Skills can be defined as the needed talent or expertise to perform a task or carry out a job. Professional certification is the acquisition of knowledge and skills to carry out a task or job. An exam is carried out on the course of study before an individual can be certified.
Certification helps to fortify your degree and most likely, upgrade your skills. The acquired skills and certifications help to land jobs. More acquisition of these also help to secure promotion at your workplace and most times, you get salary increment which is a financial boost. Undergraduates can also learn skills and get certifications in different fields so as to boost their resumes and earn money.
SourceMost skills and certifications can be earned online in recent times and has made it easy for people. The following are new skills and certifications that can help you boost your finance:
1.) Digital Marketing: Digital marketing involves promoting different products or bands online. It is vital for entrepreneurs, start-up founders and marketers. Online courses on digital marketing includes SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Facebook marketing, website ads, SEM (Search Engine Marketing), mobile marketing.
2.) Programming Languages: The most interesting thing about computer programming is that it can easily be learnt for free online. Programming languages to learn include python, C++, C#, Java. With a computer, you can be a certified programmer and start earning money.
3.) Project Management: Project management certification helps acquire skills to achieve the goals of a project. It is a very complex and well-detailed certification so it is majorly paid for and not free. There are different project management certifications and the most demanding ones include:
Project Management Professional (PMP).
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).
Certified Project Management Practitioner (CPMP).
Source4.) UX and Web Design: If you are interested information technology, UX and web design will be beneficial to you. You learn how to use UX strategies to improve websites. You design a B2B websites and blogs and e-commerce sites. UX makes a website attractive, interactive, functional and successful. You also learn about IA (Information Architecture).
5.) Brainstorming: Though it sounds like an easy work or task but it is a major skill required lately by major companies. Brainstorming is using lateral thinking to approach a problem in a calm way. It involves a lot of thinking and bringing up of ideas and professing solutions to problems. There is individual and group brainstorming. Individual brainstorming involves lateral thinking on your own while group brainstorming involves group of people coming together to provide solutions to problems and come with successful ideas.
6.) Cyber security: There are different certifications under cyber security which are administered by registered organisations. Ethical hacking is the major certification under cyber security. Cyber security ensures people are safe online. Skills to acquire under cyber security include the knowledge of firewalls, networking, data science, script language, operating systems and many more.
7.) Bilingualism: This is simply when you can speak more than a language. This skill covers every sector from agriculture to finance even to health care. There are many online courses you can take to learn languages like English, Spanish, German and so on. Interpreters are needed every time and they get paid. It is even an added advantage to get international jobs and contracts.
In confusion, we should not just hold on to academic certificates alone, professional certifications go a long way in keeping Millennials occupied and with a job. Find the money and apply to get the certifications that suit your talent and/or academic qualification.
I wish I have knowledge of these all. Anyway, project management is very essential in the current market. I will recommend to most people to get it's certification. Others are very important too. Thanks for this piece.
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