Building and Promoting Your Personal Brand
Teamwork
Organizational Skills
Resume Development
Job Interview Questions and Responses
Time Management and Productivity
Program Management
Leadership
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Customer Service
Vision and Goal Setting
Crafting Your Own Identity: Insights from Matthew McConaughey
Why Do I Succeed, with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Creating a Vision Board: canva.com
What is it?
Your personal brand is what people think and say about you when you're not in the room.
So the best way for you to create it is first for you to decide, what do I want to be known for? Is it a skill? Is it a quality? Is it how you make people feel? All of this is tied to your personal brand.
Once you know what it is, then it's the hard part of you living it every single day, because the people who get ahead in their careers are all known for something. What's going to be your one thing?
Accelerating Your Career with Personal Branding, with Shadé Zahrai
Nano Tips for Advancing Your Career, with Sho Dewan
The Elevator Pitch
Create a Powerful Elevator Pitch From the course: Communication Tips to Accelerate Your Career with Jessica Chen
Communicate Your Quality: The World's Best Elevator Pitch, from Nano Tips for a Pitch That Persuades without Pressure with Alex James.
Job Interview Questions and Responses
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Day One: Create Your Plan
Determine your target job: "Analyze Five"
Analyze Job Descriptions: Review multiple job descriptions to identify common required skills that you possess.
Highlight Patterns: Look for overlaps and patterns in the job descriptions to determine the most crucial themes and messaging. (Little or no career experience? Focus on transferable skills if you are new to the profession or workforce. See video: Create a Resume with Little or No Career Experience.)
Tailor Your Resume: Use the identified skills and themes to craft your resume summary and experience sections, ensuring they align with what employers are looking for.
Resources:
Day Two: Develop Your Resume
The Draft
Resume and Media Design
Canva - for designing professional-looking images
Pexels - for finding professional images free-for-use
Day 3: Review and Finalize Your Resume
Get teacher input
Ask 3 people with experience to review it
Revise and finalize
Create your "ATS" scannable version
Communication within Teams with Daisy Lovelace
Thought Leaders
Dale Carnegie: “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Brene Brown: “The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it's about the courage to show up when you can't predict or control the outcome.”
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Resources
Tips for Leading Yourself with Elizabeth Lotardo and Lisa Earle McLeod
Personality Types
Strategies for Working with Each Color
Careertest.net
Speaking and Listening
Effective Listening, with Brenda Bailey-Hughes and Tatiana Kolovou
"I" Versus "You" Statements, Youtube video by My People Patterns
Tools for making yourself vulnerable in order to genuinely solve the issue with someone while having a difficult conversation
Working with Difficult People, with Chris Croft
Conflict Resolution
Giving and Receiving Feedback
When feedback really is a gift (YouTube Short)
Communicating with Diplomacy and Tact, with Tatiana Kolovou
Tact and Diplomacy: Tact involves attentive listening, rapport, politeness, and empathy. Diplomacy is the mindset used to analyze different situations.
Soft Skills Importance: Strong soft skills, including tact and diplomacy, are highly valued in the workplace and can significantly impact your professional reputation.
Written Communication
Body Language
Artificial Intelligence in Project Planning, with Chris Croft and David Birss
Better Meetings, from One-minute Habits for Success with Scott Mautz
Schedulers