Kickstart Your Career Certification

This Kickstart Your Career course gives you everything you need to know about returning to the workforce after taking time out to care for your children, or entering the workforce for the first time. At the conclusion of this course, participants have the tools they require to confidently pursue a career in the field of their choosing.

The course covers many topics related to successful integration into any working environment from the communication skills you need, to ways to comply with existing privacy legislation. We have developed this course to give students important information about how to successfully enter or re-enter the workforce.

Throughout the course, students are provided with instruction, tips and techniques for learning how to manage their time, how to work in teams and how to communicate effectively with their managers and colleagues. The course also covers negotiation skills that are crucial for working with others and earning a fair salary for yourself. Students of this course further learn about how to improve their personal effectiveness, manage customer relations and how to deal with stress on the job. At the conclusion of the course, students receive a diploma, proving they have successfully completed each module.

What You Will Learn

This course was designed to give takers a total overview of what is involved in entering the workforce, regardless of experience or industry.

Here’s what the course covers:

• How to establish and manage priorities on the job
• What their rights are in workplace relationships and how to enforce those rights
• The specific skills involved in strengthening personal effectiveness
• The signs of stress and how to avoid burnout
• How to develop a relationship with your customers by focusing on Customer Relationship Management
• The interpersonal skills needed to handle difficult people and situations
• Tips on how to work well in, and eventually lead, workplace teams
• The main phases of negotiation and how to put those phases into practice successfully
• Important information about data protection, including how to apply legislative frameworks to your job
• How to create a CV that attracts attention, along with crucial interviewing skills

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