The Career Design Lab: Change your Job, Change your Life
Design a fulfilling career aligned with your values using design thinking and positive psychology principles.
Design a fulfilling career aligned with your values using design thinking and positive psychology principles.
This comprehensive course guides you through the career design process, helping you transition to a more fulfilling professional life. Led by University of California Santa Cruz life design educator Remy Franklin, the course combines insights from design thinking, positive psychology, and career coaching to help you discover your core strengths, define your values, and explore new career directions. Over four modules, you'll learn to differentiate between a job, a career, and a calling, identify your personal and professional priorities, and develop authentic networking strategies. The curriculum covers essential topics such as overcoming mental barriers, using coherence as a career guide, brainstorming career paths, and mastering job search techniques. By the end of the course, you'll have created a personalized career plan and gained practical skills for finding and securing your next professional opportunity, all while maintaining a positive mindset throughout your career transition.
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What you'll learn
Understand the difference between a job, a career, and a calling
Use strengths, values, skills, and beliefs as guides for career exploration
Apply design thinking principles to career planning and decision-making
Develop authentic networking strategies for professional connections
Create and evaluate multiple potential career paths
Master job search techniques, including resume writing and interviewing
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This course includes:
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12 quizzes,2 peer reviews
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There are 4 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive framework for career redesign, guiding learners through a transformative process to align their professional lives with their personal values and strengths. Through four intensive modules, participants explore the fundamental concepts of career satisfaction, delve into self-discovery exercises, learn design thinking approaches for career planning, and master strategic job search techniques. The curriculum balances theoretical knowledge with practical applications, incorporating activities such as strength assessments, value clarification exercises, and the creation of multiple career path prototypes. Learners develop critical skills in authentic networking, informational interviewing, and decision-making for career transitions. The course also addresses mindset challenges, offering strategies for maintaining positivity and resilience throughout the career change process. By combining insights from positive psychology, design thinking, and career coaching, this program equips participants with a robust toolkit for navigating career transitions and designing a fulfilling professional life.
Welcome to the Career Design Lab
Module 1 · 3 Hours to complete
Using Coherence as your Career Guide
Module 2 · 6 Hours to complete
Defining Your Next Career Move(s)
Module 3 · 5 Hours to complete
Strategies for Getting a Job
Module 4 · 5 Hours to complete
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Instructor
Coach and Educator at UC Santa Cruz Focused on Life Design and Personal Development
Remy Franklin is a coach and educator dedicated to helping individuals step back from daily pressures and align their lives with what truly matters. He teaches Life Design to college and graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Remy holds a BA in Music and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College and a master's in Human Geography from the University of Arizona. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) recognized by the International Coach Federation and serves as a mentor coach with the Academy for Coaching Excellence
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