Digital Skills & Confidence building courses

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Join us for two hours twice a week for 4 weeks or once a week for six weeks, working on real-life charity projects to give you the digital & work ready skills to be in demand. Combined with digital learning the course is designed to build the soft skills in demand by employers. The courses are run from The Curious Lounge in Reading Town Centre and is CPD accredited, so anyone completing the course receives certification.

Topics covered include

  • Introduction to social media marketing and how it’s used in business

  • New apps used by the digital community to win new customers

  • SEO – why should we care?

  • Data visualisation tools to make stats look beautiful

  • Web content management & build your own website tools

Employability Skills:

  • The magical art of CV writing

  • How not to mess it up in the first five minutes interview training

  • Build an online profile to be attractive to prospective employers

  • Work on real life projects across the four weeks to use your learning in real life applications.

  • You will document your progress through a diary that will give you a digital footprint to showcase to prospective employers.

     

Spend just 6 weeks part-time, working on real-life charity projects to give you the digital & work ready skills to be in demand. We'd love you to join us on our digital journey which builds your confidence to find the job you've been looking for. The total study hours are 16 hours learning with a tutor and 16 hours hands on project homework.

 

Who to contact

Contact Name
Louize Clarke
Contact Position
Chief Mischief Maker
Telephone
07854 189407 07854 189407
E-mail
hello@thecuriouslounge.co.uk
Website
Digital Skills
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Where to go

Name
The Curious Lounge
Address
1st Floor, 20 Tudor Road
Reading
Berks
Postcode
RG1 1DU
Directions to RG1 1DU

Time / Date Details

When is it on
Rolling dates available
Time of day
Afternoon

Availability

Referral required
No
Referral Details

You can refer yourself but you need to be economically inactive or unemployed to qualify for a free place

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