skills
- Career Development
AICP CM
This course is approved for 1 AICP CM credit.
SACPLAN CPD
This course is approved for 1 SACPLAN CPD point.
