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Job Opportunities in Wellness

Offered By: Welltodo via FutureLearn

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Career Development Courses Nutrition & Wellness Courses Career Transition Courses

Course Description

Overview

Evaluate your existing skills to identify your path into wellness

By first understanding and defining your career aspirations and evaluating your skills, you’ll be able to identify whether you’re looking to change your career completely or just find a new job in the wellness industry.

On this course, you’ll learn about the different jobs that make up the wellness industry. You’ll then audit your own career to enable you to better plan your path into a fulfilling and meaningful career in wellness.

Discover the networking basics and develop the toolkit for your transition into wellness

Networking is crucial to many industries, wellness being one of them. This course will show you the best tips and techniques to build your career network and how to research and connect with the right people to further your career in wellness.

You’ll also assemble your transition toolkit so you can stand out, match your skills to the right jobs, and make sure you get the career opportunities that you want.

Cultivate a success mindset to make the most of your career opportunities

To support you in building confidence and resilience, you’ll learn how to overcome limiting beliefs, develop a positive money mentality, and become a great negotiator. Together, these skills will form your success mindset to help you manage the ups and downs of your career journey.

Align your personal values with your future career

When planning your career in wellness, it’s important to understand your personal values so you can find a position in the industry that reflects them, and that you’re passionate about.

This course will take you through the process of defining your personal values and then matching them with your ideal job criteria, allowing you to narrow the field of potential opportunities and helping in finalising your strategy to transition into the wellness industry.

This course is designed for anyone looking to turn an interest in wellness into a thriving career. You don’t need any experience in the industry as this course covers the basics of getting started.


Syllabus

  • The Job Marketplace
    • An introduction: jobs in wellness
    • Your values
    • Evaluating your skill set
    • Job change vs career change
    • Auditing your career
    • Types of jobs in the wellness industry
    • Building a career network
  • Landing Your Dream Job
    • An introduction
    • Career transition toolkit
    • Applying for the job
    • Critical tools for landing the role
    • Overcoming internal barriers
    • Playing the long game

Taught by

Lauren Armes

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