Summary
Liberal Arts and Humanities graduates are recruited by tech companies in different departments like customer service, sales and marketing, product design, content, PR and human resource
Mastering tech skills like coding, data visualisation, tech writing, UI and UX designing can enhance your chances of entering the tech sector
The fine line dividing Technology and Humanities is fast disappearing as technology companies now recruit people from backgrounds in Literature, Language, Philosophy, History or Psychology for online research, knowledge enhancement and content generation. If you’re a student of Arts, doing some tech-related courses is likely to increase your chances of getting a job in the tech sector.
How Humanities students can go into the tech sector
Liberal Arts and Humanities graduates are recruited by tech companies in different departments like customer service, sales and marketing, product design, content, PR and human resource. These people are then trained in essential tech skills required to work at a tech company.
If you already know some of these skills, you’re likely to stay ahead in the recruitment race during the interview process. In such situations, online courses can add to your repertoire by introducing new skills.
Some online courses that could help Humanities students to step into the tech sector:
The Complete Coding for Beginners Course — by Udemy
One of the basic technologies today is coding. This 16-hour basic course offers 16 hours of coding-related video content. By covering the basics of coding, the course describes in detail the essential commands as well as the trial-and-error methods used in coding and programming. It’ll teach you how to break down a coding project into smaller texts. Loaded with activities and projects, this course teaches you to create decision algorithms and code with Python 3. After its completion, you will be able to code beginners-level applications.
Visualization for Data Journalism — by Coursera
Journalism is all about information processed from huge chunks of data. But it must be difficult to work with massive piles of data and arrange them. To avoid those situations a data visualisation course can come to your aid. This course offered by the University of Illinois will help you analyse and visualise data. It’ll also help you learn how to create a report from data. This 18-hour course assumes that you have basic coding knowledge, preferably Python.
Basic Certificate in Technical Writing — by the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Technical writing or content writing jobs are common in the technical field. While generating content may be easier, technical writing comes with its additional dos and don’ts. If you are bent towards a technical writing job, then this 90-hour course from University of Wisconsin can solve your problem. Here you will learn things like how to analyse technical data, plan content, and edit and analyse content. Doing the course will enhance your technical language and communication skills.
Google Analytics — by Google
Google Analytics is a powerful data and audience analysis tool that can be mastered if you enrol yourself in Google Analytics Academy. Here you will learn several courses depending on your level of interest. Beginners, advanced, superior for business, Google Analytics 360, Data Studio and Tag Manager Fundamentals are some of the courses that you can do under Google Analytics to enhance your employability in the tech sector.
Sketch Course UI Design (User Interface Design) — by Skillshare
You need codes to build an app. But an app is more than coding — you also need to create its design elements. Sketch is an application widely used in the field of UI and UX design. This eight-hour course offers you the basic modules on application design, how to use Sketch, and colours, icons and elements placement. It also introduces you to a working prototype to create and design your own applications. After teaching the necessary theoretical concepts, the course will help you design a complete project in Mobile First scheme.
Last updated on 19 May 2022
