To change your life is not enough to read stories on the topic: "how I quit the disgusting job and did what I loved." They admire, but do not motivate. Dreams and goals are good, but you also need to live for something. It is terrible to take and expand your career 180 degrees in the middle of life. And where to get the necessary skills for the new profession? And here comes the Internet. But not with abstract instructions, but with concrete help — online training.
What is online training?
Online training is training, the meeting place of which is not the audience, but the monitor screen. In addition to hundreds of kilometers, the trainer and participants sometimes share time zones. No need to get anywhere, spend time and money. But there is an opportunity to get advice from a specialist. This is a plus. But there is also a minus: it is necessary to work out specific skills independently. Without a personal meeting, the interaction energy is lost. Participants cannot communicate with each other, because online trainings are often held in webinar format.
How it works? To participate in the webinar, you need to install a special program on your computer, register and go online at the appointed time. The coach tells, the participants listen and ask questions in the general chat. Questions are answered by the coach or administrator.
How can online training influence progress towards a career change?
- Is free. Large companies conduct open webinars. There is an opportunity to listen to the full course, pass the exam, after which get a diploma (another "trick" for the future portfolio or resume).
- Selectively. With proper arrangement of classes, memory is not sprayed onto unnecessary information. Narrow-profile training is faster.
Online training is a product of the Internet. The word "boundless" is next to them most often. This applies to communication, education, earnings and information.
What is online training for?
There are many topics for trainings. It is difficult to make a clear classification or say how this particular webinar will be useful. Watching and going through everything is not an option either. On this whole life is not enough. Let's try to consider on the example of the change of profession, what steps need to be taken:
- Basic concepts. Suppose you decide to do programming. To compete with students who "code" already from the cradle, it is impossible. But basic skills (HTML or testing, for example) will definitely come in handy. Find a coding basing webinar. Having listened to him, you are definitely poo, whether you like this occupation. If yes, go ahead.
- Help newcomer. New summary is difficult to make. Especially if the past experience does not fit into a new profession, and there are no developments in it yet. Listen to the webinar on resume writing. These are often carried out by personnel officers who have already grinned on incorrectly compiled resumes. Using examples, they will tell about all the mistakes of the applicants. Now it's up to the interview.
- Tongue. Interviewing in English is hard. But fixable. The webinar will help not only to make a CV (cover letter), but also to learn a few phrases about yourself. And there - how it goes.
- Psychological help. So, you failed the interview (and who said it would be easy). But there is good news. You understand that you want to work for yourself. This is where psychological online trainings come in handy: self-confidence, overcoming fears, increasing self-esteem.
On some online trainings you will not get far. However, as in the "naked" diploma without relevant practice. During training, you can get advice from the best practitioners and start earning money in a new profession. Perhaps with the help of the Internet.
What are the online courses
Online courses bring together students and teachers from different countries. Open courses are mostly free. The only obstacle is the lack of knowledge of the language, but much can also be mastered in the native language. Courses can simply be taken or passed the exam with a certificate. It is hard to imagine how many people in the world are keen on their profession. Many of them seek to share knowledge. Just.
Here is a short list of online courses that you can listen to in Russian:
- Design, illustration;
- Journalism, writing skills;
- History, cultural studies;
- Business, economy;
- Entertaining physics and engineering.
Who knows, perhaps the teacher’s excitement will be enough to ignite the desire of ordinary students to master the topic professionally. In addition to online courses, there are entire educational platforms. Open online universities take their studies seriously.
Entrance and final exams, the transition to the next level - all this requires good self-organization. On most platforms, some video tutorials are publicly available. And for some you have to pay. But it still costs a lot less than full-time study.
How to choose online training
To help everyone in the topics help special search engines. The problem was not the question of obtaining knowledge, but their application in life. It is difficult to stop when something is given for free. But it is worth remembering that the ultimate goal of training is a fee for work and the strength for the first step immediately becomes greater.
Let's talk about the cost of online training. The more we pay, the more valuable it becomes for us. If the coach is really cool, then the cost of training is high. The amount spent is disciplined. A check for payment, pinned up in a prominent place, constantly reminds of the need to work it out sooner.
It is difficult to assess what comes for free, but how to decide what is worth paying for?
- Start with the newsletters. They are offered today by all. If the newsletter has useful information, feel free to sign up for training. If, starting from the second (nonsensical) letter, the author aggressively offers a paid course, this is a simple pumping out of money.
- Pages of trainers in social networks. Reviews, the number of friends - all this will help to learn about him as a professional. It is worth remembering that posts in social networks are only part of the knowledge that coaches give on webinars.
- Any additional information about learning. Many coaches publish books. If you have not read them - look for real reviews. If the book sells well, then the course will be useful. What are good online training from well-known experts? They help get feedback. An inspired person does a "debriefing" for your particular job. And that's cool.
Other people's stories are other people's stories. They can inspire, but fail to make the first step. And even more so, other people's success stories will not work in your personal life. Do not want to chop off the shoulder? Do not. You can start with online training. And then make yourself the best gift - to build a life full of meaning and happiness.
