Five essential upskilling courses to take up online for better jobs post Covid-19

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With the rise of technology and the world adapting to online avenues in the new normal, skill development is not a static process, it is rather extremely important to continue undertaking these programmes at all levels.

You need to fit into more than just one role to keep up with the competition. The survival of many businesses is dependent on the aspect where they require their employees to upskill and/or re-skill themselves and leverage the cutting-edge technologies to convert their offices into augmented environments for learning.

For a change to take place, organizations must take the right decisions and invest in continuous training and upskilling their employees through various courses and training programmes. Employees can also take up courses on their own to up their game and be a step ahead in this competitive world.

We have curated a list of various programmes that will help various professionals to upskill themselves in this highly progressive landscape.

1. Udemy’s Digital Marketing Course for Beginners

Digital marketing has evolved drastically with time. And the internet has expanded considerably too. All the online ads you see, the content you read, and the images you see online are in one way or another related to the work of a digital marketer.

Udemy offers a Digital Marketing course for beginners, where one learns how to create the website, how to bring traffic to the site through Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing, Affiliate Marketing and how to convert the incoming traffic into paying customers.

It also guides on how to analyze and improve your digital marketing efforts.

2. IIM SKILLS – Content Writing Master Course

IIM SKILLS tops the list of institutes that provide training for content writing. The Content Writing Master Course at IIM SKILLS shows you how to excel in the art of content writing.

They offer the most comprehensive course that is a perfect mix of content writing and content marketing, which is the need of the hour for a lucrative job.

The course is entirely online, obliterating the need for a commute to the institute. Also, they take in only a limited number of students facilitating personal attention to every participant, irrespective of your profession.

The design is such that anyone can learn and benefit from it. The mentor/trainer ensures every candidate understands all aspects of the training.

3. Great Learning’s Mastering Big Analytics course

Big Data helps organizations to create new growth opportunities and entirely new categories of companies that can combine and analyze industry data. How is this huge amount of data handled and through what medium or tools the data is processed or stored? This is where Big Data comes into the picture.

Big Data Analytics course covers two important frameworks Hadoop and Spark, which provide some of the most important tools to carry out enormous big data tasks. The first module of the course will start with the introduction to Big data and soon will advance into big data ecosystem tools and technologies like HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Hive, etc.

In the second module, the course will take you through an introduction to spark and then dive into Scala and Spark concepts like RDD, transformations, actions, persistence and deploying Spark applications.

The course also covers Spark Streaming and Kafka, various data formats like JSON, XML, Avro, Parquet and Protocol Buffers.

4. Post Graduate Diploma in Global Education

Aditya Birla Education Academy’s Post Graduate Diploma in Global Education helps educators develop their teaching skills and knowledge in accordance with best global practices and become more effective teachers.

This online programme also provides an opportunity for working professionals to transition into the education space and make a smooth career switch. As the course is developed and delivered by globally renowned academicians, it promises academic excellence.

The salient features of PGDGE are practicum-based teaching and learning, internship opportunities in reputed Indian schools, and campus placement assistance.

5. Data Science for Business Decision Making

Upgrad in collaboration with IIM Kozhikode has launched the programme Data Science for Business Decision Making for professionals from all backgrounds.

Every business requires to use data in order to solve complex issues, so there is a purpose why Data Science has progressed as a lucrative and high-growth career option. Professionals can choose to upskill their career by exploring this alternative, by undertaking a course in Data Science

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