Design Your CareerLaajuus (5 cr)

Learning objectives

The course helps the students:
1. Know themselves better and recognize their own strengths
2. Plan your own career path
3. Set realistic and concrete career goals for a long and short period of time
4. Draw up an action plan to achieve its objectives
5. Develop their own personal branding capabilities
6. Networking to promote career plan
7. Prepare for working life in Finland
8. Find jobs that match their education and progress on their own career path
9. Develop time management and stress management
10. Get to know Haaga-Helia career and recruitment services

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Know yourself and your skills
3. Your objectives and career vision
4. Your goals and action plan
5. Effective Job-searching
6. Branding yourself
7. Work in Finland
8. How to start a career?
9. Fluid flow of your time management
10. Summary

Starting level and linkage with other courses

No entry-level requirements.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

(a) Network material and related tasks.

(b) Identification and recognition of previously acquired competence (AHOT) (If the student has achieved the required competence, for example in previous work tasks, hobbies or in another course, he/she can demonstrate his/her competence and progress more quickly in the studies). For more information and instructions on how to identify and recognize previously acquired skills (AHOT), visit MyNet or the website. For teachers, more detailed instructions on the intra: Tools -> AHOT, and then AHOT guidance.)

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

To pass the course: The student performs all the tasks of the online material.
To fail the course: The student does not perform all the tasks of online material during two semesters.

Learning materials

Online material and voluntary materials and literature.