Building and Managing Your Career Plan
Your career path can take many twists and turns. In this course you’ll learn how to create and work a career plan to work towards your career goals while navigating inevitable changes.
What you'll learn
Your career can be a source of stress or resentment, or it can be a source of joy and fulfillment. Having a solid career plan can help you achieve the latter. In this course, Building and Managing Your Career Plan, you will learn how create a vision based on your goals and come up with a plan to work towards your vision. First, you will learn about navigating and handling change in your career. Next, you will discover how to put your plans into actions, and how to find or create joy, happiness, and satisfaction. By the end of this course you will be able to create a realistic and rewarding career plan that will help you to get the most out of your career.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Identify Your Target Jobs 1m
- Working Backwards from Titles 7m
- An Example of Working Backwards 5m
- Four Keys to Career Success 4m
- Building Your Path in a SMART Way 4m
- The Reality of the Path 3m
- The Rules of Getting a Job 4m
- Mentoring Relationships 4m
- Actively Monitoring Opportunities 5m
- Career Management and Diets 3m
- Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Daniel the CIO 3m
- Happiness, Joy, and Satisfaction 4m
- Lessons from Booker T. Washington 4m
- Changes to Joy, Happiness, and Satisfaction 4m
- Navigating Change 5m
- Fulfillment through Purpose 5m
- Job Bait-and-switch 3m
- Techniques to Nurture Happiness 4m
- Frank Talk About Depression 2m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Jason Alba has been a Pluralsight Author since 2012, specializing in soft skills and professional development. He started his IT career as an intern developing tools for a robust intranet. He transitioned to an IT manager at another company where his job included web development as well as other IT functions. After an acquisition Jason became VP and then general manager at a newly formed tech company. He founded and manages JibberJobber.com, a CRM for job seekers. Jason has authored three books.... more