5 Certifications to upgrade your resume

We all know that no matter how much we say to comfort ourselves, “A piece of paper can’t decide your future”. When we go for an interview and if you lack behind with specific certifications it feels like losing an important chance.  The world around us is growing and so the skills and competencies are also required to be grown if we want to compete with others. There is an abundance of sites that provides us with the facility to learn and earn certifications in many fields and core.

Here in this article, I’m going to share the 5 most demanding certifications and courses that you can add to your resume to stand out from the crowd. The best part is that the listed courses from these websites are free.

Here we go,

1.Alison.com ( Supervision Skills)

This website is the top most recommended if you want to advance in any course for free. There are tons of courses available for every niche domain and skill. One such course is on Supervision, This skillset is mandatory if someone is applying for managerial-level roles and even if you have this it adds an advantage to your resume. Supervision helps in creating more caring, supportive, and effective ways to achieve an organization’s goal

This course on Alison contains a maximum of 5 modules and within these modules, there are 24 different topics. Once you start the topics you can set your target to complete it and after completion, you can download your certificates for the same.

2. EDX.org ( Entrepreneurship)

EDX is well known for providing courses that are offered by some top universities in the whole world. Once you visit the page you can see there are dozens of universities that are offering all kinds of courses with quality educators. One such course is “Entrepreneurship in Emerging economies”.  The course is offered by Harvard University and Tarun Khanna is the mentor here, It consists of modules that will get completed within 6 weeks.

If you are enrolling in this course for free you will get limited access to content but if you are going to get a premium course you will get the certificate and endless lifetime access to study materials along with.

3. Hubspot ( Inbound Marketing)

Hubspot Academy is again providing free certification in inbound marketing and other topics like content marketing, lead generations, automation and many more. The best part is that we do not have to pay anything for learning or accessing this course. However, you’ll get free study materials that can be accessed anytime when you want.

Marketing and content creation topics are well known and highly demanding in this growing techie world. This course will have a maximum of 7 modules which consists of 24 different topics and it will take at least 3.5 hours to complete the course. After you complete this you’ll get a quiz which you need to clear to get the certificate.

4. Google Analytics Academy certifications to fix your resume

Google’s initiative to provide job-ready courses is always admirable. Here you will get the majority of courses on Project management, IT automation, Data Analytics and a few more. Now, the merit is that you don’t need to have any experience to access this course, Most of the top employers ranging from Accenture, Better, and Google itself gave importance to this certification and most importantly it’s a way to get a step closer to in-demand jobs.

However, these courses are not for free as such it carries a price of $14 per month and you can find these courses linked on Coursera.

5. Outside your resume with Coursera ( IBM Data Science) certification

IBM is offering a professional course on Data science which include data mining, machine learning, data analysis and the use of in-demand tools like R Studio, Python, and My SQL. Data Science is one of the most highly demanded skills in the IT and banking sector where the demand for a data analyst is at its peak. Every top employer requires a professional who can dig deep into the quantitative aspects of the business and projects future outcomes to its stakeholders.

This course will help you to get one step closer to your dream job. This course will take 11 months of time to be completed. You can attend the sessions paper your preferred schedule, and after completion, you’ll get the certificate along with a digital IBM badge to prove your proficiency in the course.

And that’s how we came to the end of this article, let me know via the comment section what more you think you can add up things to experience and resume which will help in making your resume better.