Career Planning: Coaching, Personal Brand, CV, 250+ Tools

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

257 tools for career planning in one course: 165 ready-to-use question lists, procedures, templates, scales and checklists, 72 models and methods, 17 services and apps shown on screen, and 3 downloadable tool files.

Open a lecture, take the tool, fill it in for yourself.

Why most careers are not planned

A career is usually a chain of reasonable answers to what was offered. After fifteen years its shape is a surprise even to the person who lived it. It works until the next step stops being obvious. Then “what do I want to be” gives either a job title borrowed from someone else or a blank, because the answer needs information about yourself that you have not collected.

What changes after this course

You collect that information with tools and not with reflection alone: talents, values, a ten-year vision, a skills audit. You know what personality tests say about you and what they do not. You can describe yourself in the language employers use to assess people. You have a profile and a CV that can be found and read, and a plan for the conversation about pay.

What is inside: 257 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 165 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 57 question lists and scripts: coaching readiness test, talent discovery questions, burnout symptoms questionnaire, interview question and answer scripts
• 34 step-by-step procedures and workflows: ten-year vision exercise, values discovery procedure, personal financial planning procedure, Have-Do-Be development method
• 29 templates and sample documents: career path map, resume structure template, cover letter template, career goals template
• 23 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: skills balance wheel, career transition options matrix, career options scoring matrix, salary growth strategy matrix
• 20 checklists: resume formatting checklist, LinkedIn profile checklist, personal brand audit checklist, salary discussion preparation checklist
• 1 ready AI prompt: assessment center exercise design prompt chain
• 1 other working tool: ideal job worksheet
• 72 models and methods explained with examples: MBTI, DISC, PAEI model, Belbin team roles, Big Five personality model, CliftonStrengths, competency iceberg model
• 17 services and apps shown on screen, from a quick look to a detailed demo: LinkedIn, 16Personalities, HIGH5, VIA Character Strengths Survey, Photofeeler, ChatGPT, Hogan Assessments and others
• 3 downloadable tool files: Career direction sheet, MAXIMUM career options analysis workbook, MaximumMoney financial planning workbook

Where the tools are

• Career coaching (4 sections, 72 tools). The dream career, talents and values, impostor syndrome, skills audit, search strategy, applications, personal financial planning and burnout.
• Personality typologies (2 sections, 13 tools). MBTI, DISC, PAEI, Belbin, Hogan, Big Five and 16 Personalities.
• Competencies (3 sections, 125 tools). What a competency is, how a model is built, described and assessed. This is the largest block; it is written from the employer’s side and shows how you will be assessed.
• Career goals, skills and a personal brand (3 sections, 58 tools). Goals, a development plan, a personal brand, career paths, mentors and coaches.
• Job search (2 sections, 37 tools). The recruiter’s logic, the CV, the interview, pay negotiation and LinkedIn.

What this course is not

It is not a career coach certification and not psychological counselling. It is a set of tools for your own decisions, and you receive the Udemy Certificate of Completion.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

I use these tools on my own career. I have rewritten my LinkedIn profile about fifty times; before I worked on it, 865 people viewed it in 90 days, and after the rework it was 2,264. In 2014 Wargaming invited me to a role abroad. I did not want to move, so I named 10,000 dollars, while my resume said 5,000. The negotiation took more than a week, and we agreed on 7,000, though the company had planned to pay 5,000 at most.

How to use the course

Start with the first lecture and its career direction sheet. Then watch the career coaching sections in order. Open the rest by your task: personality tests, competencies, personal brand or job search. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 39 lectures across 15 sections, 15.5 hours
• 40 downloadable resources: 3 tool files and the lecture presentations
• 257 tools across the lessons, ready to fill in for yourself
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Take the two options you are choosing between now. Open the first lecture, fill in the career direction sheet and see which one fits your next ten years. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.

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