Furlough training - transferable skills

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

I am currently using some of my furlough time to complete some online excel training. I am also interested in upskilling in other reporting/ database management type tools that would broaden my skill set and assist me finding jobs in and out of my industry in case the worse happens post apocalypse.

What in demand, useful software packages are in vogue at the moment, eg, (in the old days) Cognos, Qlikview, Access etc. I.e what would be a useful skill to have even if `I don't have relevant industry experience.

FWIW I have good excel, Cognos skills and rusty SQL.

tia.

[softtop]

Download some RPA tools such as UiPath, plent of money to be made there.

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

hmmm, interesting, I'd have to think about how I can apply this to my work. At first it looks a little bit like a macro in a work book but it seems to have more power than that. thanks.

[mikef]

Maybe Tableau, they offer a free trial

Very popular where I work, and a highly marketable skill

[tr7v8]

Not a programming language but in quiet times I'm doing French with Duolingo. I will improve my French by the end of this!

[boxst]

Relative amount of demand for http://www.splunk.com with some free training https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/free-courses...

Or in that realm there is also Sumo and Elastic.

[CzechItOut]

You can get free Oracle certification in Autonomous Database Specialist here:

https://www.oracle.com/corporate/blog/free-certifi...

No idea how useful it is and the course is only three hours in content, so I don't it is massively indepth.

But something to look good on the old cv.

[Dynion Araf Uchaf]

thanks all, plenty to think about

[SausageBap]

In the same vein as mentioned above, Power BI is worth exploring with Azure Data Factory. There's plenty of free MS training courses and certifications about at the moment.