Digital Information Careers

This practical and hands on course develops data processing skills as a job competency. This data processing training focuses on transferable skills including data entry, data transformation, data modelling, and data visualizations. In addition to data processing, participants will learn professional communication skills, teamwork and collaboration, information literacy, and project management. At the end of the course, participants will complete a final project to demonstrate their workplace readiness to enter data, wrangle the data, prepare it for visualization, and analyze the data in digital economy organizations.

This practical and engaging course focuses on employability and interpersonal skills for success and explores many aspects of gaining and retaining employment in the digital workplace. Topics include transferrable professional skills, work-life balance, communication skills, business writing, teamwork & collaboration and receiving feedback in the workplace. Through active participation in interactive lectures, and �hands on� lab work, learners engage in both group and individual work. A key element of the program includes case studies which allow program participants to apply newly acquired knowledge and skills in authentic situations and settings using real-life examples, which are thoroughly debriefed. The course culminates in a group project.