It's never too late to change your specialty: what is professional retraining

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If a person has made a mistake in choosing a profession or wants to expand his specialization, he can undergo professional retraining. According to statistics from SuperJob, 59% of Russians have radically changed their field of activity, which means that our recommendations for retraining will be useful to many.

Who needs professional retraining?
For people who want to stay in one industry but expand their skills
For example, an SMM manager wants to become an Internet marketer. To do this, he needs to take special courses to study SEO, contextual advertising, UX design and fill in the gaps in knowledge.

For workers who are not in their specialty and need knowledge or certification for career development
Alexey graduated from the Faculty of Law, but got a job in the tax service. To become a manager, he needs to get a specialized education in "Taxes and Taxation".

For a specialist who wants to change his/her field of activity
Ivan loved mythology and historical facts since social media marketing service childhood, so he went to study to become a history teacher. After a couple of years, he realized that it was hard for him to work with children and he was burnt out. So he began to study front-end development and a year later got a job in an IT organization.


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Types of professional retraining
Courses . They help to master a profession from scratch or study a separate part of it. Training programs can be online and offline, for beginners and experienced specialists.

The Russia — Land of Opportunities platform hosts over 80 free online courses that can help you improve your professional and cross-professional competencies. For example, customer focus, communication skills, or service design.