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HOW TO LIST ONLINE COURSES ON YOUR RESUME THE RIGHT WAY

Taking Online Courses can prepare you for your next job and strengthen your position as a job candidate. When you include classes in your resume, however, make sure you’re doing so thoughtfully. The best strategies for including your online learning.

First, as with every other item on your resume, make sure it’s relevant. Listing online courses, for example, when the job role doesn’t involve coding or any knowledge of it could be distracting. It might even make recruiters think there’s really some other role you’d rather be going for.

Put Them in Their Proper Place

If you’ve taken Online courses that have taught you something that will help you on the job, by all means, include them on your resume, Just keep the list of courses short, and confine them to a single, small area, such as a “Professional Training” section under your work history.

Don’t Include Any Courses that Could Be Considered “Beginning-Level”

Skip any courses that might present you as a novice in that skill area. So, if you took a course introducing students to PowerPoint, for example, you can leave it off your resume.

Its inclusion would mark you as a beginner and detract from your other areas of expertise. In short, only include courses that enhance your credibility as an expert in your field.www.iibmindia.in

Choose Your Placement Wisely

Be smart about where you list online courses on your resume. Sure, they’re educational in nature, but that doesn’t mean that they belong in your education section.

List those achievements in your education section, and then create a different section for your continuing education efforts.We recommend using a “Professional Development” – “Certifications” – “Professional Training” section (or something similar) to highlight these online courses and skills.

Show How You Put Your Skills Into Practice

Recruiters were also in agreement that providing evidence of how you put your skills into practice can help strengthen the case that your continuing education meant something. While your education is important—whether we’re talking online courses—it’s how you’ve put that education to work that really counts.

It’s crucial for candidates to demonstrate that they’re keeping their skills fresh. So, don’t just list a class you took, include a special project, or pro-bono work with your favorite charity to provide context around the results you’ve brought using that new skill.

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