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Essential Skills for Your Career Development is one of three courses in Thriving in the Digital Workplace, a program within the Institute of Coding’s Digital Skills for the Workplace portfolio of courses.

If you’ve enjoyed this course, you may also enjoy Learn about Current Digital Workplace Trends, where you can find out how digital technology is influencing how we live and work. In Wellbeing and Resilience at Work you’ll explore how to maintain a strong work-life balance and be prepared for whatever challenges your job may present you with. Both of these courses are part of the Skills to Succeed in the Digital Workplace ExpertTrack designed to improve your digital skills, help you build resilience in the workplace and boost your employability. In addition, you can find out more about the other programs in the Digital Skills for the Workplace portfolio, which you may find interesting.

Digital and Professional Skills

Throughout this Digital Skills for the Workplace portfolio of courses you can also choose to focus on digital skills or professional skills.

The Digital Skills stream explores how we can use technologies to explore new work opportunities or to develop skills that will enable you to work more effectively. Exploring these will help you to thrive in the new digital workplace.

The Professional Skills stream focuses on the abilities and qualities required in a wide variety of jobs across all work sectors. If you want to be successful at work you have to have these basic skills to work in an effective and professional way.

You can find out more about the full portfolio of courses in the short video above and in the portfolio map in the Downloads section.

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