Digital Skills Lab

Preparing for and attaining an Industry Recognized Credential (IRC) validates your technical skills and expertise, grows your career, impresses prospective employers, and helps you stand out from the crowd.

Through UC's Digital Skills Lab, you can earn an Industry Recognized Credential in a wide range of technical fields, from essential digital skill development to mastery of complex cloud environments.

No matter what your academic program, learning digital skills for the future of work will help you progress rapidly in your career.

The University of Cincinnati has partnered with IBM to offer practitioner-level industry recognized credentials in a variety of technology fields. Students do not need to have a technology or computing background to participate in these workshops.

The Virtual Apprenticeship is open to and free for all University of Cincinnati students, especially UC co-op students desiring to complete the apprenticeship for their EEP experience. The program does not require prior knowledge of information technology. Students who complete the program will receive an Industry Recognized Credential endorsed by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The apprenticeship is self-directed with instructors and mentors through online learning and is flexible to accommodate student schedules. Weekly virtual meetings will occur with other students, mentors and instructors.

UC offers online courses for students to become certified in the Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Animate.

This experience is open to all UC students and requires some basic knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite; students with little to no experience in Adobe should try LinkedIn Learning first.

Classes meet online and biweekly, with instructor-led tutorials and demonstrations, complemented with weekly interactive critiques of projects that demonstrate application of knowledge.

In the Salesforce Fundamentals for Business Administration course, you will dive into Salesforce and learn everything you need to get started in Salesforce as a Business User. You will also earn a "Business Administration Specialist" Superbadge which provides evidence that you can "brighten up a new business unit" with multiple Salesforce tools that a team needs to succeed.