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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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Education & Development
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
The benefits of outdoor green and blue spaces
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increased focus on the value of participating in nature. This article explores how outdoor spaces can improve our mental health.
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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.
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Money & Business
Learn with Start Up Loans
A partnership designed to help UK businesses get off the ground and stay there.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Developing emotional intelligence skills can help us to be more successful in both our personal and professional lives: developing better ...
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Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Values are things that matter the most to you for the way you live and work. This article should help you to identify which ones are most important to you.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Self-limiting beliefs can often creep into our thoughts and lower our self-regard (respect and acceptance for ourselves, despite any shortcomings). However, even in challenging times, it is possible to consciously change how we think about ourselves, reframing unhelpful beliefs and building more confidence to achieve goals and positively move ...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy which offers simple tools to help deal with everyday life challenges, and effectively handle difficult thoughts and feelings, accepting what is out of our personal control and committing to action that improves our lives.