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Health, Sports & Psychology
Managing Relationships and Work
The Managing Relationships theme within the Applying Psychology to Work hub has been designed to help you understand your workplace relationships. It provides you with skills, tools, resources and short courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Wellbeing for Work
Wellbeing for Work is one of the five themes in the Applying Psychology to Work hub. The hub provides tools, resources and short courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards or enhancing current employment experiences or preparing for new roles or positions.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Trust in the Workplace
In the Trust and Work theme in our Applying Psychology to Work hub we have many rescources to help you explore managing trust.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Dealing with Change
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about great change. In our Change and Work theme in our Applying Psychology to Work hub we have many rescources to help you make sense of change.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Signposts for Work
Signposts for Work has been developed as a theme within the Applying Psychology to Work Hub, providing tools, resources and short courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey.
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Education & Development
What do you know about volunteering?
Do you want to get into volunteering? Have you got what it takes? Test yourself with this quiz.
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Money & Business
MSE’s Academy of Money
The Open University has joined forces with MoneySavingExpert (MSE) to produce this new free course to give you the skills and knowledge to master your finances. Packed with videos, audios, quizzes and activities the course covers all the key aspects of personal finance in six sessions of study that each take around two hours to complete.
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Developing career resilience
Do you sometimes wish you were more resilient when faced with changes at work? Do you have career plans but feel unsure about progressing with them? If you do, then this free course, Developing career resilience, will help you to build your resilience and approach career-related change with greater confidence and motivation.
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History & The Arts
A freelance career in the creative arts
A freelance career in the creative arts is a free badged course which lasts 8 weeks, with approximately 3 hours’ study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week, there’s nothing to stop you pushing on and completing another week’s study. This course has a specific focus on the ...
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Succeed in the workplace
Do you want to change jobs, are you just starting in the job market or may be returning after a break? If so, then this free course, Succeed in the workplace, is for you. It will help you explore career opportunities. You will also gain the skills to write strong CVs and application forms, and to handle different types of interviews. By the end ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Interviews can feel very daunting, especially if it has been a while since your last one, or the job is one you are really excited about. There are ways to help overcome nerves and anxiousness, ensuring that you present your strengths in the best, and most confident way possible.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Employers increasingly use psychometrics in job shortlisting and assessment, to help them make recruitment decisions. Read on to find out more about why this is the case, what to expect and how to be more successful when taking these tests.