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How to Improve Your Qualifications At Home

How to Improve Your Qualifications At Home

seo noman883 25-Mar-2019

Your career is in your hands. You can putter along the career chain, hope you get a promotion or a raise, or you can take the initiative and make yourself into a valued commodity. Employers take notice when their employees better themselves because in doing so, you prove how driven and talented you are. Sure, not every employer will make note, and you might be unfairly passed over, but when you work hard to improve your qualifications, you also make yourself a prime candidate for any future job opportunity. In short, there is no downside to bettering yourself.

Further your qualifications and learning every day is great for your mental wellbeing, your sense of fulfillment, and your career, and with today’s modern tools and online resources, you can do it right at home:

Start With Online Courses  

Having a full-time job can put a huge damper on your quest for knowledge, but it doesn’t have to. There are so many ways that you can expand your knowledge-set and even gain certifications and a degree online in a flexible environment. This way you can easily improve yourself and showcase your hard work without the overbearing workload.  

Free Online Courses to Expand Your Knowledge  

Overspecializing can be dangerous, which is why it can be very useful to expand your knowledge using free online courses. These courses often come with a paid version that allows you to gain a small certification of completion just to provide employers (and your resume) with proof of your ambition and dedication to learning.

University Online Courses to Focus Your Knowledge

If you want to gain formal qualifications and further your career, rather than just beef up your knowledge, you will want to instead apply for an online degree. If you want to achieve a Masters's in Education online, for example, you can easily fit the course load around your career. If you are dedicated and great at time management you could complete this course in as little as 16 months, but if you need longer to handle both a degree and a career, then you can. Its flexibility means you can get that dream job and network with professionals to help you secure your future.

Tip: You can put your knowledge and industry relevance to the test by creating your very own digital course. Do it right, and you could even enjoy a healthy passive income in the process.

Read 

Achieving a degree will help take you far, but it is important to remember to keep that knowledge and those skills sharp. A good way to do this is simply by reading. There are so many benefits to reading, even if you can only convince yourself to read fiction. If you want to stay on top of your game and further your career, however, you will want to read the content published by key figures in your industry. Some examples of the industry-relevant content you could read include:

• Reports

• Essays

• Articles

• Books

Benefits of Reading for Your Career

As stated before benefits of reading can be found even if you simply enjoy fiction or poetry. So long as you commit to reading you can enjoy a better vocabulary, better grammar, stress relief, and so much more. Get into the habit of it and do try to read a mix of content from non-fiction and essays to fiction and short stories.

Attend Workshops and Events in Your Industry

For those who enjoy hands-on learning over reading and theory, there are plenty of workshops. Everyone, however, should consider enrolling and attending as many industry-relevant events as possible. Even if you don’t learn something new from them, and they only cover what you already know, you still have a great opportunity ahead of your – networking. These are people who are either established in your industry or are just starting, but getting involved and befriending them can help you succeed in your career.

You can find these events online. Do remember that there are a wide variety of ticket and event organizing sites out there, so don’t just stick to one. A good place to start is to search for university events that are open to the public. Follow them on whatever event site they use, and peruse the suggested events for more inspiration. The more involved you get, the more you should be advertised similar events in the future.

Ask Shadow Your Coworkers 

Another great way to learn with your hands and gain in-person experience and knowledge is by job shadowing. You can shadow a colleague or even someone you met through networking. Either way, a new position or set of responsibilities will always be less daunting when you see for yourself first-hand what you need to do.

Shadowing is not a complicated process, but you need to ask the permission of your employer and the person you wish to observe and work with.

It could also be beneficial to shadow someone in a different position than you. If you are a teacher, for example, shadowing a physical therapist can give you better insight on providing the right care to students who have advanced needs. Marketers can learn a lot about how to structure their advertisements and campaigns if they shadow someone in the IT department, and so on.

You can commit to a lifetime of learning and have it benefit both your wellbeing and your career. Before you put your own money forward to fund this, however, talk with your employers. Even if they are willing only to sponsor your further education, this can end up saving you a lot of money and help prove to your employer from the start how dedicated you are to bringing value to your company.

Alternatively, ask them to pay for access to an academic resource platform that publishes relevant content, or to buy industry-relevant reports for you and the rest of your coworkers. Up-to-date knowledge is key to navigating trends and thriving in future environments and is therefore of interest to every employer.


Updated 09-Dec-2021

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