Leap Forward! Essential Skills for Career Transformation and Professional Growth
About This Course
This module equips participants with the skills needed to enhance their career prospects in today’s competitive market. Combining personal branding, data analysis, and persuasive communication, this module empowers participants to navigate the modern job search and workplace effectively.
The module includes:
1. Getting Ready for Your Next Job: Learn essential job search strategies, including crafting attention-grabbing resumes, acing interviews (in-person or virtual), and building a personal brand on professional networking platforms like LinkedIn.
2. Digital Marketing for Personal Branding: Discover how to use digital marketing tools to establish and promote your personal brand. Understand the impact of a strong online presence and create a digital marketing strategy that boosts your visibility to potential employers.
3. Data Analysis and Decision-Making with Excel: Gain foundational skills in data analysis using Microsoft Excel. Learn how to manage, interpret, and visualise data to make informed decisions, meeting the growing demand for data-driven competencies in today’s job market.
4. Persuasive Communication with Data Storytelling: Use the art of data storytelling to influence stakeholders and drive action. Learn how to create compelling data visualisations and craft persuasive narratives that effectively communicate insights and recommendations.
This module is ideal for participants seeking to improve their employability, enhance personal branding, and sharpen analytical and communication skills to succeed in their career transition.
What You'll Learn
1. Identify own skills and competencies acquired through learning and experience
2. Interpret information on job advertisements to establish job requirements
3. Design an effective resume using relevant information, suitable format and layout, and appropriate language structures that will get the attention of prospective employers
4. Explain the purpose of job interviews and prepare for job interviews conducted face-to-face and digitally
5. Craft and communicate clear and compelling responses to interview questions to show suitability for the job
6. Demonstrate appropriate social etiquette skills to connect with interviewers and leave a positive impression
7. Explain the importance of having a complete LinkedIn profile and use branding strategies to build a professional online presence on LinkedIn
8. Use features of LinkedIn effectively to prepare for the next job
9. Explain the impact of digital marketing on personal branding
10. Identify the drivers of personal branding towards future employment opportunities
11. Develop a personal branding through digital marketing for one’s digital footprint
12. Collect and manage Business Data using Excel.
13. Utilise Excel to construct charts, enabling the interpretation and analysis of business data for clearer insights.
14. Develop comprehensive dashboards using PivotTables and PivotCharts in Excel to synthesise data into actionable information.
15. Employ Excel's What-If Analysis and Solver tools for informed decision-making by assessing various scenarios and optimising outcomes.
16. Examine the different pre-attentive features and visualisations of Factor or Anomaly data stories
17. Consolidate findings from the combined data and visualisations to form or support a focal point of the story
18. Deliver a persuasive data story
Entry Requirements
Higher NITEC or Diploma