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What is professional development?
Professional development is a process that happens throughout your career and involves any kind of formal or informal learning that will help you perform your job, or the job you want, better. That can mean a variety of things, including:
- Learning a foreign language
- Completing training on how to integrate social media into your company
- Leadership development seminars
- Public speaking classes
- Training programs about networking opportunities
- Learning opportunities within your organisation that will help you with your desired career path
- Online learning to create and inspire a development plan for your company
- Completing a qualification or degree program that formalises your learned skills
- Continuing professional development (CPD) programs provided by your organisation
Why you should complete a professional development program:
Completing a learning program to help you with professional development is important for a number of reasons.
Firstly, it teaches you the skills that you need to know to reach your career goals. If you want to work in human resources and are trying to get there through an admin role, it’s crucial you know the skills to be able to do your desired job, and if you didn’t learn those skills in high school, you need to learn them somehow!
Secondly, it means you can show potential employers that you’re serious about your career. Nobody learns new research methods or completes their graduate certificate if they don’t intend to use those skills in the future!
Finally, professional development opportunities give you the chance to formalise skills you may already know. In a face-to-face situation, you can tell someone about how you were a school leader or worked for years in an industry that’s given you valuable skills, but that’s hard to put down on paper. When you complete coursework or a formal webinar that results in a certification or qualification, you can prove that you know the skills you know!
To get started on a brighter future, enquire about a professional development course listed above!