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- According to LinkedIn, online learning and upskilling courses have witnessed a surge following COVID-19.
- Business Insider has curated a list of top upskilling courses that can help existing IT and recent graduates in developing new skills.
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One of the most popular career choices in India is engineering. The job security and pay package has attracted many students and made it a top choice as a career path. This coronavirus pandemic has weighed heavily on the tech industry as well, with several tech giants across the world that have laid off thousands of employees. And, those who are employed are looking for ways to upskill themselves to improve their core competency.
According to LinkedIn, online learning and upskilling courses have witnessed a surge following COVID-19.
As we celebrate Engineer’s Day, Business Insider has curated a list of top upskilling courses that can help existing employees and recent graduates in developing new skills.
Short term courses an IT professional must take up from these top Edtech platforms to enhance their skills —
Machine Learning
Markus Winkler
Machine Learning courses help engineers, software developers, and other IT professional masters skills like Python, BD processing using Spark, Deploy ML Models, Supervised & Unsupervised ML Models, Predictive Analytics & Statistics.
Upgrad provides advanced certification in Machine Learning and Cloud. This program can help in fetching a Big Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer job.
Networking in Google cloud specialisation
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A specialisation in Networking in Google Cloud will help participants understand GCP networking technologies, such as:
- Google Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks, subnets, firewalls
- Interconnection among networks
- Load balancing
- Cloud DNS; Cloud CDN.
It will also allow people to explore common network design patterns and automated deployment using Deployment Manager.
Coursera's ‘networking in Google and cloud specialisation’ provides participants with a broad study of core infrastructure and networking options on Google Cloud Platform.
AWS Solutions Architect Course
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AWS can help professionals get a job in cloud computing.
Simplilearn’s AWS Solutions Architect Course will help the employees and professionals gain an in-depth understanding of Amazon Web Services (AWS) architectural principles and services such as IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, and more.
It can also help pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification exam by Amazon.
Data Science
Shahadat Rahman
IT professionals who wish to become Data Scientist should learn Data Wrangling, Data Visualization & Communication, Data Intuition.
Great Learning offers customised training in data science. It provides flexibility for employees, and offers training in multiple formats such as online, classroom, and blended learning.
Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence courses will let you master various aspects of artificial neural networks, supervised and unsupervised learning, logistic regression with a neural network mindset, binary classification, vectorization, Python for scripting Machine Learning applications, and much more.
Intellipaat is providing an Artificial Intelligence course using TensorFlow is an industry-recognized training program. This course will help you master:
- Convolutional neural networks (CNN), perceptron in CNN
- TensorFlow, TensorFlow code
- Transfer learning, graph visualisation
- Recurrent neural networks (RNN)
- Deep Learning libraries, GPU in Deep Learning
- Keras and TFLearn APIs
- Backpropagation, and hyperparameters via hands-on projects
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