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The Perfect Opportunity
The Perfect Opportunity
Fanshawe professor supports entrepreneurs embarking on new ventures.
Nimira Parpia launched her career as an entrepreneur 15 years ago by following her dream.
She wanted to open a store for babies and children with the goal of providing families with safe, well-made, essential products for their little ones.
Nimira is the successful owner of Tadpole Children’s Shoppe, which at its inception, was a brick and mortar store. She has since transitioned her business entirely online, using the Shopify platform.
With her vast experience as an entrepreneur, Nimira was seeking a way to share her expertise with others who were thinking of starting their own business.
“I happened to see that Fanshawe was looking for instructors to teach microcredential courses,” she says. “I saw this to be the perfect opportunity to teach what I had learned through my career.”
Microcredentials are short-term courses focused on enhancing a person’s skill set and equipping them to grow in their career. Learners who may not be looking to pursue a full college credential can instead attain a microcredential in a few weeks or months, or add on to the credentials they have already earned.
“All of the participants I have met either have a full-time job or are taking other courses during the day,” Nimira says.
Nimira has found teaching the Shopify microcredential to be very rewarding.
“All the participants have been women who have come up with brilliant ideas for their online business,” Nimira says. “It has been such a joy and pleasure to support them in their ventures. A few of these participants were ready to launch their websites after taking the Shopify series of microcredential courses.”
Fanshawe offers 75 individual microcredential badges and 20 microcredential series badges. For those looking for an affordable way to upskill on their own schedule, it’s time to explore all of Fanshawe’s microcredentials.
fanshawec.ca/ microcredentials
