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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 Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Mastering Team Dynamics

    Skills you'll gain: Team Management, Team Building, Supervision, Conflict Management, Team Motivation, Leadership, People Management, Influencing, Persuasive Communication, Decision Making, Communication, Culture

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    University of Maryland, College Park

    Online Advertising & Social Media

    Skills you'll gain: Online Advertising, Digital Advertising, Advertising, Analytics, Big Data, Paid media, Social Media Strategy, Social Media, Data Ethics, Marketing, Digital Media Strategy, Social Media Marketing, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Social Media Campaigns, Return On Investment, Descriptive Analytics, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Trend Analysis, Customer Engagement, Information Privacy

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Packt

    Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional Advanced Features

    Skills you'll gain: Enterprise Application Management, Project Management, Configuration Management, Change Control, Data Management, End User Training and Support, Data Import/Export

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Edureka

    Infrastructure as Code and Monitoring

    Skills you'll gain: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, CI/CD, Prometheus (Software), Continuous Integration, Amazon Web Services, Grafana, Continuous Deployment, System Monitoring, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Cloud Deployment, Infrastructure Architecture, Continuous Monitoring, Query Languages

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Scrimba

    Build an AI-powered Translation App with OpenAI

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, OpenAI API, Responsive Web Design, Application Programming Interface (API), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Javascript, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Application Development, Large Language Modeling, User Interface (UI), Figma (Design Software)

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Packt

    JUnit and Mockito Unit Testing for Java Developers

    Skills you'll gain: JUnit, Unit Testing, IntelliJ IDEA, Apache Maven, Software Testing, Test Case, Testability, Test Tools, Java, Mockups

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    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Coursera

    GenAI for Inside Sales: Crafting Effective Outreach

    Skills you'll gain: Inside Sales, Generative AI Agents, AI Personalization, Email Automation, Sales Development, Sales Process, Sales Enablement, Sales Strategy, Prompt Engineering, ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, AI Enablement, Content Performance Analysis, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software, Automation, Analytics

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Pearson

    Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD): Unit 1

    Skills you'll gain: Kubernetes, Containerization, Docker (Software), Cloud-Native Computing, Development Environment, Application Deployment, Software Development

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Packt

    Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners

    Skills you'll gain: Web Scraping, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Data Processing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JSON, Data Capture, Application Programming Interface (API), MongoDB, Data Storage, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

    Beginner · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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    EDUCBA

    Master HTML5 Fundamentals: Build, Design & Apply

    Skills you'll gain: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), HTML and CSS, Web Design and Development, Web Design, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Computer Graphics, Front-End Web Development, Semantic Web, Web Content, Usability, Javascript, Data Validation

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Whizlabs

    AWS: Containerization

    Skills you'll gain: Amazon Web Services, Containerization, Docker (Software), Kubernetes, Application Deployment, Cloud Deployment, CI/CD, Cloud Security, Hybrid Cloud Computing, Scalability

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Yale University

    宇宙之旅:对话 (Journey of the Universe: Weaving Knowledge and Action)

    Skills you'll gain: Environmental Science, Liberal Arts, Environment, Natural Resource Management, Anthropology, Teaching, Sustainable Development, World History, Research, Systems Thinking, Biology, Storytelling, Physics, Economics

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

  • Mastering Team Dynamics: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Online Advertising & Social Media: University of Maryland, College Park
  • Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional Advanced Features: Packt
  • Infrastructure as Code and Monitoring: Edureka
  • Build an AI-powered Translation App with OpenAI: Scrimba
  • JUnit and Mockito Unit Testing for Java Developers: Packt
  • GenAI for Inside Sales: Crafting Effective Outreach: Coursera
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD): Unit 1: Pearson
  • Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners: Packt
  • Master HTML5 Fundamentals: Build, Design & Apply: EDUCBA

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