Goodwill, Facebook Elevate, Coursera Team Up on Social Media Marketing Education
A grant from the social network will enable Goodwill to distribute 6,000 scholarships
Goodwill will offer holistic support to Black learners and provide eligible participants with services such as career planning and résumé building
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Goodwill Industries International, Facebook Elevate and Coursera joined forces on an initiative to bring social media marketing skills to job seekers.
Goodwill® Partners With Facebook Elevate And Coursera For Social Media Marketing Training
Initiative will help 6,000 job seekers gain vital new skills and earn a professional certificate.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., April 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ As the pandemic accelerates a shift in the workforce toward positions that require digital skills, Goodwill, Facebook Elevate and Coursera are launching a new initiative to help job seekers master social media marketing skills. This vital partnership will help thousands of job seekers gain skills to prepare for career transitions.
While many social media marketing roles require technical training previously learned through advanced degree programs, Facebook Elevate, along with Coursera, a global leader in online learning, launched a five-course program designed for learners with no prior industry experience to earn a Social Media Marketing Professional Certificate. This self-paced online prog
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Goodwill Industries International and Accenture are launching a virtual reality tool that allows job seekers with criminal backgrounds to practice their interviewing skills, interact with human resource professionals and hear from workers who have found employment after incarceration, the organizations announced April 7.
Through the project, called Project Overcome, job seekers will learn to “speak comfortably about their incarceration” and use up-to-date technologies.
Ten nonprofit Goodwill organizations around the U.S. will implement the project.
Dive Insight:
A handful of stakeholders are attempting to address the difficulties job seekers with criminal backgrounds face. State and local governments are enacting legislation that implements stronger protections for such job seekers. Illinois, for instance, recently passed a law that forbids employers from taking adverse actions against job seekers and workers based on past criminal activity, unless certain exce