Discover your career path with Career Coach

Learning objectives

• Develop self-awareness.

• Develop emotional intelligence.

• Manage and mitigate risks in your career.

• Identify the skills gained from work and learning experiences.

• Discover top in-demand regional jobs, skills, and employers.

• Explore careers that align with skills and interests.

• Identify skills for interesting careers.

Lesson 1: Develop self-awareness 

Estimated duration: 1 hour, Level: Beginner 

1. Watch the LinkedIn Learning course to learn about developing self-awareness (22m).

2. Open Career Coach. Select Profile > Skills Explorer. Upload your resume or transcript.

3. On the Profile page under My skills, review the list of skills to decide which ones you want to keep, remove, or continue learning.

4. Reflect on how self-awareness is useful in your career journey.

5. Pair with a peer in-person or on Microsoft Teams to share your reflections, compare, and discuss each other's answers.

6. Get advice from career services or a faculty advisor on how to use self-awareness in your life and other tools to practice self-awareness.

Lesson 2: Importance of emotional intelligence

Estimated duration: 1.5 hours, Level: Beginner

1. Watch the LinkedIn Learning course to learn about the importance of emotional intelligence (1h).

2. Reflect  on how developing emotional intelligence can help you be more self-aware. Outline some actions you can take to practice and develop your emotional intelligence in your everyday life.

3. Pair with a peer in-person or on Microsoft Teams to share your reflections, compare, and discuss each other's answers.

Lesson 3: Gain confidence to take risks

Estimated duration: 1.5 hours, Level: Beginner

1. Watch the LinkedIn Learning course to learn about taking risks (32m).

2. Reflect on the best- and worst-case scenarios for your career options. For example, would you need to change your field of study to pursue a career that interests you? How could you mitigate risks and pursue your career interests?

3. Pair with a peer in-person or on Microsoft Teams to share your reflections, compare, and discuss each other’s answers.

Lesson 4: Explore career options

Estimated duration: 1 hour, Level: Beginner

1. Review job market insights and reports from to LinkedIn to learn about in-demand jobs.

2. Open Career Coach. Select Careers to view careers that align with your skills. Save careers that interest you.

3. Select People. Review the field of study and career paths of alumni. Connect with alumni you are interested in learning from. Select Connect to send a personalized message and connect with them. Select Add a note, then add a Greeting and Why you want to connect. Then select Send LinkedIn Invite in the bottom right corner.

4. Select Careers. Use filters to search for careers in companies and industries you discovered during your alumni search. Save skills from careers that interest you.

   Tip: Take note of careers and keywords you’re curious about. You can use these as search terms for job and internship searches.

5. Pair with a peer in-person or on Microsoft Teams and share your saved careers, jobs, and skill interests. Discuss how the skills you learned in the courses could help you work toward pursuing your saved careers and skills. Discuss the risks and help each other brainstorm solutions around roadblocks to careers you’re interested in.

6. Get advice from career services or your faculty advisor. Review your careers, jobs, skills, and skill interests. Ask for career suggestions that align with your interests, what skills you need for those careers, how to incorporate those skills into your studies, and how to get relevant real-world experiences.

7. Go to LinkedIn and update your career interests.