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Individual Career Development

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

ARNOLD, John et al. Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace. 7th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2020. 626 s. ISBN 978-1-292-26943-6 .
GREENHAUS, Jeffrey H., Gerard A. CALLANAN a Veronica M. GODSCHALK. Career Management for Life. 5th ed. New York: Routledge, 2019. 461 s. ISBN: 978-1-138-63646-0 .
MULLINS, Laurie J. Organizational Behaviour in the Workplace. 12 th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2019. 714 s. ISBN 978-1-299-24548-5 .

Advised literature

GGRIFFIN, Ricky W., PHILLIPS, J. M. a S. M. GULLY. Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations. 12th ed. Boston: Cengage, 2021. 608 s. ISBN 978-1305501393.
KASSIN, Saul et al. Social Psychology. 10th ed. New York: Cengage, 2017. 650 s. ISBN 978-1305580220 
PINA e CUNHA, Miguel et al. Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach. New York: Routledge, 2020. 553 s. ISBN 978-1-138-29309-0.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština, angličtina, angličtina, angličtina, angličtina, angličtina, angličtina
Code 115-0577
Abbreviation ICD
Course title Individual Career Development
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. Iva Kirovová, Ph.D.