What’s the difference between upskilling and reskilling?

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Upskilling refers to learning new skills to improve your performance – and possibilities – in your current career. It means developing advanced or additional skills to make you more effective and efficient in your present job. As a result, you’ll be a keeper. Let’s say you’re an IT professional in an organisation facing cybersecurity threats. In this case, upskilling through Charles Sturt University’s Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security will help you add value in your current role – and set you up for future career opportunities. Quickly. Four online subjects will give you the grad cert. Furthermore, you may be eligible for credit for some subjects thanks to your existing experience or qualifications. Reskilling refers to learning a new set of skills in order to move into a completely new occupation. Here you’re talking retraining for a different job. And that’s going to be a necessity if the tasks or responsibilities in your current job become outdated due to advances in technology. An example. If you are a displaced accounting clerk you could use Charles Sturt’s Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science to reskill as a data analyst. First you could enrol in a single subject over summer – ITC556 Database Systems. This would help you get a jump start on your new qualification. Then within just a few months you could be on your way to a whole new – secure – career.

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