Want to build your digital skills? Google Digital Garage has a range of courses that are free to complete!
What are digital skills?
Employers value digital skills, especially now that we live in a digital world. It refers to the ability to use devices like computers and mobile phones and the tools that you can find on them. This can range from being able to use your email account effectively, to creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations, to using analytics software. It also involves being able to look for information on the internet and how to do that safely.
Everybody has a different level of digital skills, and how much you can do can depend on how much you need to know for your career. If you don’t know much about using digital technology, or just want to build your skills even further, you can learn for free with Google Digital Garage online courses.
What can you learn with Google Digital Garage?
There are over 160 courses available to help you get to where you need to be. Some courses are provided by Google and some are from their partners who produce great courses too.
You can filter them by 3 main categories:
- Digital Marketing: this covers everything you need to know about taking a business online. It includes everything from advertising, optimising your website, understanding your customers, creating a strategy and analysing your efforts. This is really useful if you want to work in industries like marketing or sales, and even if you want to explore self-employment.
- Career Development: this is all about you! These courses can help you improve professionally and learn essential work skills. This includes how to organise and track your work and projects using online tools, researching, designing, communicating in a business, networking and even digital wellbeing. Being able to use the internet is essential, but knowing when to take a break and step away to stay healthy is important too.
- Data: this is all about digital information. It includes coding with different softwares (Java, Python, CSS etc), website building, data analysis, cyber security, artificial intelligence and graphic design. These courses are a great way to build you knowledge, especially if you want to work closely with technology.
Live Lessons
You don’t just have to complete their online courses. There are lots of upcoming webinars about all the topics mentioned above that can help you learn too!
From digital advertising to social media strategies to keeping safe on the internet, there are live training sessions with experts that don’t require you to have any prior experience or knowledge. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and most of them range from 45 – 60 minutes.
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