Business and Professional 

Certificate Courses

Be a Certified Professional and Advance in Your Profession

Jacob's The eLearning Centre  proudly offers the most comprehensive collection of online continuing education courses from the world's best eLearning companies and authors. Through partnerships with respected online training corporations and institutions across the globe we provide self-study courses with open enrollment in nearly every subject imaginable.

 

 

Categories of Certificate Courses and Sample Courses

 

Business and Professional

 

1. Administrative Professional with Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Training

Course Objectives

After successfully completed the Administrative Professional with Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Training Program, the student will be able to achieve the following objectives:

1. Understand and be able to execute the essential  administrative skills, tasks and procedure, necessary for employment as an Administrative Professional in a commercial office setting, including, but not limited to:

  • Effective Communication and Language Usage

  • Business Correspondence

  • Planning Meetings and Travel

  • Records Management and Mail Handling

  • Leadership and Management

2. Understand and be able to execute the essential financial skills, tasks and procedure, necessary for employment as an Administrative Professional in a business office environment, including, but not limited to:

  • Accounts Payable

  • Accounts Receivable

  • Banking

  • Inventory Control and Ordering

3. Use the Microsoft Office suite of software office productivity products efficiently and proficiently. The programs include:

 

Microsoft Excel

Description: The Complete Guide to Excel coaches users how to generate spreadsheets from simple checkbooks to price sheets, market forecast and scenarios.

Objectives: On completion, users will be adept to:

  • Create a spreadsheet.

  • Create formulas with the Function Wizard or manually.

  • Audit equations and troubleshoot errors.

  • Analyze data by Sort, Filter, Subtotal, and PivotTables.

  • Format spreadsheets, graphs and lists for printing

Length: There are three levels of Excel: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. Each lesson has 6 modules. Each module can be accomplished within 30 minutes.

 

Microsoft Word

Description: The Complete Guide to Word coaches users how to generate documents from simple letterheads and envelopes to custom web pages.

Objectives: On completion, users will be able to:

  • Create a document.

  • Format fonts, paragraphs, bullets and tables

  • Use tables for on-line forms and webpage designs.

  • Automate mail merges

  • Share documents with a workgroup.

Length: There are three levels of Word: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. Each lesson has 6 modules. Each module can be completed in 30 minutes or less.

 

Microsoft PowerPoint

Description: The Complete Guide to PowerPoint provides examples of colorful, animated slideshows.

Objectives: On completion, users will be able to:

  • Create a slideshow.

  • Format fonts, paragraphs, bullets and text boxes

  • Use custom animation, slide transitions and effects.

  • Use graphics, sound and on-screen navigation.

  • Prepare a slide show for live presentations and kiosk demonstrations.

Length: There are two levels of PowerPoint: Beginning and Advanced. Each lesson has 6 modules. A module can be completed in 30 minutes or less.

Microsoft Outlook

Description: The Complete Guide to Outlook teaches users how to set up and use email, an electronic calendar, contacts, tasks, and journal entries effectively. Security, administration and backups are also demonstrated.

Objectives: On completion, users will be able to:

  • Use email, Contacts, and work with attachments safely.

  • Organize the Inbox and filter junk mail.

  • Schedule meetings, recurring appointments, and tasks

  • Analyze Outlook data in Microsoft Excel or AccessLength: There are three levels of Outlook: Email, Calendar, and Administration. Each lesson has 6 modules. A module can be completed in 30 minutes or less.

Microsoft Access

Description: The Complete Guide to Access teaches users how to create database tables, forms, queries and reports. The focus is on optimizing the databases for efficient data entry and generating comprehensive reports.
Course Objectives: On completion, users will be able to:

  • Create tables, forms and reports.

  • Use queries to find, filter, update and calculate.

  • Create forms that handle data automatically

  • Optimize the database for easy navigation, and data input.

Length: There are three levels of Access: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. Each lesson has 5 modules. Each module can be completed in 30 minutes or less

 

 

2. Administrative Professional with Microsoft Office Specialist

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of the Administrative Professional with Microsoft Office Specialist Program, the student should:

  • Understand and be able to perform the basic administrative skills, tasks and processes, required for employment as an Administrative Professional in a business office environment, including, but not limited to:
    • Effective Communication and Language Usage
    • Business Correspondence
    • Planning Meetings and Travel
    • Records Management and Mail Handling
    • Leadership and Management
       
  • Understand and be able to perform the basic financial skills, tasks and processes, required for employment as an Administrative Professional in a business office environment, including, but not limited to:
     
    • Accounts Payable
    • Accounts Receivable
    • Banking
    • Inventory Control and Ordering
     
  • Use the Microsoft Office suite of software office productivity products effectively and knowledgeably. The programs include:
     
    • Word (word processing program)
    • Excel (spreadsheet program)
    • PowerPoint (presentation software)
    • Access (database management software)
    • Outlook (scheduling and email program)

 

3. Bookkeeping the Easy Way with Quickbooks

Bookkeeping the Easy Way With Quickbooks presents the principles of bookkeeping/accounting using the concept of double-entry bookkeeping. This cumulative web-based learning experience progresses lesson by lesson with assistance from expert instructors to prepare students for entry-level positions in this in-demand occupation.

A good grasp of the basic bookkeeping processes is critical to developing and controlling activities in commerce. This program is designed for students who are interested in gaining knowledge of basic bookkeeping practices in planning a more profitable future or seeking a new career.

The Quickbooks training portion is designed specifically to allow the student to get the most out of your Quickbooks software. Keep track of your payables and receivables. Plan budgets and improve accounting today.

