LinkedIn keeps growing its list of collaborations and partnerships, which is a good thing considering that LinkedIn is also the author of the ‘Inclusive Language Guide’; that and the fact that increasing online collaboration is also currently a growing trend. On that note, LinkedIn has announced a new educational partnership with GitHub, which will provide more training resources for software developers within its LinkedIn Learning platform.

Top-Level Code Training

As you can see in this overview, the new LinkedIn Learning with GitHub Codespaces integration will enable developers to get real workplace-like practices to boost their coding skills. As LinkedIn explains:

“Now, you can learn and practice in real-world environments at any stage in your software development career – from beginner to advanced – in the most popular programming languages on LinkedIn Learning. So whether you’re learning SQL or advancing your Python coding skills, a developer can get straight from learning to writing code.”

GitHub’s Codespaces will be available in more than 50 LinkedIn Learning tech courses, providing ‘real-world software development environments’ for the most popular programming languages. At the very least, they stand to be good skills to have. Most people don’t need to be proficient in coding, but having base-level knowledge comes in handy, and can help you better understand how key systems work.

On another front, LinkedIn has also listed its top 10 courses to grow your Social Media marketing skills for those looking up to their marketing knowledge. According to LinkedIn:

“Social media marketing skills continue to be cited as one of the most important competencies for marketers – an enduring trend that shows no signs of changing.”

To add to this, LinkedIn’s also adding a new ‘career pathing’ process for tech-specific roles, which will provide more guidance for those that use LinkedIn Learning on how to move forward in their chosen careers.

Lastly, LinkedIn’s also adding new preferred language options within the LinkedIn Learning Hub, along with machine-translated subtitles in over 20 languages for all 9,000+ English courses. This is more of a quality-of-life addition (QOL), rather than a new feature. Functionally though, it does bring more to the table.

The Wrap

LinkedIn Learning is a perfect complement to LinkedIn’s professional social networking roots, and with more than 27 million LinkedIn Learning users, and growing, its course offerings continue to evolve, and provide more credible and recognized qualifications all accessible online. It could be worth exploring what LinkedIn has on offer to help improve your career prospects.

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