Do you sometimes wish you were more resilient when faced with changes at work? Do you have career plans but feel unsure about progressing with them? If you do, then this free course, Developing career resilience, will help you to build your resilience and approach career-related change with greater confidence and motivation.TranscriptEnrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development.Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge.The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey. Once you complete the course we would also value your feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others.This course is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. It can be used to provide evidence of continuing professional development and on successful completion of the course you will be awarded 24 CPD points. Evidence of your CPD achievement is provided on the free Statement of Participation awarded on completion.Anyone wishing to provide evidence of their enrolment on this course is able to do so by sharing their Activity Record on their OpenLearn Profile, which is available before completion of the course and earning of the Statement of Participation.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: What is resilience?
- Introduction
- 1 What is resilience?
- 2 Personal resilience
- 2.1 About you: life change and stress factors
- 2.2 Identifying your Holmes–Rahe stress factors
- 2.3 Identifying additional stress factors
- 3 Career resilience
- 3.1 Why is career resilience important today?
- 3.2 Career resilience and personal development
- 3.3 Career resilience and change
- 4 Resilience and change
- 4.1 Problems with a model of change?
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Personal resilience – born or made?
- Introduction
- 1 How do we identify resilient people?
- 2 Is resilience in our DNA?
- 3 Learning to be resilient
- 4 Your personal resilience through time
- 4.1 Growing your own capacity for resilience
- 4.2 Growing resilience – a case study
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: Assessing your resilience
- Introduction
- 1 Reflecting on your current resilience
- 1.1 Models of resilience
- 1.2 Resilience quizzes
- 2 Understanding your values
- 3 Collecting feedback
- 4 How recruiters assess your resilience
- 4.1 Coping with rejection
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week4Week 4: Career resilience – dealing with external challenges
- Introduction
- 1 Career resilience when the world changes
- 1.1 Climate change
- 1.2 Catastrophic events
- 1.3 Political events
- 2 Career resilience when the world of work changes
- 2.1 Changing workplace demographics
- 2.2 Advances in technology
- 2.3 Flexible working
- 3 Career resilience when your employer makes changes
- 3.1 Redundancy
- 3.2 Staffing changes
- 4 Team resilience and how to support it
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week5Week 5: Career resilience – moving forward
- Introduction
- 1 Self-esteem and self-efficacy
- 1.1 What is self-esteem?
- 1.2 What is self-efficacy?
- 2 Achieving goals and dealing with setbacks
- 2.1 Dealing with setbacks
- 2.2 Achieving goals using the GROW model
- 3 Developing a career narrative
- 3.1 Successful career narratives
- 3.2 Your own career narrative
- 4 Reflection and reframing
- 4.1 Reframing
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week6Week 6: Building resilience – sources of support
- Introduction
- 1 Internal support for resilience
- 1.1 Maintaining good physical health
- 1.2 Developing self-esteem
- 1.3 Motivation and reward
- 2 External support for resilience
- 2.1 Financial resilience
- 2.3 Support from your employer
- 2.4 Developing your networks
- 3 Professional support
- 3.1 Coaching and careers advice
- 3.2 Counselling
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Week7Week 7: Building resilience – skills
- Introduction
- 1 Employability skills for career resilience
- 1.1 Planning and preparation
- 1.2 Effective communication
- 1.3 Problem solving
- 2 The four Cs of career adaptability
- 3 Understanding the idea of ‘control’
- 5 Making yourself more employable
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week8Week 8: Using career resilience – what next?
- Introduction
- 1 Reflecting on your learning
- 2 Setting your goals
- 2.1 Long-term goals
- 2.2 Short-term goals
- 2.3 Taking action
- 2.4 Be realistic
- 3 Careers of the future
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary
- Tell us what you think
- Where next?
- References
- Acknowledgements
