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AI-Proof Your Career: Courses That Actually Get You Hired
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items Worried AI is coming for your job? I've worked in IT for over 20 years, and these are the certificates and courses I'd point a beginner to if they want a tech career that AI makes more useful, not less. Most don't need a degree or any coding backgrou...
Somebody has to protect companies from AI powered attacks, which makes security one of the safer bets in tech right now. This Google certificate is built for beginners and takes about 6 months part time. It also helps you prep for the CompTIA Securit...
Google Cybersecurity
The start here option if you have zero tech experience. No degree or background needed. You learn troubleshooting, networking and system administration, which is the foundation for pretty much every IT job. Most people finish in 3 to 6 months.
Google IT Support
A short course on writing prompts that actually get you good results, using techniques like zero-shot, few-shot and chain of thought. It has hands-on labs so you're practicing, not just watching videos. Being the person at work who knows how to get r...
Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Basics
The university version, if you want something from a school on your LinkedIn. Vanderbilt's Dr. Jules White teaches prompting patterns that get a lot more out of ChatGPT than most people realize is possible. No prerequisites. If you can use a browser ...
Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
Companies have more data than they know what to do with and they still need people who can make sense of it. This Google certificate teaches SQL, R and Tableau, plus how to present what you find. It pairs well with the AI courses on this list.
Google Data Analytics
AI can crunch numbers but it can't get a team to hit a deadline. This Google certificate teaches Agile, Scrum and how to manage stakeholders, and you don't need any experience to start. It pairs well with any of the technical courses on this list.
Google Project Management
Hiring managers are getting hundreds of applications per job now and a lot of them are AI generated. I wrote this free guide on building a LinkedIn presence that shows you're a real person with real skills. It covers how to spot fake job posts, setti...
LinkedIn Is Not Optional
If you'd rather build the AI than worry about it, this is the course. Vanderbilt's Dr. Jules White teaches you to build AI agents that actually do things, like explore files, write documentation and automate workflows, using Python, LangChain and the...
AI Agent Developer Specialization
No credit card, no trial period, no catch. You'll learn how to use AI to brainstorm ideas, speed up email responses, assist with research, and automate daily tasks. Takes about 6 hours to complete. When you finish, you get an official Google certific...
Digital Skills Training | DCA | Goodwill Industries®
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has a free training academy and this course teaches their AI coding assistant. It covers how Claude Code works with real codebases, GitHub, hooks and the SDK, and you get a certificate from Anthropic you can add ...
Claude Code in Action
A free certificate from Microsoft and LinkedIn that you can add right to your LinkedIn profile, and it takes under 5 hours. It covers how generative AI works, using Copilot in Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, prompting basics, and the ethics side, whi...
Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn Learning Path | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com
Instead of collecting random courses, this free 10 page roadmap lays out what order to take the certificates on this list and how to turn them into a job. Phase 1 is stacking 3 free certificates from Google, Microsoft and Anthropic in about 15 hours....
AI-Proof Your Career: The Complete Roadmap to Getting Hired in Tech
By 2029 public SSL/TLS certificates will only be valid for 47 days, so renewals go from a once a year chore to something you're dealing with all the time. The stuff that breaks the hardest, like LDAP, internal APIs and legacy systems, is also the har...
The SSL Certificate Crisis: A Practical Guide for Infrastructure Professionals
A beginner-friendly professional certificate from Google that covers SEO, email marketing, social media and e-commerce basics. It is self-paced on Coursera and builds a portfolio of practical projects, which makes it a solid first step if you want to...
Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce
A short, practical course from Google on using generative AI tools for everyday work like writing, research and brainstorming. It takes under 10 hours and needs no technical background, so it is an easy place to start if you want to show employers yo...
Google AI Essentials