Coursera Is Offering An Amazing Scheme To Help Workers Re-Train For The New Normal

Coursera Is Offering An Amazing Scheme To Help Workers Re-Train For The New Normal

Online learning platform Coursera is offering unemployed workers free access to thousands of job-relevant courses, specializations, and professional certificates.

The program will be administered through government agencies and community colleges, at zero cost to either one.

According to Business Insider, Coursera's goal is to help unemployed workers re-skill and re-enter the workforce.

Among the courses available are those that can take beginners from unrelated fields and make them ready for entry-level roles in another, like tech.

The Google IT Support Professional Certificate prepares learners for one of the hundreds of thousands of entry-level IT positions with a good median salary.

The COVID-19 Contact Tracing course prepares learners to become one of the expected 6,400 to 17,000 Contact Tracers in New York alone.

Through Bloomberg Philanthropies, that course — which takes only six hours to complete — is completely free for anyone to take.