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You, Your Story, and Your Creative Career
9 Lessons-
StartWhat is a Creative Career?
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StartMapping Your Past Pathways and Journeys
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StartMapping Reflection
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StartOptional: Do Exercise with Family Member
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StartWhat do you know about yourself?
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StartYour Target “Work Environment”
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StartExploration Reflection
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StartCore Values, Traits, and Transferable Skills
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StartHow Do You Make Choices?
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Connecting with Jobs, Roles, and Organizations
8 Lessons
Career Adventure Guide 2022
Explore, (Re)Build, and Expand Your Non-Linear Career Adventures
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Course Summary
We all tend to live a non-linear life. Yet most of the models of career design are about matching skills to jobs and a flow from one job to the next successful role. What if there are different ways to plan and energize your own career journeys? This program gives you ten steps in building out your plans.
What will we be doing? Over these modules, you will be building maps and ideas to plan your creative career. You will be using tools ranging from art to research to design to create a Design for your Career.
Here's what we'll be doing together:
- Explore how you make choices to get what you are, celebrate them, and examine what has influenced you to date
- Dive into your Transferable Skills and target Work Environments, so you are building towards both your strengths and ways of best working in your creative directions
- Expand your best stories into a Super Resume that you can pull from to match the right jobs – and to think about skills and evidence to add to your Super Resume in 3 years that you are building toward for a robust future career
- Understand how companies are using your resume in their Applicant Tracking Systems
- Help you to target your future tribes and communities to help you find and expand your career alternatives Build personal models and paths for how you can build creative career choices in the next 3 years
Course Curriculum
Gigi Johnson
As a Renaissance Woman, Dr. Gigi Johnson navigates how tech disrupts and opens doorways for leaders to re-narrate together how we create, live, and work. She is a futurist and program builder at the Maremel Institute and Rethink Next, where she develops educational and leadership programs on possible futures, especially of creative work. Most recently, she co-produced the Amplify Music Initiative, bringing together more than 45 organizations around the world to collaborate and observe emergent change and leadership in local music during and recovering from the Pandemic. She has hosted 2 podcasts: Amplify Music and Creative Innovators (now in Season 2). Her diverse experiences include producing early YouTube series, financing media and early cellular at Bank of America for a decade, creating cutting-edge digital disruption courses for both executives and students at UCLA Anderson, and singing jazz and folk across LA.
For more than 20 years, she created innovation programs at UCLA and taught classes for creative professionals to thrive in the face of digital disruption. For 10 years, she ran a variety of programs and classes at UCLA Anderson on how digital was disrupting a wide variety of industries. At the Center for Music Innovation at UCLA Alpert, she researched and taught how tech-driven innovations are transforming music experiences, systems, and communities. She led a 2019 conference on LA as a tangled but growing Music City. As host of the podcast "Innovating Music" for four years, she showcased diverse innovators changing music.
She received her EdD from Fielding Graduate University, her MBA from UCLA Anderson, and her BA in Cinematic Arts from USC.