psa: if you’re learning a language on Duolingo you can use it for your resumé on Linkedin, it now gives you a certificate of fluency at different levels depending on how advanced you are in your lessons
please signal boost this, many people don’t realize how important being multilingual can be in regards to you getting a job
LinkedIn is beginning to do this with job skills, and it’s going to keep growing from here.
In some ways it’s good, because it decouples job skills from college degrees, and there are a lot of people out there who can do a lot of things but never got the diploma to prove it.
But of course LinkedIn will try to leverage it to their own benefit. They own lynda.com these days, so their default move will be to say, “Hey, we see you’re in X field. Our data shows that Skill Y is relevant to that, and you don’t have it listed. Would you like to pay us to take a course for that on lynda.com?”
But don’t assume that’s your only option. There are so many FREE resources for learning skills out there, like DuoLingo, iTunesU, Coursera, edX, OEDb and MIT OpenCourseWare. Some of these even present you with certificates or badges themselves, upon completing the course.
People denigrate MOOCs now, but that’s mostly because a lot of people don’t finish them. If you can show you’ve got the skills, we’re moving into an era where you really can free-learn your way into the job of your dreams.
(Also check your local public library, because they’ve got resources. Mine does actually give you free access to Lynda.com.)
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