Find Your Calling: Career Transition Principles for Returning Veterans

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Overview

Title: Find Your Calling: Career Transition Principles for Returning Veterans

Description: This engaging course, a joint effort between FourBlock and Columbia University and supported by T-Mobile, is expertly designed to aid returning veterans in navigating their career transition into the civilian workforce. With a curriculum rooted in research and taught by field experts, it emphasizes the development of key interpersonal, intrapersonal, and intellectual character strengths. The course is structured to facilitate an iterative self-reflection process, equipped with practical skill-building to enable participants to make career choices that resonate with their core values, ambitions, and desire for continued service.

Participants will explore how the invaluable skills acquired during military service can be leveraged for success in a civilian context, offering guidance to redefine service in a new career pathway. The distinctive corporate culture of America, varying significantly from military life, requires adept navigation for successful integration and advancement. This program addresses such challenges head-on, providing insights into character strengths that foster community service, transition resilience, and alignment with meaningful opportunities.

Moreover, the course outlines actionable strategies to smooth the transition, supporting better decision-making for veterans and their families, with the ultimate goal of achieving career aspirations and unrealizing potential. While the course content is specifically tailored for veterans, active duty military personnel preparing for civilian employment, and professionals aiming to support veterans through their transition, it is open to all interested parties.

Columbia University and its partners welcome the opportunity to collaborate with colleges, career transition programs, non-profits, and other organizations interested in enhancing their existing support frameworks with this comprehensive online curriculum. To begin this transformative journey, reach out to either FourBlock or the Columbia University Center for Veteran Transition and Integration.

University: Columbia University

Provider: edX

Categories: Emotional Intelligence Courses, Critical Thinking Courses, Career Development Courses, Resume Writing Courses