Design a Meaningful Career

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In this course, we will look at how you can creatively shape your career as you go in the radically changing world of work. We will focus on meaningful work as a core element of career sustainability and explore ways to design a value-driven path. After this course, you will understand how the changing context influences your career agency, how to use narrative to clarify your career identity, how to pursue meaningfulness and how to use radical creativity and design thinking to navigate in the uncertain future of work.

Price

Free of charge

Workload

1 ECTS

Type

Self-paced online

Languages

English

Course Content

Introduction

Welcome to design a meaningful career

Chapter 1: The career is dead, long live the career

The career is dead, long live the career
Section 1: The many meanings of career
Section 2: From tracks to gigs?
Section 3: Sustainable careers
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 2: What's your narrative?

What's your narrative?
Section 1: From scores and stages to stories
Section 2: Narratives we live by
Section 3: The moral of the story
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 3: Pursuing meaningful work

Pursuing meaningful work
Section 1: The what and why of meaningful work
Section 2: Don’t discover your calling – Expelling the myths about meaningful work
Section 3: What makes work meaningful – Four pathways
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 4: Radical career creativity - using intuition and design

Radical career creativity – using intuition and design
Section 1: The power of creativity and design thinking
Section 2: Unleashing your intuition
Section 3: The creative design process
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 5: Conclusions

Conclusions

Instructors

Kirsi LaPointe
Kirsi LaPointe, D.Sc., is a senior advisor at Aalto University’s Career Design Lab. Her expertise focuses on career identity, transitions, and meaningful work, and she is particularly interested in creative and narrative approaches to understanding and facilitating fulfilling and sustainable careers. Prior to her current position, she has worked as a lecturer, researcher, facilitator, and consultant in Finland and the U.S. Kirsi is an alumna of Aalto University’s School of Business where she defended her dissertation on narrative identity work in career transitions in 2011.
Frank Martela
Frank Martela, PhD, is a university lecturer at Aalto University, a philosopher, and a researcher of psychology, specialised in the question of meaning in life.His quest is to understand what to do, value, and aim for in this unfolding experience called human life. He investigates the fundamentals of happiness, meaningfulness, human basic needs, and good life to deliver insights that can help each of us to live a slightly better and more self-chosen life. His book A Wonderful Life – Insights on Finding a Meaningful Experience (HarperCollins 2020) has been translated into 25 different languages. Frank is an alumnus of Aalto University’s School of Science where he defended his dissertation on compassion and caregiving in 2012.
Asta Raami
Asta Raami, D.A., is an intuition researcher, educator, author, and founder of Innerversity. Asta has worked 15 years in the academic field and written several books on the use of intuition as a factor in expertise and the general skills of work life as well as on harnessing the potential of intuition in visionary and radical innovations. Asta is an alumna of Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design, and Architecture where she defended her dissertation on the development of intuition in creative processes in 2015.

What will You Learn

You will learn:

To understand the nature of radically changing career dynamics and the core skills for creating a sustainable career in the future of work
To recognize the role of narrative in increasing self-awareness, creating meaning, and adapting to changes
To understand the nature, benefits, and challenges of meaningful work and how to pursue meaningfulness in your career
To understand the importance of creativity in career design and how to use intuition and design thinking to support career decision-making and adaptability

Design a Meaningful Career

Price

Free of charge

Workload

1 ECTS

Type

Self-paced online

Languages

English

Course Content

Introduction

Welcome to design a meaningful career

Chapter 1: The career is dead, long live the career

The career is dead, long live the career
Section 1: The many meanings of career
Section 2: From tracks to gigs?
Section 3: Sustainable careers
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 2: What's your narrative?

What's your narrative?
Section 1: From scores and stages to stories
Section 2: Narratives we live by
Section 3: The moral of the story
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 3: Pursuing meaningful work

Pursuing meaningful work
Section 1: The what and why of meaningful work
Section 2: Don’t discover your calling – Expelling the myths about meaningful work
Section 3: What makes work meaningful – Four pathways
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 4: Radical career creativity - using intuition and design

Radical career creativity – using intuition and design
Section 1: The power of creativity and design thinking
Section 2: Unleashing your intuition
Section 3: The creative design process
Section 4: Key takeaways

Chapter 5: Conclusions

Conclusions

Instructors

Kirsi LaPointe
Kirsi LaPointe, D.Sc., is a senior advisor at Aalto University’s Career Design Lab. Her expertise focuses on career identity, transitions, and meaningful work, and she is particularly interested in creative and narrative approaches to understanding and facilitating fulfilling and sustainable careers. Prior to her current position, she has worked as a lecturer, researcher, facilitator, and consultant in Finland and the U.S. Kirsi is an alumna of Aalto University’s School of Business where she defended her dissertation on narrative identity work in career transitions in 2011.
Frank Martela
Frank Martela, PhD, is a university lecturer at Aalto University, a philosopher, and a researcher of psychology, specialised in the question of meaning in life.His quest is to understand what to do, value, and aim for in this unfolding experience called human life. He investigates the fundamentals of happiness, meaningfulness, human basic needs, and good life to deliver insights that can help each of us to live a slightly better and more self-chosen life. His book A Wonderful Life – Insights on Finding a Meaningful Experience (HarperCollins 2020) has been translated into 25 different languages. Frank is an alumnus of Aalto University’s School of Science where he defended his dissertation on compassion and caregiving in 2012.
Asta Raami
Asta Raami, D.A., is an intuition researcher, educator, author, and founder of Innerversity. Asta has worked 15 years in the academic field and written several books on the use of intuition as a factor in expertise and the general skills of work life as well as on harnessing the potential of intuition in visionary and radical innovations. Asta is an alumna of Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design, and Architecture where she defended her dissertation on the development of intuition in creative processes in 2015.

What will You Learn

You will learn:

To understand the nature of radically changing career dynamics and the core skills for creating a sustainable career in the future of work
To recognize the role of narrative in increasing self-awareness, creating meaning, and adapting to changes
To understand the nature, benefits, and challenges of meaningful work and how to pursue meaningfulness in your career
To understand the importance of creativity in career design and how to use intuition and design thinking to support career decision-making and adaptability

Design a Meaningful Career

Design a Meaningful Career

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