Career Insights: upskilling online

If you are reading this, chances are you are an ambitious and entrepreneurial individual, who is always striving to develop new skills and competencies to improve personal and professional life. The fallback provision for training typically would be your professional development budget with the current employer, yet, partially thanks to the pandemic, and generally an accelerated development of online services, we can now be trained in almost anything, free of charge.

Here are the top selected online courses and networks to help you gain the skills you always wanted - be it Python, Marketing, or Investments.

A few pointers for those who want to:

• start in data science

• learn data analysis with Python

• kickstart on product management fundamentals

• get a deep understanding of AI (with deeplearning.ai)

• specialize on SaaS PM (with University of Alberta)

• gain IBM DS professional certificate (offered by IBM) or Google AI

• gain ML certificate (offered by Stanford)

• learn Python

• learn node.js

• learn Ruby

• improve UX? - check out this Encyclopedia and UXPin

• learn marketing with PPC University and practice with Google Online marketing challenge.

• Starting something on the side and need to promote? Check out Alison

• be better with finance - try Wealthsimple and Financial Markets course by Yale

Naturally, these are just a few examples of available courses. Checkout platforms like:

• Bento.io

• Coursera

• Codewars

• Skillcrush

• freecodecamp

• Codeacademy

Good luck in leveling up!