What computer courses should I take to make myself more marketable?
by wyoguard
Question by linguist: What notebook courses should I take to make for myself more marketable?
Im 29 and embarrassed to say that I know next to nothing in this area computers. I know WORD but just what I needed to write essays as a university student. Now Im refined but I feel at a huge disadvantage because Ive got a liberal arts degree and its very hard to get a job. I have a lot of qualities and life experiences that I believe have made me a well rounded and educated person. I speak 3 languages fluently; I have lived in various countries. But as you recent college graduates know, having specific jobs skills or experience in a field are the most valuable assets. the job market isnt for those who have a broad education. Im in a post bachelor diploma now to get a teaching certificate, but I would also like to have more options, maybe work for a company in an personnel job. I have a bachelors degree in Linguistics. I GREATLY appreciate your advice; Im pretty frustrated and a small depressed. Thankfulness!
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Answer by babyrice
Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook, Access
Also, it would be helpful to know the basics of how PCs and Macs operate.
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First and foremost, don’t get frustrated and depressed. Turn that energy into something clear. Focus on your goals and stay encouraged in whatever you do!!
Next, you may want to deliberate taking courses in Microsoft Word and Excel. This may help fine tune your skills and broaden your knowledge as well as improve your abilities for the workforce.
Also friend some local colleges and enroll in other continuing education courses that may suit your career aspirations. These courses are usually fantastic for improving your skills and they are also reasonably affordable.
If you have not done so already, it ma be best to research what employment opportunities are available in your field.
Try out out this link to start your research:http://www.bls.gov/search/ooh.asp?qu=Linguistics&ct=OOH
Write down your career goals and develop an action plot to achieve them.
Stay all ears and encouraged and affirm to yourelf you can do it!
Hope this helpes.
God Bless…
If you already know WORD build on that. Then learn EXCEL and the rest of the MS-Personnel suite of products
It really depends on what you are going to be responsibility, but I’d say build on your strengths.
There are a digit of new, up and coming “Open Personnel” products, but apparently understanding MS-Personnel will make these parallel products simple to learn.
For free training, many temp and employment agencies offer free notebook-based software training courses. I did this when I got out of teach and it worked out well for me.
The above are excellent to know but I would add Quick Books Pro if you want a excellent personnel job. Very complex but may possibly not be without it to run a business. Get a used set from Half Price books or off the Internet and learn from there.
Might take a course as it IS complex.
Your best bet is to *first* sit down with a general overview from a excellent tech book series such as the “missing manual” or “visual quickstart guide” — e.g. “Mac OS X: The Missing Manual”, by David Pogue … these two fastidious series are designed to be read lonely, sitting next to a notebook, and will teach you nearly everything you need to know. Books published by O’Reilly or Peachpit are your best bet. With a general overview to the operating system of your choice, you should learn Word, Excel, and Powerpoint … Word and powerpoint you can learn from practice and exploring (they’re simpler than they look): make up bogus documents and format them to your hearts content… play with the styles and templates … read carefully a guide in the store. Excel you really need to learn from a book/workshop. Knowing Microsoft Access will make you extremely marketable to many small businesses. Many townships have community education programs which teach all of this.
You should spend in this area a month learning the OS, the bundled applications (email, address book, calendar, web browser, and so on), and what all of the settings do, and then the personnel suite should take you 4 to 6 months to get pretty competent (the bulk of the time being on Access and Excel).
The icing on the cake for a business is experience in scripting and programming languages. You should learn HTML and Visual Vital (both of which would take you a couple months), and mainly Java (which would take you a year if you took a semester-long class, which is educated at every community college in the country).