Professional development is a significant investment—of time, money, and trust in an educational platform or system. Picking the right certification for your career, goals, and field should be paramount. 

New Horizons is here to help. In this guide, our experts break down the ten best project management certifications, give you a few tips for preparing for a course, and explain why certification could be the right move for your career. 

Today’s volatile, complex, and uncertain economic environment has flattened traditional corporate hierarchies. Businesses are placing increasing value on employees who can take the initiative to make pivotal decisions that align with corporate strategy. More than ever, companies are expanding traditional C-Suite leadership training to ensure more employees have the leadership, technical and interpersonal skills to help them succeed

New Horizons Ireland, the leading IT learning provider in Ireland, is proud to announce the official expansion into the United Kingdom market. The first step in this expansion is with a new office location in Slough which will expand and enhance New Horizons’ ability to support organisations across the United Kingdom.

There is no such thing as someone born to be a leader. Everyone can learn how to be a better leader and apply the concepts daily. A portion of natural ability can of course help, but the development of soft skills is extremely necessary for today’s work environment. Leadership talents are increasingly in demand and are essential to attract more creativity to the workplace.

After a challenging 2020, we cannot say that we are facing a less traumatic start in 2021. Besides the economic downturns all over the world, the tech sector still a promising one. Particularly in Ireland, it is an area which still hiring and even opening more positions. Working from home forced some companies to face digital transformation seriously and invest in technology to enable their employees to work from anywhere.

One of the trends that we have been observing since a massive part of the workforce worldwide adopted work from home is the necessity of business writing brush up. In the beginning, companies moved massively to apps like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and others to accommodate their communication needs. Then it came to the “zoom fatigue” as some teams were expending most of their working hours attending online meetings. To avoid that more emails are being sent, consequently, people are again exploring writing communication.

We like it or not, online learning will be our main option for longer than we expected. For some fields, like IT professionals, for instance, even before the pandemic, it was a common way of upskilling and part of their daily routine. Leaving the predictions behind, the reality is that we can improve our learning experience with simple techniques.

ITIL has become the standard in IT Service Management. It is a framework that helps organisations all over the world to offer their services with quality and efficiency. Under the new circumstances that the society is facing during the 2020 pandemic, ITIL is reaching even more popularity as a helpful framework to help companies to meet client’s demands and achieve digital transformation faster.