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Julia Álvarez del Cuadro: MOOC’s
During the course of Training for Professional Digital Competences, I have learnt to develop my digital image through different techniques and MOOC courses detailed below:
Course 1 – Introduction to Personal Branding
This first course on Coursera platform was the most interesting for me. Learning different tools to develop my brand and control my digital identity is very useful both for the present and the future. The most important lessons that I take from Personal branding are:
- Be aware of how our image is reflected online and how others see us. Sometimes it feels wrong to self-promoting our professional selves on LinkedIN, but through the lecture ‘Does the whole idea of self-promotion feel wrong?’ and different discussions on class I have realized that we need to take advantage of the enormous opportunities that are online.
- One of the assignments in the second week was doing a Myers Briggs Personality Test and my result was the ‘loyal friend’. As the test proposed had few questions I tried others online in order to know me better.
- The importance on search engines to keep an update on ourselves or any other topic that we are interested in.
- Digital privacy was the most compelling lesson in this course due to the day to day impact that can have a missmanage of our general privacy.
Course 2 – Circular Economy: An Introduction
The Circular Economy course, in edx platform, can be very helpful for every person that only thinks on recycling when they hear the term ‘circular economy’. As I am currently doing a Master in Circular Economy I am very familiar with most of the topics of the course. Eventhough only some examples were new to me I think it was helpful to remember the main objectives and actions of circular economy.
The most interesting topic for me was the chapter called ‘Thinking in systems’, related to the metals scarcity in Europe and all the comments made by Dr Ester van der Voet about the metals in Europe, the urban mining…
My outcome of both MOOCs is the incredible development that digitalisation has supposed in the professional world to be able to grow your knowledges in different topics that can be useful. After finalizing them I have made some changes on my Personal Learning Environment. Check it below!
Thank you for reading my thoughts about this courses and the subject of Training for Professional Digital Competences!
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Julia Álvarez del Cuadro
Julia Álvarez del Cuadro
My professional future
During my bachelor I never had any clear direction for my professional future, and eventhough I am currently focus on a master related to circular economy, I do not know where this will take me, as there are a wide range of topics and carreers in this area.
I only know, as a young professional who started working less than a year ago, that I see my professional future in a combination of the following characteristcs that will be very present in a few years from now when I search for new possitions.
Julia Álvarez del Cuadro
Environment
Work on environment projects.
Some topics that I am very interested in:
- Renewable energies
- Raw materials
- Circular economy.
- Environmental legislation.
- European projects.
Demand
Love but not depend on my job.
I pretend to work on something that I like and that I will be good at, but not having the work as the center of my life.
Location
Staying in Spain is a priority.
Eventhough I would love to live in another European country for a while, I know that my professional future will be in Spain, specially in the North.
Julia Álvarez del Cuadro
Hello!
I am Julia Álvarez del Cuadro, an Industrial Engineer coming from the North of Spain. Currently, I am following a Master in Circular Economy with a focus on Minerals and Construction Products. I am also working in a Technological Center of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the Official Laboratory José María Madariaga.
My first contact with Circular Economy was during my bachelor thesis, and since then I new that I wanted to continue my studies around that topic.
I hope that my professional future will allow me to work on envirnonmental projects, specialy energy related where I can apply my best skills and knowledge.
Let’s keep in touch!
