Professional certificates are all anger among students online when they try to take advantage of red-hot requests for technology skills.
Coursera, one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, has just released a list of ten most popular entry-level certificates among Indian students in 2021.
Data Analytics, UX design, and project management certificates are the most popular.
Raghav Gupta, India and APAC implementing director in Coursera, said this certificate was designed to prepare students without a bachelor’s degree or technology experience for various high-demand digital jobs.
“For example, someone who has completed their 12th grade and hasn’t learned it but wants to work in the field of IT supporters can take the Google IT support certification course to land work,” he said.
In India, registration in the relevant entry-level professional certification with the work rose 76% last year in Coursera.
“The most popular certification course in India is a Google data analysis course.
In 2021, more than 1 Lakh learners took the course,” Gupta said.
There is also a surge in interest in social media marketing courses.
Social Media Marketing Certification Course by Facebook has seen 17,000 registrations in India since the launch of September 2020.
“Who is better to teach social media marketing than Facebook? And who is better positioned to teach sales operations than Salesforce? Salesforce sales operations certification is a course The 10th most popular in India in 2021, “Gupta said.
This certification course also calculates credit at certain universities in countries such as the US and Britain.
The University of London, Gupta said, recognizes credit from Google IT support certificates, and reduces some learning that you must do as part of your degree.
Colleges in India have not recognized this certification.
Globally, by 2021, 92 million odd user coursera most flocked to courses such as machine learning (Stanford), Welfare Sciences (Yale), Foundation: Data, Data, everywhere (Google), Korea’s first step (YONSEI ), and English for career development (Pennsylvania University).
Some trends in the labor market triggered this request for professional certificates.
On the one hand, the word gupta, many traditional sectors have lost their jobs, both travel, hospitality, retail, manufacturing.
And on the other hand, especially in the US, “a large resignation is underway, where many people don’t feel like they get what they want from their work and feel they leave a lot of new digital age and technology work.” Long-distance work boom is also a.
Other factors.
Gupta said many new jobs appeared to be in such fields, technology, digital marketing, analytics data.
What explains why people rushed for this certificate.
Data analysis, UX design is the hottest entry-level course
