LinkedIn Launches Free AI Certification Courses via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

LinkedIn launched 3 caller AI nonrecreational certificates today, making them disposable for escaped done December 31.

This is portion of LinkedIn’s inaugural to code the increasing request for AI skills successful the workplace.

Free Certificate Programs

LinkedIn is offering 3 specialized certificates astatine nary cost.

1. LinkedIn Recruiter and AI-Driven Talent Acquisition

• Focuses connected precocious LinkedIn Recruiter features
• Covers campaigner hunt strategies and precocious filtering
• Includes targeted outreach techniques

2. Generative AI for Recruiting

• Explores AI’s interaction connected HR practices
• Addresses DEI considerations successful AI recruiting
• Features six courses, including “Generative AI successful HR” and “Harnessing AI for Effective Interviewing”
• Led by manufacture experts, including Dr. Terri Horton and Glen Cathey

3. Generative AI for Learning and Development

• Covers AI implementation successful organizational learning
• Includes personalized learning strategies
• Features courses connected upskilling and AI literacy
• Taught by professionals including Megan Leatham and Dr. Terri Horton

Additional Free Courses

In summation to the caller certificates listed above, LinkedIn is making respective existing courses disposable for escaped until the extremity of the year.

Additional escaped courses include:

1. Transforming Business with AI Agents: Autonomous Efficiency and Decision-Making
2. Fundamentals of Agentic AI: Business Implications and Ethical Insights
3. Critical Human Skills for the Age of AI
4. AI for Organizational Leaders
5. AI for Managers
6. Career Essentials successful Generative AI
7. Build Your Generative AI Productivity Skills with Microsoft and LinkedIn
8. Microsoft Copilot for Productivity

Addressing The Skills Gap

LinkedIn information indicates that 68% of occupation skills volition alteration by 2030, highlighting the request for AI upskilling.

In caller grounds earlier a U.S. Senate subcommittee, LinkedIn’s main economist Karin Kimbrough stated that companies indispensable put successful AI grooming to stay competitive:

“A increasing fig of employers are realizing the request not lone to question retired caller workers with AI skills but, much importantly, to make their ain AI workforce.

Business leaders who neglect to give the resources indispensable to reskill and upskill their AI endowment hazard falling down companies who are making these investments and seeing productivity gains from leveraging this technology.”

New Course From Google (Not Free)

In related news, Google has expanded its AI acquisition materials with a caller “Prompting Essentials” course.

This course, disposable done Coursera, teaches you however to usage AI successful 5 steps. It covers skills from email adaptation to information visualization.

Unlike LinkedIn’s escaped offerings, the Google people requires a Coursera membership.

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SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer astatine Search Engine Journal

Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s grade successful communications, ...