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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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    Coursera

    Kotlin For Beginners: Data Types and Conditional Expressions

    Skills you'll gain: Kotlin, Application Development, Software Documentation, Programming Principles, Data Validation, Computational Logic, Data Mapping

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    U

    University of Colorado System

    Planning, HUDs, and Spawners in GameMaker

    Skills you'll gain: Video Game Development, Game Design, Programming Principles, Scripting Languages, User Interface (UI), Event-Driven Programming, Animations, Debugging

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • G

    Google Cloud

    Build an AI Image Generator app using Imagen on Vertex AI

    Skills you'll gain: Generative AI, LLM Application, Prompt Engineering, Application Development, AI Enablement, Image Analysis, Google Cloud Platform

    Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    M

    Microsoft

    Agile and Hybrid Approaches

    Skills you'll gain: Agile Project Management, Agile Methodology, Project Management Life Cycle, Kanban Principles, Sprint Planning, Project Management, Backlogs, Performance Metric, Project Planning, Project Performance, Lean Methodologies, Continuous Improvement Process

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    22 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • C

    Coursera

    Use Python Regular Expressions to Process File Data

    Skills you'll gain: File I/O, Test Case, Data Validation, Verification And Validation, Scripting, Data Cleansing, Python Programming

    4
    Rating, 4 out of 5 stars
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    23 reviews

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Preview
    Preview
    B

    Ball State University

    Cybersecurity and Secure Software Design

    Skills you'll gain: Cryptography, Application Security, Encryption, Authentications, Cybersecurity, Data Encryption Standard, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Email Security, Network Security, Information Systems Security, Key Management, Application Development, Public Key Infrastructure, Data Integrity

    Build toward a degree

    5
    Rating, 5 out of 5 stars
    ·
    6 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: New
    New
    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    E

    EDUCBA

    Developing and Deploying Web Applications with Python

    Skills you'll gain: Event-Driven Programming, Apache, Web Development, Web Scraping, Web Services, Web Applications, Python Programming, Web Servers, Databases, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Network Protocols, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Servers, User Interface (UI)

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    C

    Coursera

    Creating Engaging Content for Facebook

    Skills you'll gain: Content Performance Analysis, Social Media Campaigns, Drive Engagement, Video Production, Photo/Video Production and Technology, Workflow Management

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: New
    New
    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    P

    Pearson

    Introduction to Transformer Models for NLP: Unit 1

    Skills you'll gain: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library), Transfer Learning, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Modeling, Generative Model Architectures, Embeddings

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    B

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

    Climate change education

    Skills you'll gain: Climate Change Mitigation, Energy and Utilities, Water Resources, Environment, Climate Change Adaptation, Environmental Issue, Environmental Science, Land Management, Natural Resource Management, Water Quality, Sustainable Development, Education and Training, Environment Health And Safety, Teaching, Social Studies, Systems Thinking, Biology, Collaboration

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
    ·
    19 reviews

    Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Preview
    Preview
    E

    Edureka

    Business Intelligence with Databricks

    Skills you'll gain: Data-Driven Decision-Making, Data Management, Database Development

    4.2
    Rating, 4.2 out of 5 stars
    ·
    9 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Preview
    Preview
    S

    Scrimba

    Build Reusable React Components

    Skills you'll gain: React.js, UI Components, JavaScript Frameworks, Web Development Tools, Maintainability, Javascript, Programming Principles

    Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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

  • Kotlin For Beginners: Data Types and Conditional Expressions: Coursera
  • Planning, HUDs, and Spawners in GameMaker: University of Colorado System
  • Build an AI Image Generator app using Imagen on Vertex AI: Google Cloud
  • Agile and Hybrid Approaches: Microsoft
  • Use Python Regular Expressions to Process File Data: Coursera
  • Cybersecurity and Secure Software Design: Ball State University
  • Developing and Deploying Web Applications with Python: EDUCBA
  • Creating Engaging Content for Facebook: Coursera
  • Introduction to Transformer Models for NLP: Unit 1: Pearson
  • Climate change education: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

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