Jump to content
  • entries
    292
  • comments
    368
  • views
    59730

Free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft


antonch

539 views

 Share

This is copy-paste from the original article

9780735693616f We’re thrilled to offer another free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft, by Katherine Murray. The ebook contains eight chapters and an appendix describing how you can assess and build your technology-based job skills.

To give you a sense of the ebook’s content, here is its Foreword, by Microsoft Learning’s Lutz Ziob:

Foreword

In the midst of a struggling economy, our fast-changing, knowledge-based economy has created unprecedented challenges for employers and workers alike. Employers increasingly need workers with a broad range of information technology (IT) skills. These skills will become even more important as we continue to retool major sectors of our economy, such as healthcare, transportation and energy. By 2014, more than three-quarters of all jobs in the United States will require some level of computing or technology skills, and the vast majority of newly created jobs will require post-secondary education or training. To meet this demand, students need a solid foundation in science, technology, engineering, math, and design, as well as in related disciplines such as computer science. And this means that workforce training systems need to be improved and expanded to meet the needs of all workers—the underemployed, the unemployed, and students who need better access to the requisite skills. Everyone entering or already in the workforce should have access to the resources they need to become lifelong learners who can adapt to an ever-changing workplace.

Technology is only one piece of the puzzle, but it has a pivotal role to play in these efforts. It can offer students, workers, and employers the training tools they need, and it can help to quickly and efficiently expand access to educational resources. IT also helps people develop other essential 21st-century skills such as collaboration and teamwork, finding and interpreting information, and using data to aid in decision making.

In this book, students will find a wealth of Microsoft resources they can

use to identify the technology skills they need, and gather knowledge and experience to help them take charge of their careers. Here at Microsoft, we care about students’ career success and hope these resources will open doors to learning that will lead them to better opportunities and a deeper understanding of the way technology continues to change and improve the ways people work—both here in the U.S. and around the world.

Lutz Ziob

Microsoft Learning General Manager

You can download the ebook in XPS format here and in PDF format here.

We hope that you find this material useful. Please leave us a comment and let us know!

 Share

1 Comment


Recommended Comments

Guest
Add a comment...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...