Career Path - Career Starters

Last week, we took a quick break from our various skills series to spotlight digital marketing careers. Please remember you can always submit your requests for our next career spotlight in the comment section—we appreciate your input! This week, we’re returning to our exploration of practical AI skills. You’ve already used GenAI tools to refine…

Welcome to another career spotlight! This week, in celebration of the newly launched Unilever Digital Marketing Analyst Professional Certificate, we’re shining a light on digital marketing—what it is, who should learn it, and where to begin. First, what is digital marketing? Digital marketing is a catch-all term for all areas of marketing that exist in…

This week we are talking about another highly transferable technical skill: project management. We talked about project management when we discussed high-income skills, but as the term shows up more frequently during the job search, it’s worth spending a bit more time clarifying what it means. Depending on the context, “project management” can refer to…

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights on how you use ChatGPT to enhance your resume—and for your tips to avoid over-embellishment. We’re excited to keep talking about ways we’re using GenAI tools to boost productivity in future issues. This week, however, we thought we’d shine the spotlight on someone like you, a learner,…

(GenAI) when we talked about refining your career goals. This week, we’ll take it a step further with some practical applications of GenAI that you can incorporate into your everyday tasks. As instructor Andrew Ng explains in DeepLearning.AI’s Generative AI for Everyone course, AI is a general purpose technology—meaning it has a wide range of…

Lisa is a proud mom and homeschool teacher in Barbados, the most easterly island of the Caribbean Archipelago. She dreams of starting a business that supports other businesses caring for their employees. She wants to provide them with health services that feel safe to access. With this dream in mind, Lisa is earning her MSc…

So far, we’ve heard about your various desires to strengthen your skills in data analysis, project management, information security, artificial intelligence, and human resources. Would you believe it if we told you that there is a technical skill that shows up in all of these fields and more? It’s spreadsheet software. Spreadsheet software, like Microsoft…

Picture it: You’ve made it to the end of your interview for your dream job. You sailed through your reasons for applying and answered every behavioral and situational question with ease (thanks, STAR method!). You’re down to the final question: “Do you have any questions for me?” No sweat. You knew they’d ask this question—they…

Last week in our job interview series, we talked about behavioral interview questions, which ask about your past experiences in the workplace. This week, we’re discussing situational interview questions, which are questions about hypothetical future situations. These types of questions help an interviewer better understand what you might do or how you might react under…

Welcome back to our interview series. Last week, we kicked things off with one common interview question, “Why did you apply for this role?” This week, we are wading into another frequently asked question—and the topic of the most-read article on Coursera—“What are your strengths and weaknesses?” Strengths and weaknesses is a classic behavioral interview…