Thanks to the wide range of online courses offering free courses, we can now acquire knowledge of almost any skill on the web. And now we can also learn to look for a job. Google and Udacity have created free courses ranging from how to prepare an interview to the keys to improving your CV.
Looking for a job has become a skill. To stand out from the many candidates who sign up for a job offer, you first need to make sure you have a good resume and optimize your LinkedIn profile, and now you can learn how to do it with the new online courses from Google and Udacity.
The e-learning platform has teamed up with the giant from Mountain View to help candidates increase their chances of getting a job. This is the first time that Udacity has offered this type of content focused on job searches.
They will offer 12 free online courses that will cover everything from how to improve your CV, to the keys to writing a good cover letter. They also cover more technical and specialized topics with their course on Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift in hands-on job interviews, among others.
Half of the courses they offer are aimed at helping candidates prepare for job interviews for different technology positions – from data scientist to virtual reality developers. The project began with its trial course on how to use networking for professional success, which was available in March’18 for 60,000 people.
So far it has been seen that endless courses to acquire the skills most in demand by companies on platforms such as Udacity or Coursera, with which Google has partnered on more than one occasion in the past. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that candidates not only need to be able to program or analyze data, they also need to differentiate themselves in increasingly competitive selection processes.
Training courses would be conducted by industry professionals and will include rich online course content, interactive quizzes, and would be self-paced.
“The next generation of talent will enter the job market with a wide variety of skills, but facing a lot of competition and increasingly changing recruitment processes,” Kathleen Mullaney, vice president of careers at Udacity, said in a company statement.
Mullaney stressed that the new training offered by Google and Udacity is not only aimed at young people. “Employees looking for a career change, older workers looking to return to the job market and anyone looking for a job will find value in these courses as well,” he explained.
