Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 3

Available for: All OU students

Lecture hours: 0
Seminarium:2
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: -

Prerequisites: none

Course Leader: Dr. Pogátsnik Monika

Faculty: Alba Regia Technical Faculty, 8000 Székesfehérvár, Budai út 45.

Course Description:
In this course, students will learn how to think strategically and professionally about your career self-management. Through this course students will develop an objective, external view of their marketable skills as a solid foundation for building a strong career brand. Students will be able to:
- explain why developing a career perspective based on transferable (portable) skills is advantageous for continuing employability and career growth;
- design their portable skills portfolio, identify and examine critically important competencies underpinning their transferable skills, and analyze their career self-management competency gaps;
- increase self-awareness, pinpoint their career goals, and envision their future work self;
- recognize the central role of self-management for developing transferable, marketable, skills and create a customized self-management information system (Career Development Lab) for ongoing personal development and professional growth;
- conduct a thorough, competency-based job analysis in their area of interest and examine practices of evidence-based, data-driven competitive employee selection;
-implement their newly developed skills for crafting effective selection criteria statements and refining their job applications.

Competences:
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Topics:
1. Getting Started. 21 century careers.
2. Understanding careers and career skills (soft and hard skills).
3. Self-discovery: your personality (Holland codes).
4. Self-discovery: your personality, (Myers-Briggs Types).
5. Self-discovery: core values.
6. Time management
7. Your career goals and future work self.
8. Competitve advantage: SWOT. Crafting career self-strategy.
9. Job application, CV and resume.
10. Entering the job market: interview, AC
11. Job offer and wage bargaining
12. Change of job

Assessment: ⁻ In each topic there is a digital curriculum in text and in video to proceed. ⁻ In each topic there is a homework assignment to complete. ⁻ In each topic there is a short test you to make at least 80%. You have 3 trials. ⁻ After all topic, homework assignment and practicing testis done, there is a final test to fulfill. You have only one trial.

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Test Exam

Compulsory bibliography: 1. Furnham A. (2017) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). In: Zeigler-Hill V., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. 2. Greenhaus,JH; Callanan,GA; Godshalk, VM(2010): Career management. SAGE, California 3. Murphy, M. (2011): Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude. US: McGraw-Hill. 4. Pintér Zsolt (2008): Hogyan csináljunk karriert? Bp., 5. Horton Kft.Quenk N. L. (2000) Essentials of Myers-Briggs type indicator assessment. J. Wiley & Sons. 6. Savickas, ML; Hartung, PJ(2012): My Career Story. Letölthető: http://www.vocopher.com/CSI/CCI_workbook.pdf

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