Maybe you can get by in Word and freeze at a spreadsheet. This course is built to close that gap. Excel, Word and PowerPoint, taught from the start, in about the time a good box set takes.
Plenty of office jobs put you in front of a computer before they hire you. This covers the skills those tests ask for, across all three programs.
You do the job fine and dread the spreadsheet part. Fifteen hours is a short way to stop working around it and start using it.
Excel, Word and PowerPoint in one course. Most office work sits in those three, and knowing all of them beats knowing one well.
Office work is the widest door in the job market, and the software is the thing standing in it. The work is easy to picture. A morning of records, a report tidied up, and the slides ready before the meeting.
Getting information in accurately and fast. The Excel topic is the whole job.
Keeping documents right and findable. Word skills carry most of this one.
Running someone else's week. Confidence across the programs is what makes you trusted with it.
The person who sorts the small software problems. Knowing three programs well is where that starts.
Keeping the office running on its software, with the spreadsheets and slides to match.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Three topics, one for each program.
Here is what stands out in this course.
The college points this squarely at the admin tests that come up in job applications. That is a narrow, useful target.
About 15 hours. Short enough to finish before an interview, and you still have 6 months of access to go back over it.
Arranging media, tables and illustrations, and applying animation to slides. Presentation work is the part people quietly avoid.
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Issued by the college once you finish the course.
The course carries accreditation with the CPD Standards Office, so you earn CPD credits on completion.
A SEEK Pass link arrives in your learning platform with your certificate, so you can share it on your SEEK profile.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay upfront in one payment, or take the flexible weekly plan from $29 a week.
Work through the topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. No exams at any point.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, your CPD credits and a SEEK Pass link to share.
None needed. All three topics start from the beginning. It suits someone who has never opened Excel.
Around 15 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. Most people fit it around a working week.
From $29 a week on a flexible plan. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the current options.
For admin and office roles, this covers the ground those jobs and their entry tests ask for. If you want pivot tables and analysis work, the college runs Excel courses by stage and this is the right way into them.
There are none, ever. You work through the topics at your own pace, with tutor support behind you by phone and email in business hours.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not accredited by NZQA, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For office work, employers care whether you can do the task in front of you.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right for you, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand. It has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year.
Courses run fully online at your own pace, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Tutors are named on the course page with their own backgrounds. Career coaching comes with your enrolment, including CV help, interview preparation and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the interview where they sit you at a computer and you already know what to click.