Plan for Success Part 1

To kick off the New Year, SkyStem is presenting a three-part blog series to help you further your professional career – Plan for Success. In our first installment, we’ll walk you through the advantages enrolling in free online educational courses.

In this day and age, machines are increasingly gaining human capabilities. To maintain an edge in your profession, it is necessary to not only brush up on existing skills but also acquire new ones. The rise of Massive Open Online Courses, or “MOOCs,” has revolutionized the notion of lifelong learning. Platforms like Coursera and edX offer thousands of courses from hundreds of participating universities and institutions in virtually any career field.

Proactively continuing your education will position you more competitively in your profession by expanding your skill set, not to mention enhancing your personal cognitive growth. Online courses offered today range from cutting-edge data science to the psychology behind happiness, so there is truly something out there for everyone.

Leveraging these free online learning resources is one of the simplest, most engaging, and cost-effective ways to improve your quality of living. It only takes at most an hour a day or a few hours per week to be an active learner in any subject. And one of the best parts of these platforms is that you can enroll in as many courses as you want!

Accountants and other finance professionals are especially in luck: SkyStem offers free monthly webinars that also award CPE credit for qualified attendees. Be sure to keep up with best practices, changing regulations and industry updates by signing up here for our next webinar.

Your days of schooling may have ended with graduation, but education is a lifelong pursuit. Stay tuned for next week’s Plan for Success post.