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About the Course

Do you want to gain a competitive edge on the job market? Would you like to improve the way that you organize, manage, and present your skills to succeed in a competency-based, competitive job selection? Have you prepared to compete for jobs in the age of AI-powered recruiting? This advanced, project-centered course* is designed for working professionals who want to direct their skill-building activities towards creating powerful, evidence-based, data-driven, and externally verified job applications. When you complete the course, you’ll be able to objectively measure your level of skills acquisition against your desired job’s requirements and the likely competition. You’ll learn how to use experiential methods and tools, such as simulations, benchmarking, competency dashboards, and skills assessment to operationalize and quantify your skills. You will know how to realistically estimate your likely score in the competitive job selection; you will also find out how much of each skill you need to develop to stand out and beat the competition. In addition to improving your job applications, the course will teach you how to increase the effectiveness of your ongoing professional development by monitoring the level of skills acquisition. The course will provide you with tangible outcomes for immediate use. We’ll show you how to use a simple, powerful computer program to organize and manage your skills inventory. Your completed project will focus on your desired job and will include three components: 1) a Skillset Summary Checklist; 2) a Selection Criteria Statement; and 3) a Professional Development Plan. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to use the results of the project to strengthen your next job application (or promotion request). You’ll be able to use the same technique to direct your skill-building activities and continuously monitor their effectiveness. What is required: In the course, we’ll provide videos, readings, and learning activities. There is an optional course companion book available for purchase on Amazon.com. In the course, you'll be asked to download and use the course software, “J.A.F.A.R, Skills Manager Pro (R).” The software is a copyrighted Excel spreadsheet template; for course participants, it is provided free of charge (for personal, non-commercial use only). To use the software, you will need to have a basic level of proficiency and a licensed copy of MS Excel. *About Project-Centered Courses: Project-centered courses are designed to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of like-minded supportive learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more efficiently; you’ll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you’ll have a finished project that you’ll be proud to use and share....

Top reviews

GP

Dec 2, 2020

The techniques taught in this course for skills management are very useful for personal and career development in this day and age. Thank you SUNY and Coursera. I have learned a lot from this course.

ST

May 28, 2021

This is an eye opening course to objectively evaluate my skills and see if I'm ready for a promotion/new job. It's also helped me to create a career plan in improving my skills.

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By Vishwanath G

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Nov 18, 2020

A Must Course for Every Professional !!

By Marifhel R

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May 10, 2020

Amazing course. I have learned a lot

By Leslie M

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Apr 11, 2024

Technical, effective, game changer.

By Ruturaj S S

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Oct 16, 2020

I get more skills from this course.

By Hassan T

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Jul 10, 2024

Great Course. Highly recommended.

By anas1f

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Apr 5, 2023

very well presented and explained

By fatra h

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Apr 17, 2020

For introduction course it's good

By JONNALA S R

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May 13, 2020

Very well designed course..

By Ким Е В

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Apr 10, 2020

Super! Very intresting

By Winston A W

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Nov 11, 2020

Excellent, thank you.

By Plainly s

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Aug 27, 2020

I loved this course .

By Eng S

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Oct 13, 2023

Great syllabus

By Roaa M k

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Jun 23, 2020

perfect course

By MD A R A

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Jul 29, 2020

Excellent !!!

By Jignesh J

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Apr 11, 2021

Very Useful

By Agnes F

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Aug 30, 2020

thank you!

By Rishab J

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Jul 11, 2020

Brilliant!

By MD T

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Jun 10, 2020

thank you

By penchala r d

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Aug 25, 2020

Good one

By Natnicha j

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Jun 22, 2021

great

By Vibesh B

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May 26, 2020

good

By Ashok B

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Mar 28, 2023

Very helpful for improving our current talents and bringing new skills and competencies to pursue a job.

By Luis A A S

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Oct 10, 2022

well described course with content that will help me significatly to excel in my career

By Huy Q N

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Sep 10, 2020

Good on teaching and learning but question in the quiz need to be more