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Best Jobs and Career Paths for Remote Work
Since the beginning of the pandemic, all businesses have had to pivot to find more creative ways to keep the doors open while asking employees to work remotely. While COVID-19 brought the possibilities of remote work into the foreground, there has been a strong movement for remote work building up long before.
The Benefits of a Capstone Project
One of the many benefits of completing a certificate program at Digital Workshop Center is the opportunity to complete a capstone project. After you have completed all of the classes for your program you will begin your capstone project. In this article, we’ll be discussing the benefits of a capstone project and what to expect as a student at Digital Workshop Center.
Adobe Behance: Getting Started with your Portfolio
If you use the Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Behance is the preferred platform for your online design portfolio. And for good reason. In this post we discuss the best ways to get started with Adobe Behance and start showcasing your work today.
Professional Certificates versus Community College Degrees
Students across the U.S. are finding that Professional Certificates are a faster, more affordable path to obtaining job ready skills for the workforce. While Community College degrees have their unique set of benefits, a professional certification has become more popular than ever in our skills-based hiring world.
GI Bill ® Education Options for Veterans
For Veterans looking to explore GI Bill ® education options, there are a lot of confusing options to navigate through to find which program is right for you. Based on your service and education benefits available, you could have a variety of programs that will help you advanced your education and job skills training.
Using Google Drive Effectively
If you’re new to using Google Drive, take a look at the following guide to learn how to create an account, upload and download documents, share your files, and get the most out of the service.
PowerPoint Master Slides Tips & Tricks
Working with PowerPoint Master Slides is one of the best ways to improve your productivity while creating presentations. Master slides provide an easy way for you to create various templates of individual slide layouts, color palettes, typography, and more. As you explore PowerPoint Advanced training, we have prepared for you some of the most common tips while using PowerPoint Master slides to help you utilize this essential PowerPoint skill.
Which Digital Marketing Job Is Right for You?
In this blog, we discuss six digital marketing jobs that are available for beginners in the industry who are looking to start their marketing career, the national average salaries and steps to gain the skills required to land the position.
Top skills needed in Data Science careers
In the past decade, there has been a major shift in the demand for data science careers. In 2020, the median salary for data scientists was over $122k, according to the Bureau of Labor & Statistics, and the BLS expects this demand to continue to rise for a long time. As you consider how you will get started with your data science career, there are several skills you need to hone in order to compete in the workforce.
Utah Scholarship Opportunities
Utah residents have several scholarship opportunities for training and up-skilling If you are unemployed, underemployed, or suffering hardships due to the recent substantial changes to the job market, then it may be time to find new education opportunities to boost...
Digital Workshop Center celebrates 15 year anniversary
Remington Street in Fort Collins is not what most people think of first when they consider the center of higher education in the US. Especially, not when you compare to the campus areas in Northern Colorado that house major universities including Colorado State University and Front Range Community College, both with sprawling land areas that continue to grow year over year. However, sitting just one block away from Old Town Fort Collins is the Digital Workshop Center, an online technology school that continues to have a major impact in the education community, and growing to reach more students every day.
VRRAP Funding for Certification Programs
Recognizing an opportunity to help the Veteran community with obtaining more job skills, the VA has recently rolled out a new training program for Veterans seeking vocational certification called Veterans Rapid Retraining Program or VRRAP. Digital Workshop Center is excited to be an approved technology training institution to provide certificate program education to all eligible Veterans. Many prospective students have already reached out to schedule advising calls and take advantage of this new opportunity. We want to help answer some common questions and provide guidance to Veteran students considering the VRRAP program as best as we can.
How to use Linkedin to find a job
Whether you are new to LinkedIn or have been using it for years, we created this guide to maximize your job search efforts.
Minnesota Vocational Rehabilitation services
Digital Workshop Center (DWC) is excited to be an official partner and vendor for Minnesota Vocational Rehabilitation services. We have been providing expert occupational training for Vocational Rehabilitation clients for over 7 years now, but this new partnership with Minnesota Vocational Rehabilitation means that we can create individual training plans towards employment for the people of Minnesota, help case managers with career counseling, and so much more.
Building Your Project Management Career Path
A project management career path is highly adaptive and offers opportunities across all industries. According to the Project Management Institute’s Job Growth and Talent Gap report, employers will need to fill 87.7 million new project management-oriented roles between...
Getting Started with WIOA in Wisconsin
If you are getting started with a grant through WIOA in Wisconsin, there are a lot of various organizations, terms, and processed along the way that can be confusing and intimidating. To help students better navigate WIOA in Wisconsin, we put together a simple guide on expectations, timeline, and key points that will help you determine your eligibility and get the funding you need to get back to work.
Choosing The Right Design Career Path
Graphic, video, web, and UX design are all rewarding career choices if you dream of a career that is challenging, fast-moving, and creative. While some skills overlap each path is unique depending on which route you decided to go. In this blog, we breakdown each of these design career paths to help you decide what type of design is right for you.
Guide to Creating Custom PowerPoint XML
If the default combinations of PowerPoint Styles, Themes, and Variants do not get you the desired result you need, you may need to edit the XML of a Theme file to create the best outcome. We created this guide to help you create custom PowerPoint XML.
Top Five Adobe Captivate Productivity Tips
Adobe Captivate is a robust eLearning development tool. When utilized correctly, developers can create a variety of engaging and interactive eLearning courses. To make the most of this tool, here are five Adobe Captivate productivity tips to get started.
UX Careers: Six Main Responsibilities of a UX Designer
A career in UX design is fast-paced, challenging and requires a highly diverse skill set. While UX designers have a variety of specializations, there are some general functions a UX designer can be expected to perform regardless of the company they work at. Here are six main responsibilities that you will find in UX designer job descriptions.