Develop your career story and learn crucial communication skills
July 6, 2026 •
This July, UCOP Learning and Development is offering several opportunities to strengthen your professional toolkit, from polishing your resume and LinkedIn profile to building influence and practicing reflective listening. Whether you’re exploring your next career step, looking to communicate more effectively or finding new ways to lead from where you are, these classes offer practical strategies you can apply right away.
Live online courses
Career Development Tools
July 8, 11 – 12 p.m.
UCOP offers various on-demand career development tools available to you at any time. LinkedIn Learning and My UC Career are two tools that you can utilize at any point in your career development journey. We will review the capabilities of the tools and how to make the most of these resources. Additionally, come learn best practices for building your story-driven LinkedIn profile and brand.
Influencing Without Authority: Leadership as an Individual Contributor
July 17, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Dive into the leadership skills all “rockstars” need to become influential contributors: building trusting workplace relationships, managing up, carving out a niche area of expertise and connecting the dots from their role to the organizational mission. In this training, you’ll gain insight into your unique position of influence at UCOP while exploring the leadership skills of relationship-building, managing up, honing expertise and aligning your work with our organizational mission. Then, you’ll put your skills to work by identifying one skill to strategically focus on for the next month.
Crafting an Effective Resume
July 31, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Learn how to turn your experience into a resume that gets noticed! In this interactive two-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to highlight your strengths and avoid the most common mistakes recruiters and hiring managers see. The session will focus on telling a cohesive story, formatting, sections to include and strategies to minimize the impact of unconscious bias in a recruiting process. We’ll also discuss AI and the Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Come prepared with your most current resume to reflect on during the session.
Reflective Listening
July 10, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Reflective listening is a crucial skill for today’s workplace — for leaders and team members — and it’s a skill that you can learn. This course will introduce you to some of the fundamentals of Reflective Listening, allowing you to start practicing today. This course is part of the UCOP Communication series certificate.
Self-paced learning
The UCOP Learning and Development team has created targeted Linkedin Learning collections with custom-selected courses and videos to support UCOP colleagues in building career and communication skills. Select each topic to get started.
New to LinkedIn Learning? Start here.
For questions, contact ucopld@ucop.edu.
Tags: career development, communication skills, professional development
