🚀 Just Launched: 7 New Career Accelerators – Now 13 in Total!Announced
Hi instructors,
We’re excited to announce the launch of seven new Career Accelerators, bringing our total to 13 job-aligned programs that help learners build the skills they need to launch or advance their careers in high-demand fields.
This is also a great way for us to showcase our instructors and bring more traffic to your courses.
🎯 Now live:
AI EngineerCybersecurity AnalystData EngineerFinancial AnalystMachine Learning EngineerSoftware EngineerUX Designer 📚 Explore all 13 programs:
Check it out here.
As more professionals look to upskill, switch paths, or stand out in a competitive job market, Career Accelerators are one example of how we're positioning Udemy as a trusted partner in lifelong career growth.
Thank you to all of our instructors who have partnered with us on Career Accelerators and hopefully with new instructor bundling capabilities coming later this year, more instructors can create their own career bundles to address this use case.
Thank you for being part of the journey.
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Thanks for the exciting update! The Career Accelerators initiative sounds like a fantastic way to support learners in their professional growth and I’d love to be part of it.
I noticed that several of my courses align with the fields mentioned (e.g., AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Software Engineer) and are currently ranked highly with strong reviews and enrollments. I was a bit surprised to see they weren’t included and would love to learn more about how instructors can opt in or be considered for future inclusion in Career Accelerators :)
The currently available thirteen “Career Accelerators” all appear to be aimed at the degreed class, or “professional” class of workers. I wonder if there might be even a bigger market among the non-degreed … men and women who work in the various trades who entered through apprentice programs, trade-schools or with associate degrees. Nowadays these jobs have equal, or even better, earnings potential than so-called “professional” positions.
Good point @GeneWarner137 we have a project we are currently looking at, which is called "frontline workers" these could be trade workers or others e.g. think of all the Starbucks baristas, even nurses etc - we are still in the investigative phase to understand what courses and skills are of most interest to this segment - would it be communication, project managaement, customer service, finance etc. So right now - I dont have a date to say this is when we will deliver that, but it is on the list under review. Would welcome your thoughts in this area if its an area of interest for you
Most international jobs start with communication in English; especially frontline workers. My English classes comprise a fast program on Udemy that jump-starts their communication skills (from beginning to advanced): Best ESL English, English for Success Fast, Beginning; More ESL English, Popular Listening Fast, Intermediate; and (How to Get) Your Best English Fast, Advanced.
Listening skills are the foundation of good English. If you can listen accurately, you can hear important new vocabulary and the most useful phrases around you.
AI is excellent for many things, but at this moment, its greatest weakness linguistically is listening. I've been teaching Business English for employees of large international companies for many years, and my customers have shown me the transcriptions AI has done of business meetings. There are lots of mistakes. International learners trying to improve listening comprehension need accuracy so they can associate the sounds with the correct words.
I believe my English program gets them there accurately and fast, and should be part of the Career Accelerator Program.
Some skills are, or should be, equally useful for frontline workers as managers or team leaders. Following the lean management-Toyota Production System model, every employee is engaged in problem solving with their team every day. My course on Problem-Solving for Team Members and Leaders is exactly for that purpose. Tomorrow I have a live session with a client, most of them non-managers, on Facilitation Skills, one of four skills they have chosen. In truth, everyone on a team facilitates.
I'd love to see a career accelerator for hardware engineering.
Also can't wait to be able to build custom accelerators using courses from across the Udemy catalog. Genefa, I know that's in the works, but can it be ready, say, by August ;-)
We are trying for it @peter_dalmaris - I will go and check the latest to see if we are still on the path to the original dates
Any plans to add more common IT Careers, such as System Administrator/Engineer or Network Administrator/Engineer?
That's a great news and right step in creating career learning paths for learners.
Would love to see how Udemy is launching this feature for Instructors to create their own learning pathways,
Thanks for the update .
Concur with @peter_dalmaris , would be great to see such career accelerators for roles like "mechanical Design engineer" .
@GenefaMurph976 Great. It is so wonderful to see the positive developments
Thank you for that note @Col (Dr) Shabbar Shahid (Veteran). The sooner we get new capabilities out there, the sooner we can engage active customers and then learn more, iterating on what we've learned in the initial focus groups to create meaningful value for instructors and customers alike.
Are there plans to rotate the courses offered for each career accelerator periodically, or will they remain static? As it stands, each one only benefits 3 or fewer instructors - even though there may be many more great courses in each topic to choose from.
I guess it's the paradox of choice. Udemy wants to make it simple for someone to pick. Want to learn UX Design? Here's your career path.
Providing hundreds of choices would be counter-productive to the goal.
Regularly making sure the best choice is part of the program would be a good idea. But I guess they don't want to mess with it too much if it works.
Not suggesting they list hundreds, just that they mix them up once in awhile... or better yet, personalize them.
Hey @FrankKane great question - i think all options are on the table. Yes, as Scott says we want to make sure we optimize for the user and the instructors so this could be a place where we do periodically swap our or even add in some additional courses based on feedback we are seeing from users. Also, as Ryan mentions, the ideal state once we have the course bundling will be for instructors to create their own career accelerators that we can then also promote and feature.
That's good to hear @GenefaMurph976. It's understandable that Udemy wants learning pathways, students ask me this all the time (what order they should take my courses in). But there's a danger of discouragement if Udemy "picks winners" and that's it.
It seems to me that instructors should be able to create bundles and categorize them according to Udemy "accelerator" categories. Then the category can show "most popular bundles".
The difference, of course, being that the current career accelerators are courses collected from different instructors, and that would be much more challenging to manage at the instructor level. But many of us teach all the topics in a particular pathway so if at the least we could bundle and assign as a particular "pathway", and those could be promoted and featured, that would be fantastic.
Picking winners wouldn’t be anything new.
100% @TonyAlicea that is the intent and one of the use cases behind bundling