Explore technology, sustainability, professional services, entrepreneurship, and law with industry leaders
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5 weeksWeekly study
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Career Pathways
Discover your future career across five key sectors
Understanding real career journeys helps you make informed decisions about your own future and connect your interests to meaningful work.
This course brings together career insights from industry leaders at Meta, AWS, Schneider Electric, PwC, EY, and innovative startups across five key sectors: technology, green careers, professional services, entrepreneurship, and law.
You’ll learn how professionals navigated challenges, built networks, and created meaningful careers, connecting your strengths and ambitions to informed career choices.
Explore technology and green careers
Discover career opportunities in technology, including re-skilling and digital leadership with insights from Meta, Uber, and AWS. You’ll explore green careers and sustainable industries with leaders from Schneider Electric and Sun King.
These sectors offer growing opportunities for professionals who want to make an impact through innovation and sustainability.
Learn about professional services and entrepreneurship
Examine careers in professional services, learning about the beginner’s mindset and relationship building from PwC and EY professionals. You’ll explore entrepreneurship, discovering how to balance profit, purpose, and innovation through insights from Quantum5 and Roots Africa.
These pathways offer opportunities to build expertise and create value across different organisational contexts.
Discover law and build your career strategy
Learn how to build trust and foster inclusion in legal careers through insights from Irwin Mitchell and Reed Smith. You’ll reflect on your own strengths, interests, and ambitions to make informed career decisions.
You’ll walk away with the ability to connect your learning to concrete career goals across future-focused sectors.
Syllabus
Week 1
Tech pathway
Welcome to the course
Understand what you’ll learn and how to get the most from it.
Tech
Let's take the plunge and reveal what do you need to be armed with and ready to conquer your Tech journey!
Top skills
The half-life of technical skills is shrinking faster than ever before, but those human skills and soft skills are always crucial.
Curiosity
Learn how curiosity drives learning and growth in tech.
Vulnerability & Authenticity
Understand how openness supports learning, confidence, and collaboration.
Inspiring words from the experts
Gain insights and advice from industry professionals.
Week 1 wrap up
Gain insights and advice from industry professionals.
Week 2
Green career pathway
Introduction to week 2
Explore how teams approach challenges and solve problems.
Green careers
Green Careers Pathway focuses on building the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to contribute to a more sustainable future.
Different paths to Green Careers
Different paths to Green Careers explores the many routes into sustainability-focused work, showing how diverse skills, backgrounds, and industries can all contribute to building a more sustainable future.
Skills
Understand the key skills needed to succeed in green careers.
Agile Mindset
Agile Mindset focuses on staying adaptable, open to change, and willing to learn continuously when facing new challenges and opportunities.
Inspiring words from the experts
We hope you're feeling empowered and ready to blaze your own trail through the world of Green Careers! Last two pieces of inspiring advice from the experts.
Week 2 wrap up
Reflect on your problem-solving approach and development.
Week 3
Professional services pathway
Introduction to week 3
Understand how communication supports effective teamwork.
Professional services
Professional Services Pathway focuses on how you can use your skills and expertise to support clients starting with developing the right mindset, self-awareness, and tools needed to deliver effective and meaningful solutions.
Mindset
Why is having the right mindset so important? It’s all about how you approach life, work and people.
The tools
Now, how do you adopt the right mindset? Critical tools for your mindset journey.
Week 3 wrap up
Reflect on your communication skills and next steps.
Week 4
Entrepreneurship pathway
Introduction to week 4
Explore how to build entrepreneurial mindset.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is about turning ideas into action, creating solutions, building ventures, and generating impact while navigating risk, uncertainty, and continuous learning.
Part 1: Context
Learn what is social entrepreneurship all about? explore the essentials, the heart of the matter and endless possibilities.
Context - The essentials
Learn essentials knowledge about social entrepreneurship.
Context - The heart of the matter
Understand why do social entrepreneurs do what they do?
Part 2: Mindset
Mindset shapes how you approach challenges, learning, and growth. It influences whether you see obstacles as barriers or opportunities, and how you respond to feedback, setbacks, and new experiences.
Mindset - Key ingredients
Learn what mindset do you need to drive social impact? What do other experts think are key ingredients?
Mindset - Practising resilience
How to bolster and develop your resilience. Resilience is one of the overarching qualities that kept coming up in conversation with our experts.
Part 3: Vision - Knowing your 'why'
A vision is a dream but one that has been considered, with a plan emerging to take it forward. It is the starting point of any project, be it a student club or a fully fledged enterprise.
Vision - Action
You have an idea and your 'why', so what's your next challenge?
Part 4: Leadership
Learn what does it take to lead an initiative?
Week 4 wrap up
Reflect on your learning in entrepreneurship and next steps.
Week 5
Law pathway
Introduction to week 5
There are a wide range of legal careers to choose from. You will explore what makes you different gives you an edge in your work.
Law
This week shares insights from top solicitors around the UK, as well as from student voices just starting out on their law journey.
Law is varied
law is varied. The better you know yourself, the easier it is to know what you want and where to make an impact.
Know your difference
Hear from lawyers who have lived the power of bringing their difference and diversity into their work.
Building trust with clients
Learn how lawyers should focus on crafting genuine human connection with clients.
Self-Belief and Perseverance
Some parting advice touching on self-belief, imposter syndrome and persevering through rejection
Week 5 wrap up
Reflect on law pathway and next steps.
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore future-focused industries such as Technology, Green Careers, Professional Services, Entrepreneurship, and Law.
- Assess different industry pathways, opportunities, and challenges shared by professionals.
- Apply insights from industry experiences to identify key skills, mindsets, and behaviours valued by employers.
- Evaluate how different career paths align with personal strengths, interests, and ambitions.
- Create an informed perspective on potential career directions based on personal goals and industry insights.
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for 18–25-year-olds exploring career options across technology, sustainability, professional services, entrepreneurship, and law, especially as a final step after building skills and work experience.
Who will you learn with?
Andy has over 17 years experience in the career-readiness, leadership and professional development space across the world. He currently runs EvolveCareers, a Future of Work EdTech company.
Who developed the course?
EvolveCareers
EvolveCareers is a Future of Work EdTech company committed to helping with the transition from education to early career and beyond industry-led online learning, partnering with 100+ schools and universities and 1,000 employers worldwide.
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