Part 2: Getting Your IDP Started

Exploring Career Values and Success

This workshop helps kickstart your Individual Development Plan (IDP) by having you focus on three foundational aspects:

  • Idea Generation: Reflect on your interests, aspirations and societal contributions.
  • Self-Assessment: Evaluate your technical, transferable and personal skills.
  • Career Exploration: Define your values and what career success means to you, then research potential paths.

Learning Outcomes

  • Expand your understanding of "career."
  • Reflect on your experience and attributes.
  • Complete a self-assessment by aligning your experiences with your values, skills and competencies.
  • Distinguish between your work preferences and values.
  • Define what career success means to you.
  • Craft a personal values statement.
  • Consider your next steps while navigating the IDP.

This course is offered 1.) synchronously as a live, virtual workshop or 2.) asynchronously as a self-directed course.

option 1: Virtual Workshop

Next session: April 20, 2026 | 1 - 3 p.m. MT | Online

Register in campusBRIDGE     Zoom Link

Option 2: Self-Directed

Need some support as you think about your IDP, but can't attend the virtual workshop dates? Enrol in the self-directed course.

Students who have taken the virtual workshop Part 2: Getting Your IDP Started: Exploring Career Values and Success cannot use the self-directed online course for their professional development hours.

Access the course here

PD Credit: 2.0 hours

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