This course presents a simplified step-by-step approach to comprehending bookkeeping/accounting concepts and practices. Students will be posed with questions and problems, as well as analytical situations designed to explain not only the "how" but also the "why" of bookkeeping practices. These situations relate book learning to the business world. This bookkeeping program will result in a better understanding of legal obligations and a greater awareness of the private enterprise system.

A separate Quickbooks module is included with this program

 

 

4. Business Marketing Design

Are you excited about embarking on a career designing marketing for businesses? This is an internationally recognized Business Marketing Design online course that imparts the essential technical and aesthetic skills necessary for design in a commercial environment.

You'll learn the in-demand software programs that a marketing designer needs to know including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Microsoft Powerpoint. You'll prepare digital images, illustrations, and presentations, learning how to address the challenges of color, typography, composition, and visual identity design.

Hands-on projects focus on essential skills and provide experience in business-focused design scenarios. Class assignments include digital imaging and retouching, icons and illustrations, presentation graphics, color, typography, and composition studies, print and display advertising design, and brand identity development.

 

 

 5. Certified Bookkeeper

This web-based program for professional bookkeepers provides the route to national certification with the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers (AIPB). The AIPB certification is a high professional standard and the only national standard for bookkeepers. Becoming a Certified Bookkeeper (CB) can boost earning potential, improve professional status, and present a decisive edge in any employment market. This program was created by the AIPB to prepare experienced bookkeepers for the certification examination at any Prometric Test Center. Certified Bookkeepers (CB's) are to bookkeeping what CPA's are to accounting: the elite of the profession.

 

 

 6. Certified Global Business Professional

The North American Small Business International Trade Educators Association (NASBITE) Certified Global Business Professional Credential (CGBP) is a standard for competency in global commerce. The CGBP designation is an indication of a person's competency to conduct international business including Global Business Management, Global Marketing, Supply Chain Management, and Trade Finance. For candidates experienced in international trade, the certification attests to that knowledge. For candidates just beginning, it establishes a professional development goal to ensure a full understanding of the profession. For companies, it assures that employees are able to practice global business at the professional level required in today's competitive environment.

This online preparatory program for the examination leading to the Certified Global Business Professional Credential is a prestigious acknowledgement of international business expertise.

 

 

7. Certified Wedding Planner

Certified Wedding Planning Certificate Course is ideal for anyone wanting to be qualified as a professional wedding planner without any further delay. This comprehensive course comprises learning everything a wannabe wedding planner is required to know to be in the business, from preparing contracts to following appropriate etiquette, selection of flowers, music, the scheduling on the day of services, service marketing, ethical and professional business practices, acquiring and retaining trade secrets and industry specific applications. Whether you plan on working part-time, planning only a few weddings a year, or a full-time career, this course will give you all the tools necessary to work as a professional wedding planner or start your wedding planning business.

 

The assignments in the course prepare you for starting a business in the wedding industry. Therefore, most assignments are useful and essential tools that you will utilize in your business such as contracts, business packages, profiling templates for new clients and tools for designing a signature wedding such as fabric boards, design displays and presentation tools. Textbooks include templates and many examples for you to utilize in order to develop your own, such as contracts and service packages. There are also over 50 documents in the on-line library you can download as templates for your bridal clients.

 

This program covers many areas, such as Budgeting, Project Management, Vendors & Contracts, Wedding Etiquette, Wedding Customs and Traditions from over 15 different cultures worldwide, Wedding Gown Styles & Veils including the seasons top designers and videos of the most recent Truck (Fashion) Shows, Wedding Event Planning, Writing your Business Plan, Signature Wedding Design, Invitations, Public Relations, Wedding Music Selections, Sales & Marketing, Pre and Post Wedding Parties, How to expand your business, Relationship Education as well as Production and Operations Management.

 

To address the demands of the industry this program is created for real-world application including experiential learning. This includes role-playing, vignettes and other ways to practice for actual business objectives or work settings in the day-to-day of wedding planning.

 

Certified Wedding Planner students can email instructors as often as they need to during the course and schedule phone meetings to discuss assignments if needed. Online students also have access to other students in the course through the course online message boards. Here, students find additional resources, support and networking with others in their area and throughout the WORLD. Many online students utilize this network even after graduation.

 

Because the wedding planner plays such an integral role in the planning of a couple's most important day, there is much to learn in the way of planning, budgets, working with vendors, contracts, revenue channels, not to mention keeping up with the latest trends in bridal fashion, color choices and wedding design.

 

Other Courses

 Chartered Tax Professional

 Chartered Tax Professional for California Residents

 Corporate Governance and Ethics

eBusiness

 Emergency Management Training

 English as a Second Language

Entrepreneurship: Start-Up and Business Owner Management

 Export Management Certificate Program (2008)

 Fitness Business Management

 Freight Broker /Freight Agent

Grant Writing

Help Desk Analyst Tier 1 Support Specialist

Leadership and Legacy

Lean Mastery

 Management for IT Professionals

 Management Training

Mediation and Dispute Resolution

Microsoft Access 2007

Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Training (MCAS)

Microsoft Excel 2007

 Microsoft Office Specialist

Microsoft Outlook 2007

 Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

 Microsoft Vista Business

 Microsoft Word 2007

Non-Profit Management

 Nutrition for Optimal Health, Wellness, and Sports

 Paralegal

 Pay Per Click Marketing

Payroll Practice and Management

 Personal Financial Planning

Personal Training and Group Exercise Training for Older Adults

 Principles of Private Investigation

 Project Management

Purchasing & Supply Chain Management

Records Management

Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Optimization

Six Sigma Black Belt

 Six Sigma, Greenbelt

Technical Writing

Travel Agent Training

 Understanding Earned Value Management

 

 

 

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