Individual Learning

You want to build or strengthen practical skills that can help you achieve your next goal – advance in your current job, prepare for a new job or field, or attain certification for better pay and opportunities. UMKC TalentLink can help you develop on your professional path.

We offer courses, certificate programs, and workshops in-person and online. Let’s get started.

Develop Your Skills With Online Courses

UMKC TalentLink and ed2go offer online courses where you can develop practical skills in the short-term to achieve long-term goals. Gain a new skill in 6 weeks through instructor-moderated courses or self-guided courses.

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Online Career Training Programs

UMKC TalentLink and ed2go offer online Career Training Programs help you to develop in-demand skills and practical knowledge for professional-level positions in a wide variety of fields.

  • Self-guidedtraining gives you flexibility to complete training.
  • Open enrollment means you start when you want and finish at your own pace.
  • Complete training in 3-6 months. Online course access varies per program.
  • Many Career Training Programs prepare you for a certification exam.
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Featured Courses

A to Z Grant Writing

A to Z Grant Writing

Get the hands-on experience and knowledge needed to successfully begin the grant writing process for projects in need of funding.

Open Enrollment

A to Z Grant Writing II

A to Z Grant Writing II – Beyond the Basics

Refine your grant writing expertise as you learn how to research funding sources, create a fundraising plan, and write winning grant proposals to obtain funding.

Open Enrollment

Payroll Manager

Become A Payroll Manager

Train online to become a payroll manager, prepare to take the Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC) exam, and receive management training.

Open Enrollment

Certified Life Coach

Certified Professional Life Coach (Exam Included)

This certification course teaches the critical skills needed to establish a successful business as a certified life coach.

Open Enrollment

winning rfp responses

Winning RFP Responses

Want to increase revenue through contracts? Develop the skills needed to write winning RFP responses and bid on competitive contracts to increase business revenues.

OPEN ENROLLMENT

Learn Spanish for medical professional to better communicate with public. Course available through UMKC TalentLink and ed2go.

Spanish For Medical Professionals

Prepare for any situation by bridging the communication gap between you, patients, and family members. Learn basic medical phrases to help you better communicate in Spanish.

Open Enrollment

Using laptop computer for online video conference call learning and communicating in sign language. Learn sign language through ed2go and UMKC TalentLink.

Discover Sign Language

Discover Sign Language will teach you how to sign basic phrases and complete sentences, incorporate facial expressions, learn lip reading, and more.

Open enrollment

nonprofit manager training from UMKC TalentLInk

Nonprofit Manager Training

New and aspiring nonprofit managers and leaders, develop key skills, knowledge, and strategies for success in this online course.

Open Enrollment

Master Public Speaking course available through UMKC TalentLink

Master Public Speaking

Become an effective public speaker by overcoming barriers and fear. Discover how to talk confidently and persuasively to both large and small groups on the job or in any social setting.

Open Enrollment

This Full Stack Developer online course will prepare you for your first job in the web development field. Start anytime. Register through UMKC TalentLink.

Become A Full Stack Software Developer

This Full Stack Developer online training course will prepare you for your first job in the web development field. Start anytime.

Open Enrollment

UMKC TalentLink offers courses to prepare for CompTIA A+ certification

Prepare for the CompTIA A+ Certification Exam 

Our online course prepares you for A+ certification exams 220-1001 and 220-1002. Launch your career as an associate-level IT professional.

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UMKC TalentLink offers courses to prepare for CompTIA certification

CompTIA™ Security+ Certification Training (Voucher Included)

The Security+ training course will assist you in preparing for the CompTIA Security+ certification SY0-601 exam through comprehensive material that covers the key objectives and fundamentals to perform core security functions.

Open Enrollment

Online Healthcare Skills Training Through MedCerts

UMKC TalentLink and MedCerts have partnered to offer more than thirty high-quality certification programs in the in-demand healthcare industry. Explore programs that are the most popular and can prepare you for the highest-paying healthcare roles.

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