Career Development - Discover your life purpose & ideal job (Udemy.com)
Identify your dream job using career planning, then use goal setting to achieve it!
Created by: Chris Croft
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- Work out what motivates you to go to work in the morning
- Set goals for your life and career
- How to get started with self-employment
- Finding your life purpose
- Identify the perfect job for you
- Know how to impress in an interview
- Understand the perks of redundancy
- What to do if you are rejected for your dream job
- Discover the six success factors in a career
- When to leave your job
Course Description
Career Development - Discover your life purpose & ideal job
Identify your dream job using career planning, then use goal setting to achieve it!
It’s incredibly common to feel like you’re not achieving enough, or that you don’t know what your life purpose is. The root of these problems is most often found in your work life, but it can be surprisingly simple to get back on track and start doing what you love.
Many people underestimate how much your choice of job affects your long-term happiness. This course is for anyone who dreads going to work in the morning and knows they could be doing better, but just doesn’t know how to get there.
This course is specifically designed to help you identify your ideal career. You’ll spend time honing in what your dream career and life purpose is, as well as the benefits and sacrifices required to make more money. We’ll go over the pros and cons of being self-employed and starting your own business, and look at the choice between taking risky jobs, versus those that are safe but don’t excite you.
This course will delve deep into your life goals and how you view success, and whether you feel that success is something worth exchanging for stress. We’ll look at whether having a big salary is a priority to you and how to feel like you’re doing your best work every day. This course will help you find the ultimate career sweet spot, where you get to do something you are good at and enjoy, that gives you a sense of achievement and contribution to the world, while also paying the bills – the Japanese call this Ikigai.
By the time you finish this course, you will feel well prepared and confident at goal setting and ready to start your job search and find your dream career, but more importantly, how to go about getting it.
Whether you’re just starting out in the workforce, looking for a big career change, or just want to move up the ladder in a more fulfilling direction, this course will provide you with practical tools you can use right away in your career development.
Course contents:
Work out what motivates you to go to work in the morning
Set goals for your life and career
Practical tips to get started with self-employment
How to find your life purpose
Discover your perfect job
Learn to achieve both happiness AND success
Know how to impress in an interview
What to do if you are rejected for your dream job
Discover the six success factors in a career
Learn when to leave your job
Find how your personality type affects success and happiness
And lots more!
Instructor Details
- 4.8 Rating
286 Reviews
Chris Croft
Chris Croft is one of the UK's leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 87,000 people in person and millions online. His video courses are some of the most viewed in the world.
Chris has come from an Engineering background, with a masters degree from Cambridge University, qualifying as a Chartered Engineer, and working as a senior manager in manufacturing for 10 years. He gained an MBA and worked as a university lecturer for four years before starting his own training company 25 years ago.
Chris runs face to face courses in the UK, does zoom training for companies anywhere in the world, and makes video courses in his own studio. You can follow him on Linkedin and YouTube, and he has 18 books on Amazon.
Chris is passionate about practical and fun education with courses that are memorable, entertaining and immediately actionable.
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Reviews
By Karin Muscat on 6/10/2025
Great insight and good questions to ask myself at a particularly pivotal point in my career and life. Good to hear from someone who has had these various experiences and can talk to each. Really enjoyed this. Now I need to go and implement! Thank you for giving me the courage to do so.
By Michael Joyce on 11/20/2023
I would say to anyone drawn to this course, you're obviously thinking about career or career change. There's lots of great advice here regardless of where you are in your career timeline. There are exercises too, so not just informational but also practical in terms of getting you thinking. Loved the relating of personal experiences and how one thing can lead to another. Thanks Chris.
By Indrajit B on 7/31/2023
I wish I had access to this course years back and probably things would have been different. This course is exemplary in the way that whatever Chris has discussed in here has mimicked so much of what I have been through in life and is for REAL !! 5 Stars is again way too less for such a gem of a course as this and this course should be taught to all at school level compulsorily. I would recommend this course to one and all at any any stage of life as this course is a WINNER !! Thank you Chris for making and sharing such a wonderful, thought-provoking and game changing course such as this.
By Douglas McKechie on 1/1/2023
Another fantastic course by Chris. I liked how it looked at the pros and cons of different employment options and also used an animals analogy when it came to the current state a person might be in and how to improve things. As always Chris presents the material in an engaging way and gives lots of examples from his own experience. Highly recommended to those wanting to evaluate their career and life goals and make positive changes.
By Anna Bombik on 10/19/2022
There is so much to like about this course! It is so well structured, dynamic, delivered with plentiful insightful ideas - Chris just naturally makes you reflect and motivates to take action to improve. This is the third course I have done with Chris because I like his style of sharing knowledge, experience and wisdom he has gained in his life. Just brilliant! Thanks Chris ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
By Joy Klan on 5/6/2022
SO FAR IT HAS BEEN ENLIGHTING TO SAY THE LEAST, CHRIS IS AMAZING AT KEEPING YOUR ATTENTION
By Joyce Chiang on 7/18/2021
It would had been a live change if I had watched this coaching video before my first employment. Thanks for sharing your life experience with the young generation, appreciate your effort in the course content and the enthusiasm for teaching. Cheers for those who are not ready to settle but still seeking for the life purpose, you should definitely purchase this course. Joyce
By Alžběta Jamníková on 3/11/2021
The course was entertaining, Chris was great host. Eventhought, I would enjoy it rather on the beggining of my career, since the information were quite general and broad, but there were some interseting ideas and thoughts which helped me to look on my goals and career differently. Thank you Chris!
By Riaan van Niekerk on 1/6/2021
I found this course interesting and thoughtful. There was a lot of information and a quiz to see where I fit into the content. The presenter speaks clearly and there is always good information on display. He could help others with tips on making a course.
By Allan Omondi on 12/7/2020
This is an excellent course for anyone at any stage in their careers / life. It's probably better if one has a chance to do this early in their lives as there'll be opportunities to navigate well. I must say I really enjoyed and also got lots of "aha" moments as I looked back at some missed opportunities. Definitely recommended.
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