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St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University

How to make your professional career

St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University via Coursera

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By means of this course, we would like to help young people to form their professional activity and career vision that would contribute to their professional development.

Would you like to manage your own professional development productively? Would you like to understand what influences you when building a career and how you can influence this process? This course is made to help you meet these needs.
Being aimed at the formation and development of soft skills, this course will help you to gain an understanding of successful professional activity components, as well as to form the ability to build the trajectory of professional development. You will learn to look at your professional activities so that the most important factors of your development do not escape you. You will get acquainted with ideas and tools that will allow you to ensure confident progress in your professional activities and generally improve the quality of your life.

Our course focuses on developing students' ability to manage their own professional development. The course is easy to study.
In this course, students will learn:
1. How to manage your professional activities?
2. In what conditions do we manage our professional activities?
3. How to form and strengthen your professional position?
4. How to use motivation and discipline in your professional life?

Syllabus

  • How do we manage our professional activity?
    • The first module of the course will allow you to pay attention to the fact that you should consider professional development and career growth in the context of self-realization. In other words, the factors, lying outside professional activity influence success.
  • In what conditions do we manage our professional activity?
    • The second module of the course will allow you to reevaluate the external environment. We will study the models of perception of our environment that will help us to see more potential opportunities, as well as to manage our own professional development with great success.
  • How do we form and strengthen our professional position?
    • The third module of the course will allow you to learn the difference between career markets and the rules of conduct on them. It aims to help you to avoid the traps in professional development and be more productive.
  • How can we use motivation and discipline in our professional activity?
    • The fourth module of the course will allow you to consider the professional activity as a set of motives and incentives, as well as teaches you how to manage them. In the module, the issue of habit management will also be considered.

Taught by

Vladimir Merkuriev and Kirill Tomilin

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