This competency involves planning, monitoring, and actively pursuing personal career goals, identifying opportunities, and reflecting on professional growth within and beyond academia.

This learning path is designed to empower individuals to take charge of their personal professional development. Participants will learn how to effectively set and review their professional development goals, ensuring they align with both personal aspirations and career objectives. The course will guide learners in seeking and responding to feedback, as well as identifying and leveraging learning opportunities that arise in their professional environments. Additionally, learners will gain the skills necessary to adapt their development plans to accommodate evolving career contexts, ensuring continuous growth and relevance in their chosen fields. Through a combination of practical exercises, reflective activities, and expert insights, this learning path provides a comprehensive framework for managing personal professional development.

By the end of this learning path, participants will be able to effectively manage their personal professional development by setting and reviewing career goals, identifying and leveraging learning opportunities, and adapting development plans to ensure continuous growth and alignment with evolving career contexts.

Key outcomes include being able to:

• Set and review professional development goals.

• Seek and respond to feedback and learning opportunities.

• Adapt development plans to evolving career contexts.