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Workforce Development Courses

Workforce development courses can help you learn talent acquisition strategies, employee training techniques, performance management, and skills gap analysis. You can build expertise in creating effective onboarding programs, implementing mentorship initiatives, and evaluating workforce effectiveness. Many courses introduce tools like Learning Management Systems (LMS) for training delivery, HR analytics software for performance tracking, and project management tools to streamline workforce initiatives.


Popular Workforce Development Courses and Certifications


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    University of Cape Town

    Disability Inclusion in Education: Building Systems of Support

    Skills you'll gain: Disabilities, Visual Impairment Education, Developmental Disabilities, Special Education, Instructional Strategies, Student Support and Services, Educational Materials, Teaching, Social Justice, Pedagogy, Differentiated Instruction, Instructional Design, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives, Diversity Awareness, Curriculum Development, Working With Children

    4.9
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    850 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Google Cloud

    Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Responsible AI, AI Product Strategy, Generative AI, Google Cloud Platform, Google Workspace, Artificial Intelligence

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    483 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    University of Michigan

    Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education

    Skills you'll gain: Instructional Design, Adult Learning Principles, Teaching, Patient Education And Counseling, Learning Theory, Health Education, Digital pedagogy, Learning Styles, Clinical Assessment, Creativity, Technology Strategies

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    541 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Google Cloud

    Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads

    Skills you'll gain: Kubernetes, Cloud-Native Computing, Google Cloud Platform, Application Deployment, Scalability, Load Balancing, Containerization, Data Persistence, Data Storage, Cloud Security, General Networking

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    1.3K reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Novartis

    Introduction to Good Clinical Practice

    Skills you'll gain: Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Clinical Research Ethics, Informed Consent, Clinical Data Management, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Patient Education And Counseling, Drug Development, Health Equity, Risk Management

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    474 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    UiPath

    Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

    Skills you'll gain: Robotic Process Automation, Data Manipulation, Email Automation, Web Scraping, User Interface (UI), Business Process Automation, Automation, UI Components, Test Automation, Context Management, Excel Macros, Data Cleansing, Network Protocols, Data Import/Export, Software Development Tools, Data Management, Unstructured Data, Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Application Deployment, Programming Principles

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    521 reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Duke University

    Python, Bash and SQL Essentials for Data Engineering

    Skills you'll gain: Pandas (Python Package), Bash (Scripting Language), Version Control, Jupyter, Linux Commands, Git (Version Control System), Shell Script, Linux, Web Scraping, Linux Administration, Data Manipulation, MySQL, Microservices, AWS SageMaker, SQL, JSON, Cloud Engineering, Python Programming, Big Data, Data Science

    4.5
    Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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    464 reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    University of Maryland, College Park

    Hardware Security

    Skills you'll gain: Hardware Design, Security Engineering, Computer Hardware, Hardware Architecture, Threat Modeling, Threat Detection, Cybersecurity, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Exploit development, Cryptography, Encryption, Exploitation techniques, Technical Design, Emerging Technologies, System Design and Implementation

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
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    691 reviews

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)

    Designing the Future of Work

    Skills you'll gain: Design Thinking, Business Transformation, Workforce Development, Strategic Thinking, Automation, Digital Transformation, Human Centered Design, Emerging Technologies, Innovation, Business Process Automation, Forecasting, Organizational Change

    4.7
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    320 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    DeepLearning.AI

    Device-based Models with TensorFlow Lite

    Skills you'll gain: Model Deployment, iOS Development, Android Development, Tensorflow, Swift Programming, Mobile Development, Applied Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

    4.7
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    654 reviews

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    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Sustainable Food Production Through Livestock Health Management

    Skills you'll gain: Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Nutrition and Diet, Food Safety and Sanitation, Public Health and Disease Prevention, Physiology, Sustainable Systems, Immunology, Biology, Microbiology, Caregiving, Environment and Resource Management

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    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    627 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    IBM

    Develop Generative AI Applications: Get Started

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, LangChain, LLM Application, Generative AI, Model Evaluation, Flask (Web Framework), Natural Language Processing, Software Development

    4.6
    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    411 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular workforce development courses

  • Disability Inclusion in Education: Building Systems of Support : University of Cape Town
  • Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot: Google Cloud
  • Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education: University of Michigan
  • Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads: Google Cloud
  • Introduction to Good Clinical Practice: Novartis
  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA): UiPath
  • Python, Bash and SQL Essentials for Data Engineering: Duke University
  • Hardware Security: University of Maryland, College Park
  • Designing the Future of Work: UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
  • Device-based Models with TensorFlow Lite: DeepLearning.AI

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