SHORT-TERM TRAINING
Climb the Ladder to Success W
hat if you already have a degree but your career needs a professional boost? Consider gaining new credentials or advanced training that can help you move up the ladder or improve your resume, giving you an advantage over other coworkers or potential job candidates. You can find a variety of certification training and professional development classes through Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Continuing Education which offers flexible, noncredit courses on campus, in the community and online that can raise your career status. Continuing Education is the community’s source for adult learners who want to hone particular workplace skills, need certification in certain areas, improve their marketability or simply need a refresher course. More than 34,000 individuals have taken advantage of Continuing Education during the past year to either advance their careers or
launch new ventures.This combines with 262 local companies who have worked with EICC Continuing Education to provide training and re-training opportunities for their employees. Students can complete short-term certificates – including a number of courses offered completely online. Courses are affordable and sequenced to accommodate your work schedule, allowing you to start them when you’re ready to make the commitment and you can complete many of them in just a few weeks.
Offerings include everything from information technology and business-related classes to OSHA safety Students training as well as manufacturing and completing industrial skills training. coursework Other areas include are poised to: health career training •• Advance a career or like Certified Nurse develop additional Aide and Emergency job skills Medical Technician or professional certificates •• Explore a new and licensure for barbers, career cosmetologists and food •• Earn Continuing service staff. Education Units (CEUs) •• Discover or fulfill a personal interest For more information on EICC’s Continuing Education offerings, visit eicc.edu/ ceschedule
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