DEVELOP PROFESSIONAL IMAGE AND COMPETENCE TO ACHIEVE PERSONAL CAREER GOALS
Course Duration
16 hr(s)
Who Should Attend
This course is targeted for the general public to develop a professional image and competence to achieve personal career goals. The programme will enhance their knowledge to leverage traditional and new media tools to develop personal branding and professional image through the conduct of market research, networking and presentation to achieve personal career goals
Course Overview
With the changes happening in the digital era, people are getting much more connected in every way. The landscape of social engagement has changed with the evolution of how people interact with a combination of physical and virtual engagement. The idea of developing a professional image and competence to achieve personal career goals has also shifted in multiple directions.
The ways of career planning and developing of professional image could potentially be position as a face to face meeting or building a presence online. Barriers to communication are slowly disappearing, where social circles are growing. The new changes provide many opportunities for businesses and potential candidates seeking the best-fit collaboration.
The programme will enhance knowledge to leverage traditional and new media tools to develop personal branding and professional image through the conduct of market research, networking and presentation to achieve personal career goals
Hybrid Work Environment
The future of the workplace is a hybrid that brings people and technology together wherever work needs to happen. Working in a hybrid environment will never be the same working style as before. Organizations must continue to retain autonomy and flexibility while delivering the organization goals together with their hybrid workforce. This module will enable the learner to leverage traditional and new media tools to develop organization branding and their professional image through market research, networking, and presentation to achieve career goals while keeping in line with the organization long term vision.
Course Objectives
Learn the skillset to create a presence in digital world
- Develop and maintain professional image to project personal brand.
- Aspects and benefits of personal branding.
- Integration of traditional media.
Learn the skillset to promote individual professionalism
- Assess personal competencies to formulate personal career goals.
- Characteristics of professional image.
- Use effective presentation skills to promote personal competencies and brand to secure job or assignments.
Hybrid Work Environment
On completion of this unit, the participant will be able to perform the following:
- Assess personal competencies to formulate personal career goals in the future of work.
- Conduct market research to establish personal career opportunities in the organization and develop a career plan to meet personal career goals
- Review requirements of selected career path to develop a personal career portfolio.
- Synthesis personal competencies to develop a brand image that optimize use of new media that is in line with the organization.
- Develop and maintain professional corporate image to project personal brand off and online.
- Develop networking skills in the hybrid environment using new media tools and appropriate interpersonal approaches in managing company’s stakeholder.
- Use effective presentation skills in the hybrid mode to promote organization brand in managing company’s assignments.
- Use effective presentation skills to promote personal competencies in managing personal progression and securing job.
- Maintain professional competence to ensure the continuing relevance of personal brand and competencies to relevant stakeholders
- Review achievement of personal career goals and develop corrective strategies to address unrealised career goals in the hybrid work environment.
Pre-requisites
Prior to attending this course, trainees should be able to:
- Read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to ES WS level 4
- Communicate information effectively and work in a team
- Plan and organise resources and activities to complete work activities within timeframes
- Come with basic technology knowledge (eg. Know how to serve the web and has email address)
- Have basic knowledge in using Office(Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Course Outline
LU1: Assess personal competencies to formulate career goals and career plan through market research
- Factors to be considered in formulating personal career goals
- Assess personal competencies to formulate personal career goals
LU2: Establish personal career opportunities and develop a career plan through market research
- Conduct market research to establish personal career opportunities
LU3: Review requirements of selected career path to develop a personal career portfolio
- Establish and Review requirements of selected career path to develop a personal career portfolio
LU4: Develop and maintain your professional image
- Develop and maintain professional image to project personal brand
LU5: Promote personal competencies and brand through use of effective presentation skills
- Use effective presentation skills to promote personal competencies and brand to secure job or assignments
LU6: Synthesise personal competencies to develop personal brand and optimise use of new media to promote personal brand
- Synthesise personal competencies to develop personal brand and optimise use of new media to promote personal brand
LU7: Develop networking skills using new media tools and appropriate interpersonal approaches
- Understand types of social skills for networking sessions
- Know types of networking situations that can help one in securing job and assignment opportunities
LU8: Maintain professional competence through review of achievements and develop corrective strategies to ensure relevancy of personal brand and competencies to stakeholders
Certification Obtained and Conferred by
SSGs Statement of Attainment (SOA) will be awarded to learners who have achieved 75% attendance and are Competent (PASS) in their assessment.