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Career Development

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Learning the fundamentals will help kickstart your tech career journey. These courses are designed to be done side by side with any of the other career pathways.

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Is Career Development for me?
If you've never worked in IT - or even if you have - Career Development is a great way to begin your journey in the industry before delving into a specific pathway.
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What will this training prepare me for?
You'll learn the fundamental digital skills for working in the modern corporate environment, improve your digital literacy, level up your human skills and understand the basics of business consulting.

This course will prepare you to enter other WYWM career pathways with confidence.

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Introduction to Digital Skills

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Duration: 40 hrs
Prerequisites: NIL

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This course provides you with the foundational knowledge and skills required to embark on a career in tech and in the corporate environment.

In this course, you’ll learn:

  • What is Potential?
  • How to use the internet with a security mindset 
  • How do I use Microsoft Office and Office 365, this includes;  
    • Teams
    • Outlook
    • Word
    • PowerPoint
    • Excel
    • OneDrive
    • One Note
  • Video conferencing using Microsoft Teams and Zoom
  • Online communication and collaboration
  • How to prevent texts and emails ruining your relationships
  • How to write a business email
Difficulty: Beginner
Assessments: Formative quizzes & practical tasks
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Becoming a Technologist

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Duration: 10 hrs
Prerequisites: NIL

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Entry level digital skills for non-digital natives.

In this course you’ll learn:

  • The 4 basic drills of a Technologist
  • Discord and chatrooms – what they are, how they’re used in business and why they’re important
  • Video conferencing – online meetings and virtual lessons
  • Security – keep yourself secure online with the basics of passwords and 2FA (two-factor authentication)
  • Troubleshooting
Difficulty: Beginner
Assessments: NIL
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Introduction to Human Skills

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Duration: 10 hrs
Prerequisites: NIL

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This course encompasses lessons on how to cultivate strong relationships and communicate effectively. 

In this course you'll learn:

  • Emotional intelligence
  • Communication
  • Creating confidence
  • Wellbeing
  • How to tackle uncomfortable conversations
Difficulty: Beginner
Assessments: NIL
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TQ01 Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

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Duration: 2 hrs
Prerequisites: NIL

The aim of TQ short courses is to improve the overall technical literacy of students in order to better support job outcomes, client interactions, technical competency, innovation and overall company performance as a technology provider.

This 2-hour course will provide an overview of augmented and virtual reality by covering the following:

  • Introduction to augmented reality and virtual reality
  • Virtual reality (VR)
  • Augmented reality (AR)
  • XR in industry
  • XR in education and training
  • XR in entertainment and retail
Difficulty: Beginner
Assessments: NIL
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Consulting Fundamentals

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Duration: 5-10 hrs
Prerequisites: NIL

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In this course, you'll learn the foundations of consulting through a series of modules including:​

  • Introduction to consulting and the different types used in the field​
  • An in-depth look at what business acumen is and how a consultant can understand problems in an organisation ​
  • Understanding the foundational communication and presentation skills a consultant needs to know​
  • How a consultant may further their education and professional development to better assist a business
Difficulty: Beginner/intermediate
Assessments: Final quiz

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Career Development in action

Really insightful with amazing tips on how to become a better version of myself generally.
Louise C
Introduction to Human Skills
Absolutely loved the course there was some super basics, but there was a lot of tools which I didn't know that I didn't know, so very useful. I believe I will be referring back this at a later date.
Andrew H
Becoming a Technologist
It's beyond my expectation, not only detailed, but also introduce theories, practice materials, etc.
Chris W
Introduction to Human Skills
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