5912156: FU_Career Success (online course)

Description

This course is provided through Coursera and is offered by the University of California, Irvine.

This series of courses will help you build, develop and hone the essential skills needed to improve your employability and advancement in today’s dynamic workforce. The courses in this Specialization may be taken in any order. Each course can also be taken independently. The Specialization concludes with a Capstone project that will give you the opportunity to integrate and apply the skills you have gained throughout the courses to your individual and organizational needs.

Career Success

Applied Learning Project

The purpose of the Capstone Project in the Career Success Specialization is for you to apply the methods and techniques you learned in the series of courses to a personal experience, giving you a way to communicate your value to potential employers. You’ll focus your communication, management, negotiation, problem solving, business writing, time management, finance, entrepreneurship, and project management skills into a single project that demonstrates your career readiness.

Instructor: David Standen, MBA (University of California, Irvine) and others.

This FU consists of 3 courses (select any 3 of the 4 contained in this specialization, if you do all 4 courses, the best 3 count):

Course 1: Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity
Course 2: Effective Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
Course 3: Communication in the 21st Century Workplace
Course 4: High-Impact Business Writing

The course starts on 10th of February 2025.
The course must be completed by 23rd of May 2025.

All parts of this course are free of charge.

Lecture Goals

• Write effective presentations, emails, writing for visual communication
• Edit and proofread business documents
• Create business reports and press releases
• Spot, correct and avoid the most common writing pitfalls

Lectures Method

Online courses

Admission Requirements

English B1/B2
No previous experience necessary

Please note:The online course is provided via the platform of the provider Coursera, Inc. Here you can find more information about the processing of your data required for this: www.coursera.org/about/privacy . If you do not agree to the data processing, it will not be possible to study the course. In this case, please select one of the numerous on-campus courses.