Course Structure

Click on the hotspots (purple plus signs) for links to the sections in the career journey map. 

This guide follows a design thinking process to map your career journey. Design Thinking will be explored more in Module 1. Each section will contain the following content.

Module 1: Design Your Life

• Be Curious: Design Thinking – Overview of what design thinking is
• Reframe Problems: Five Steps to Designing Your Life – Overview of using design thinking with life planning
• Try Stuff: Balanced Dashboard – Check Where you are currently are
• Know it’s a Process!: Design Thinking Toolkit – additional tools and methods to come up with solutions to challenges
• Story Telling and Radical Collaboration – Reflect on Learning, Share your experiences and get feedback and coaching
• Going Deeper – Additional resources if you want to explore more areas

  Module 2: Empathize

• Be Curious: Empathy – Overview of what Empathy is
• Reframe Problems: Understand Yourself – explore five areas about yourself
• Try Stuff – Try out some activities to reflect on yourself
  • Balanced Dashboard – Check Where you are currently in 4 areas
  • Life, Work, & College Views– Reflect on what each means to you
  • Wellness Cards – Take some time to sort different wellness areas and prioritize what is important to you at the moment
• Story Telling and Radical Collaboration – Reflect on Learning, Share your experiences and get feedback and coaching
• Going Deeper – Additional resources if you want to explore more areas

Module 3: Define Your Challenge

• Know it’s a Process: Define Your Challenge
• Be Curious: Learning Preferences
• Try Stuff: Discover Your Learning Style & Exam Prep Methods
• Reframe Problems: What Challenges Do You Want to Solve?
• Try Stuff: Challenge Cards
• Be Curious: Life Sketch
• Radical Collaboration: Define

Module 4: Ideas

• Know it’s a Process: Ideas – Overview of creating ideas and brainstorming
• Be Curious: Labour Market Information (LMI) – Overview of what research needs to be done about jobs
  • Be Curious: LMI Step 1: Self-Assessment
  • Be Curious: LMI Step 2: Labour Market Research
  • Be Curious: LMI Step 3: Skills and Qualifications
  • Be Curious: LMI Sep 4: Job Search
  • Be Curious: LMI Step 5: Employment Maintenance
• Try Stuff: Career Exploration – A starting point of ideas to try and be curious about

Module 5: Prototype & Test

• Introduction: Explore what Prototyping and Testing are
• Try Stuff: Select Career Experiences to Explore different Careers from over 2000 ideas
• Try Stuff: Career Mind Mapping steps to help you on your journey
• Going Deeper: Prototype & Test
• Radical Collaboration: Prototype and Test

Module 6: Implementation

• Know it’s a Process: Implementation
• Try Stuff: Create an Education Plan that will help guide you on your journey.
• Try Stuff: Research College/University Program Information that will equip you to fill out application forms.
• Try Stuff: Understand the different options for Funding your education
• Going Deeper: Implementation
• Radical Collaboration: Implementation