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The Buckeye Advantage: Free Readiness Resume Booster

The Buckeye Advantage: FREE Readiness Resume Booster

Are you looking for a resume-boosting opportunity to enhance your professional skills? In alignment with the Buckeye Advantage, the FREE Readiness Resume Booster training courses offer undergraduate students a tangible way to build the top skills that employers and graduate schools are looking for in candidates. These training courses are hosted by New Horizons Computer Learning Center and valued up to $395, but, as the title says, are FREE for undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences students. Each synchronous course takes approximately 8 hours and is completed in one day. There are a variety of dates to choose from (see additional details below) and courses may be completed during the summer.

There are a limited number of seats available. Students must apply, and those selected will complete one training free of charge. Access the application form here. We appreciate your dedication to bettering your professional success! For questions about the registration process, please contact Career Coach, Megan D’Angelo by email: dangelo.94@osu.edu.

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Course Descriptions:

Excel Part 1

This course aims to provide you with a foundation for Excel knowledge and skills, which you can build upon to eventually become an expert in data manipulation. Excel can help you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present your data in ways that will help the decision-makers in your organization steer you in the right direction. It will also make these tasks much easier for you to accomplish, and in much less time, than if you used traditional pen-and-paper methods or non-specialized software. This course is offered on August 15.

Excel Part 2

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level. This course is offered on August 19.


To learn more about New Horizons Computer Learning Center, check out their website linked here.