Training Aim
Equips individuals and employers with comprehensive career development tools and life-long learning resources. The four-step programme allows learners to gain valuable insights into their own abilities, strengths, and areas for improvement, empowering them to reach their maximum potential within their respective organisations.
Our one-to-one mentored support, which includes recognition of prior learning, plays a pivotal role in guiding and assisting individuals in pursuing their professional career objectives and exploring additional study opportunities effectively.
The e-learning resources supports the one-to-one mentoring sessions in building confidence and directing individuals to learning material for information and growth opportunities.
Learning Objectives | PATHWAY LEARNING OUTCOMES
Step 1: Self-discovery:
By undergoing career assessments, including a focus on employability and transversal skills, you will gain insight into your unique skill set and learn how to further develop your potential, expanding your knowledge and experience.
Map your values, strengths and achievements with access to online resources.
Step 2: Self-development:
Explore your career direction and key skills, decision-making and motivation to enhance your leadership development.
Identify learning gaps and suitable courses which would support advancement in a career pathway of interest to you.
Step 3: Career Toolkit:
Develop the resources you require to support career enhancement. Refine course choices to suit your career goals. Consider advice on course applications including available supports and funding.
Step 4: Career Plan:
Finalise a career and learning development plan using S.M.A.R.T goals to support your career journey.
Course Outline
The duration of the 4-stage programme is approximately 12-14 hours over 6 weeks, which includes self-directed learning.
Reflect
Understanding yourself better. This is done through
various career assessments (including an employability pulse) that provides a
deeper insight into personality, motivations and strengths.
Research Stage
Access to e-learning resources, supporting learning needs
through bite size pieces of information, building confidence in areas to
develop.
Preparation Stage
Using AI tools on the platform and availing of resources and
supports, such as RPL. Exploration of internal career opportunities within an
individual’s organisations.
Action Stage
Better understanding of yourself, your abilities and capabilities – a career development plan on what steps to take next to reach career goals.
Finally, on successful completion of the programme, a number of reports can be downloaded to support the outcome of the personalised pathway, in addition to a completed Career Development Plan with S.M.A.R.T goals.
Detailed career overview of trainers
Maura Fallon / Career & Learning Pathway Advisor
Maura is a qualified Career Guidance Counsellor and is one of the Career and Learning Pathways Advisors with mycareerpath.
Maura has over 20 years’ experience as a career practitioner prior to joining mycareerpath.ie. She has worked with a range of clients including early school leavers, students, graduates, adult learners, and professionals. Passionate about empowering individuals to utilise their talents, experience, and abilities to optimise their engagement with education and employment and enable them to reach their optimum potential.
- Bachelor of Religious Education and English (Dublin City University)
- MEd in School Guidance and Counselling (Maynooth University)
Lorraine Ginty / Career & Learning Pathway Advisor
Lorraine is an experienced career advisor who holds a Master of Arts in Guidance Counselling and Lifespan Development from the University of Limerick. She has an interest in adult education, non-formal education, and Non-profit Organisations. Lorraine possesses key skills and experience in areas such as: Career Counselling, C.V and Cover Letter Writing, Career Development, Job Search Strategies, Higher Education, Community Work, Course searching and Career matching.
Lorraine has a strong interest in the various industry requirements within different sectors and knowledge of suitable programmes of study to promote upskilling and training for all. Lorraine enjoys bringing individuals through personalised career paths and facilitating growth and development.
- Master of Arts in Guidance Counselling and Lifespan Development from the University of Limerick
Mark Willis / Career & Learning Pathway Advisor
Mark is an experienced Human Resources and Disability Employment professional with over 20 years’ experience working with and leading teams in HR, training, and recruitment. He has extensive experience across a variety of industries – from Financial Services to Community Development and Social Enterprises where his clients range from early school leavers through to experienced senior professionals who are interested in exploring and developing their career options.
- Professional Diploma in Leadership & Management: UCD Professional Academy
- Post Graduate Certificate in Workplace Wellbeing: Trinity College Dublin
- Certificate in Supported Employment: Marino Institute
- Masters in Business Studies: UCD Graduate Business School
- BA Hons in Arts: University College Dublin
Olive Kelly / RPL Co-ordinator
Olive Kelly has 20 years’ experience in education and training, including roles at City of Dublin ETB, University of Galway, and Galway Roscommon ETB. Studying as a mature student herself, Olive understands the importance of lifelong learning and balancing responsibilities like being a mother and working full time. Olive is passionate about RPL, which enhances employee mobility and employability by recognising existing competencies. RPL students bring diversity to lecture theatres by sharing their real-life experiences, adding value to programmes of study. With industrypartnerships, RPL ensures higher education remains relevant to evolving skills and capabilities in the labour market, creating a highly skilled workforce to address societal needs.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Change Management: University of Galway
- MA in Human Resource Management: IPA/National University of Ireland
- Bachelor of Business Management Applications: ATU Sligo
- Certificate in Integrating Literacy: NUI Maynooth
Christine McCabe / RPL Co-ordinator
Christine has nearly twenty years’ experience in further and higher education in various lead and support roles, particularly in facilitating access and progression to education for marginalised and adult learners. She is currently the RPL Coordinator for ATU Donegal and acts as Project Lead on the National RPL in Higher Education project as well as providing RPL support to the Higher Ed 4.0 project.
She is committed to RPL in both a professional and personal capacity having recently graduated as a mature student (HDip in Science in Computing) and now enrolled on a MSc in Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Christine has a deep interest in the future analysis of RPL data to better serve and improve how RPL is embedded across the sector.
- HDip in Science in Computing)
- Undertaking a MSc in Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Myra Feely / RPL Co-ordinator
Myra is a passionate higher education professional who is dedicated to supporting lifelong learners to meet their professional, educational and personal goals through the offerings of RPL. She believes in the opportunities RPL offers mature students and the wider community, having experienced the RPL process herself as a student.
- Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning (Hibernia College)
- Bachelor of Education (Dublin City University)
Website
https://mycareerpath.ie/