From the course: Managing Your Career: Early Career
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Understand work roles
From the course: Managing Your Career: Early Career
Understand work roles
- Once you have a strong career profile, you're ready to start exploring career options. I recommend that you begin by investigating roles that you'll want to perform. And an important thing you'll want to keep in mind is that a role is different from a job title. A role is the function or task that you'll perform for an organization. For example, the skills a teacher uses in a university will be like the skills a corporate trainer uses at an insurance company. Even though those job titles and industries are very different. Exploring roles can be one of the most difficult steps, since many people define themselves by job positions and titles they've known about or they previously held. My advice is this, don't limit yourself to previous titles. Instead, look at your transferable skills and the qualifications as they fit into many industries. Transferrable skills can come from work experience, volunteer experience, student organization, and hobbies. You'll want to examine your skills…
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