Study from anywhere with an internet connection
Taking a distance course lets you enrich your CV and improve your chances in the job market. In recent years, as the internet became universal, the "open course" category has taken advantage of the digital format to bring knowledge on the widest range of subjects to practically everywhere.
Studying online has several benefits — for one, there are places that offer free online courses. You simply enrol and start studying from anywhere with an internet connection.
Want to improve your CV? Here are some platforms and their courses.
Fundação Bradesco
Its virtual school is an e-learning portal offering free, entirely online courses across a range of fields. The open courses offered by Fundação Bradesco allow independent study and also issue certificates showing the hours and content covered.
Certificates issued by the Escola Virtual can have their authenticity checked digitally through the institution's own website. Now let us look at some of the courses Fundação Bradesco runs.
Business Strategy, alongside the exercises set, provides study material so students understand what management is and how important strategy is to creating competitive advantage for a product or service.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation introduces important ideas about the entrepreneurial mindset, along with the main features of a business plan.
Sebrae
Sebrae is an agency for training and development, created to support small businesses across Brazil. Focused on encouraging entrepreneurship and the sustainable development of small businesses, it works in entrepreneurial education and other areas.
Negotiating well matters in any company. Sebrae's negotiation course presents strategies for improving your negotiations with employees, clients and suppliers.
With the business analysis: market research course you can learn to design and run market research to gain the knowledge you need before making decisions about your company.
Unova Cursos
A free course portal built on the belief that knowledge can bring numerous benefits to a professional career. With the distance format, you can learn something new wherever you are.
On this portal, though, you study first, and if you like the course and want the certificate you can buy it for R$29.90.
One of the portal's courses is customer service and sales, which covers: the pillars of customer service, supply and demand, service quality in sales, market segmentation, market research, value propositions and more.
The sales management course covers material such as: competition and competitiveness, sales planning, team training, performance indicators, target setting, results analysis, sales techniques, recruiting and selecting salespeople, team analysis and more.
Prime Cursos
A company specialising in distance learning with a valid certificate of completion. The course content is entirely free, and once you have finished all the lessons you can request an assessment to test your knowledge of the subject. If you pass, you can request the certificate of completion if you want one.
They do charge an administrative fee of R$54.90 plus postage for a printed certificate, and R$49.90 for a digital one, where the document is released on the site for printing once payment is confirmed.
Sales techniques is the ideal course for anyone who works, or wants to work, in sales — in retail generally, in products or services, for traders, freelancers, sales representatives, resellers and so on.
The direct sales course is ideal for anyone who works, or wants to work, in sales, whether of products or services: traders, freelancers, sales representatives and resellers.
Kultivi
An edtech company that produces and distributes educational content free of charge to contribute to Brazilians' personal and professional development. Kultivi's mission is always to give users a free way to access quality content and courses.
The Entrepreneurship and Social Impact course was created to help social entrepreneurs already working on a transformative project in its early stages, and also those who are not, but who have an idea and a wish to change the world without knowing how to start.
Coaching for Entrepreneurs is a course aimed at the entrepreneur's behavioural development, to help them think about their business from a different angle. Coaching is a process of construction, which means thinking through and developing aspects such as focus, planning, action, continuous improvement and results.
After completing the final assessment you can print the certificate of completion. Some courses have no final assessment; in those cases, certificates of participation are issued.
From time to time, set aside some time and take courses that add to your field, and keep growing.
Happy learning!