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Home>Business Planning>Can Online Training Classes Really Benefit Your Career?

Can Online Training Classes Really Benefit Your Career?

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Aaron

OK, you’ve been to school, then onto college or maybe university and now

you’re either ready to enter the workplace, or you’ve been making waves

in it for some time. Of course, work in itself is a learning experience; new

skills, new people-managing techniques and even learning how to make

the perfect chipotle round at your Mexican colleague’s home. You never

stop learning, in fact.

This is all great, but being able to defuse arguments and wield a mean

chili pepper isn’t going to make your resume any heftier, are they?

These are softer skills – invaluable, but harder to promote and work into

an interview. This is where further education and career development

comes in to move you up the ladder.

Online courses can offer a real career boost

The internet has revolutionized just about everything in our lives, even

the way we gain new qualifications. Name any subject you can think of

and there’ll be a course to help you understand it more and sometimes to

come away with a recognized qualification. From food safety to

astrophysics, if you want to learn it, it’s out there, especially if you go

somewhere like The Knowledge Academy.

One of the advantages of online courses is that you can fit them around

your existing commitments – work (obviously), family and hobbies, and

take as long as you need to complete the training.

Sounds great, but will it really help my career

Online courses also take time, of course, they do, but you don’t have to

schlep to the college and back; if you have just 15 minutes to spare after

the kids are in bed, then that’s 15 minutes nearer to your goal. It’s

another commitment, but a hugely more flexible one.

You should, however, go into it with the aim of getting demonstrable

results. That astrophysics course? It’s very interesting but not much use if

you’re an accountant; an Innovation for Accountants course might be,

though. Talk about your key takeaways with your boss and see how you

can implement your new ideas and skills day-to- day.

Visualize the benefits

You could create some dummy work using the things you’ve learned. Use

some previous projects as the base and do a re-run, maybe, or bring in

something totally new.

Stay ahead of the competition

If you’re in a field where there are lots of advancement opportunities, but

where the competition is fierce, then doing an extra course on your own

time will earn you some Brownie points. If you’re in IT or a similar

industry, things move incredibly fast and so you need to be able to at

least keep up with the curve.

There’s even room for that astrophysics course once you’re done with the

accounting and stats courses – a good grounding in Science, Technology,

Engineering and Maths (STEM) is useful whatever you do. You might also

want to think about languages – every little bit helps!

In short

Taking an online course can help your career along, but you’ll need to

prove to your employer, or prospective employer, that the things you’ve

learned will noticeably benefit the company.

OK, you’ve been to school, then onto college or maybe university and now

you’re either ready to enter the workplace, or you’ve been making waves

in it for some time. Of course, work in itself is a learning experience; new

skills, new people-managing techniques and even learning how to make

the perfect chipotle round at your Mexican colleague’s home. You never

stop learning, in fact.

This is all great, but being able to defuse arguments and wield a mean

chili pepper isn’t going to make your resume any heftier, are they?

These are softer skills – invaluable, but harder to promote and work into

an interview. This is where further education and career development

comes in to move you up the ladder.

Online courses can offer a real career boost

The internet has revolutionized just about everything in our lives, even

the way we gain new qualifications. Name any subject you can think of

and there’ll be a course to help you understand it more and sometimes to

come away with a recognized qualification. From food safety to

astrophysics, if you want to learn it, it’s out there, especially if you go

somewhere like The Knowledge Academy.

One of the advantages of online courses is that you can fit them around

your existing commitments – work (obviously), family and hobbies, and

take as long as you need to complete the training.

Sounds great, but will it really help my career

Online courses also take time, of course, they do, but you don’t have to

schlep to the college and back; if you have just 15 minutes to spare after

the kids are in bed, then that’s 15 minutes nearer to your goal. It’s

another commitment, but a hugely more flexible one.

You should, however, go into it with the aim of getting demonstrable

results. That astrophysics course? It’s very interesting but not much use if

you’re an accountant; an Innovation for Accountants course might be,

though. Talk about your key takeaways with your boss and see how you

can implement your new ideas and skills day-to- day.

Visualize the benefits

You could create some dummy work using the things you’ve learned. Use

some previous projects as the base and do a re-run, maybe, or bring in

something totally new.

Stay ahead of the competition

If you’re in a field where there are lots of advancement opportunities, but

where the competition is fierce, then doing an extra course on your own

time will earn you some Brownie points. If you’re in IT or a similar

industry, things move incredibly fast and so you need to be able to at

least keep up with the curve.

There’s even room for that astrophysics course once you’re done with the

accounting and stats courses – a good grounding in Science, Technology,

Engineering and Maths (STEM) is useful whatever you do. You might also

want to think about languages – every little helps!

In short

Taking an online course can help your career along, but you’ll need to

prove to your employer, or prospective employer, that the things you’ve

learned will noticeably benefit the company.

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