EMPLOYMENT SKILLS COURSES

Start here to boost your confidence levels or if you have no prior experience behind a computer. Learn the basics of Windows 10 transfer pictures from your camera or phone, and create files using software already on your computer. Explore the Internet and its functions such as browsing safely, managing home pages and saving your favorite websites. Get the computer to work for you. Get an introduction to programs used frequently in the workplace and gain experience keyboarding. 

 

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Nearly every job that involves a computer requires skills with the Microsoft Office suite. In this hands-on, comfortably paced program you will learn a wide variety of ways to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint to automate your work, integrate your files and produce professional quality documents. By the end of this 10-Day program participants will have developed a comprehensive portfolio of documents that demonstrate their new or updated Computer skills.

 

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This course is a combination of the Industrial Approach to Microsoft Applications and the Excel Level 3 course. These courses are designed so that the students apply what they have learned in Level 2 in an independent environment. The focus for week 1 is exclusively on improving their global skills in Excel, Word, and Outlook. On the second week, students take a deep dive in more advanced uses in each program (Ex. PivotTables and Intermediate Conditional Formatting in Excel). They complete large projects everyday. This class models the workplace and helps the student seamlessly transition into the workforce.

 

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Learn how to create quality documents without the strain that comes with typing and clicking. Voice recognition is the technology which allows one to speak to a computer. This program can be blended into the Microsoft Office skills courses.

 

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Prior to registering for this course the student should have taken the prerequisite courses. At this level, the software has mastered your tone, intonations and accent. We have found students excelling considerably as they fully understand the differences between Windows Speech recognition and Dragon naturally speaking.

 

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With COVID, working from home has become common practice with many businesses within our society. In this one-week course you will learn the basic tools you need to successfully work remotely. You will learn how to become an effective life-long learner, create good habits, set goals and maintain the right mindset that will allow you to succeed. This class will also cover topics on the latest workplace technologies, such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

 

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Is your keyboarding technique holding you back? Whether you type with one hand or one-finger or just need to increase your speed by a few words per minute to give you the extra competitive edge, this course will give you more confidence and speed. Beginners will learn to touch-type with the alphabetic keys and some symbols. Regardless of your present level, this course will help prop you to the next level. Leave this course knowing where you stand when the employer asks how many words per minute you type.

 

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This one-week course will allow participants to walk away with the most practical skills needed to be successful in an administrative role.  A wide variety of topics will be covered, including an overview of Microsoft Word and Excel, time management and goal setting skills, and effective communications strategies.  

 

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If you are out of practice and need to refresh your skills in the Microsoft Office suite, this is the course for you. This course is suited for the student who has completed the Level 1 and/or Level 2 Microsoft Office courses. This 5 day course is fast paced and offers a great review for all the skills pertinent to you excelling in your new role.

 

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Technology has altered many career-related processes and the job application process is no exception. In this course, students who may not be familiar with the latest job searching techniques will walk away with a deeper understanding of job application websites, proper online etiquette, and the knowledge they need to step forward into a new career path. 

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Great for in-house and virtual staff. This course will show you how the Microsoft OneNote® 2016 program automatically manages backup copies of your notebooks and uses the notebook recycle bin, so that you can manage your notebook files effectively as the number of pages and importance of your notebook content grows. This course is intended for people in a variety of roles and fields who have a basic understanding of Microsoft Office 2016 and want to incorporate digital note-taking and note collaboration by using Microsoft OneNote

Duration: 1 Day 

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This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project 2013 or 2016 during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project schedule.

As you advance you will be able to get more knowledge and skills a project manager needs to update a project, plan the execution, monitor and control phases of a project. Ensure that your project is managed and completed on time, within budget, and according to scope.

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Level 1: 1 Day
Level 2: 1 Day
 

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This course is split up into two sessions. SharePoint for the End-User and SharePoint for the Site Owner.

Microsoft SharePoint® 2016 is a platform designed to facilitate collaboration and allow people to use familiar applications and web-based tools to create, access, store, and track documents and data in a central location. Information technology and applications facilitate this by allowing people to easily share, access, edit, and save information. Microsoft SharePoint® 2016 is a platform specifically designed to facilitate collaboration, allowing people to use familiar applications and Web-based tools to create, access, store, and track documents and data in a central location. In this course, you will learn about and use a SharePoint Team Site to access, store, and share information and documents. As such, SharePoint has many distinct features that must be enabled and configured, and many content structures that can be selected, added, and configured. In this course, you will learn how to create, configure, and manage a SharePoint team site so that your team or organization can share information and collaborate effectively.

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Sharepoint Site Members: 2 Days

Sharepoint Site Owners: 2 Days 

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Students will learn how to use PivotTables to summarize large amounts of data and analyze it in a variety of ways. They will also see how to create a chart from a PivotTable, modify the PivotTable, and use various options to adapt to their information needs. This will enable them to answer common business questions about the data. 

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This course is designed to teach the participant how to combine the functionality of Power View, PowerPivot, Power Query, and Power BI into graphs, charts, KPIs, reports, and other visualizations for use in their business. This course is lab example intensive.

Duration: 2 Days

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