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6 Free Websites that Will Help You Improve Your Resume Skills Section

Posted: 31 Mar 2016 07:00 AM PDT

The best way to improve your resume skills section is by improving and expanding your actual talents. Check out these six free online resources and get started!

As you work on writing and formatting the skills section of your resume, keep one thing in mind: The best way to improve this section is by improving your actual skills. The more you know, the more traction you’ll gain with employers. Here are six free websites that can help you boost your existing skill sets and expand the list of talents you have to offer to a potential hiring manager. Visit these resources and create a skills section that can help you show off, leave a lasting impression, and ultimately get ahead.

Code Academy

Visit Code Academy to learn more about the resources available to ambitious employees who want to improve their coding skills. In just a few short lessons, you’ll learn to create a website and create one of your own with four pages. When you’re ready, you can move on to Angular JS, Ruby on Rails, Java, and SQL.

Chandoo

A trip to Chandoo can help you improve your Excel graphing and database management skills and, as the site says, “Become awesome at Excel.” There’s more to Excel than most casual users recognize. The more you learn about this functionality, the better equipped you are to tackle complex issues.

Udacity

Udacity offers a wide range of tech-centered courses that can help you increase your contributions to your current (or future) company, but these aren’t just courses offered by random strangers on the internet; they’re designed by large organizations, like Amazon and Google, and provide documentation of completion that’s generally respected by industry employers. Courses range from Beginning iOS App Development to Machine Learning Engineer.

Coursera

Coursera offers some of the best courses available anywhere, sponsored and backed by universally respected universities (such as Duke, Stanford, and UC San Diego), all for free. Choose from a huge catalog of courses from data science, to finance, to coding, to psychology.

You Suck at Photoshop

Perhaps you work in a creative field. Even if you don’t currently use Photoshop, you may need basic skills to be eligible for a promotion. Rather than toiling away with a series of trial and error, check out the informative YouTube series You Suck at Photoshop. These engaging video tutorials cover an array of Photoshop effects (including layer effects, cloning, and warping).

Duolingo

Duolingo can help you learn a new language in just a few minutes per day. Visit the site and take a placement test that can assess your current level of skill, then sign up for a short daily program that can steadily improve your fluency.

For more on how to build the kinds of skills that can impress employers with minimal cost and investment, turn to the tools and guidelines available on Quintcareers.

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