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Individual Career Development

Individual Career Development
115-0377/01
čeština Individual Career Development
115-0377/02
angličtina Individual Career Development
115-0377/03
čeština Individual Career Development
115-0377/05
čeština

Summary

The aim of the course is to focus on explanation the importance of a career in one's overall well-being. The course facilitates and enhances the development of skills needed for individual career planning and management. Main factors influencing individual career are explained, career context is analyzed. The course prepares students for a job search (CV, motivation letters and so forth). During the course students are acquainted with labor market requirements, with organizations’ requirements for graduates, and with the issue of type positions. Following topics are also analyzed: self-assessment issue, individual SWOT analysis, individual portfolio, career problems, and career assessment. An issue of career structure is included too. Attention is given to career choices.

Literature

GREENHAUS, Jeffrey H., Gerard A. CALLANAN a Veronica M. GODSCHALK. Career Management. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4129-7826-2.
MIEDANER, Talane. Coach Yourself to a New Career. London: McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN 978-0-07-170309-3.
PEDLER, Mike, John BURGYONE a Tom BOYDELL. Manager´s Guide to Self-development. 5th ed. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill, 2007. ISBN 978-0077114701.

Advised literature

ARMSTRONG, Michael. Armstrong´s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. 11th ed. London: Kogan Page, 2009. ISBN 978 0 7494 52421.
GUNZ, Hugh and Maury PEIPERL. Handbook of Career Studies.Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7619-3039-6.
HARRINGTON, Brad and Douglas T. HALL. Career Management & Work-Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers.London: Sage Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4129-3745-0.


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Language of instruction čeština, angličtina, čeština, čeština
Code 115-0377
Abbreviation IRK
Course title Individual Career Development
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. Iva Kirovová, Ph.D.