How to Start a Career in AI

This week we’re talking about using tech skills to build a business. That means starting from scratch and learning what you need to earn income. We will focus on artificial intelligence, cyber security, and tech consulting.

This Week’s Resources

• The Best CyberSecurity Certifications for 2024

• Ending Soon: Best Prices of the Season on Tech Courses

• How to Learn AI: Complete Guide

• HTML Interview Questions (And Answers)

• Want to Learn a New Skill? Ask Mentor

• New Job Opportunities in Tech (Hackr Job Board)

Where to Start Learning AI

The last few years launched a surge of interest in artificial intelligence. That includes an uptick in AI-related graduate applications and the debut of a plethora of consumer-facing products from OpenAI, Google, and Apple.

So how do you break into this industry?

I'll show you how to get started and, using user-submitted resources from the community right here at Hackr.io, I'll give you a roadmap to build an artificial intelligence career that goes beyond the everpresent generative AI.

Specific AI Courses

Whether you’re looking to build self-driving cars or enhance your existing business with a chatbot, you’ll want to take an AI course before you get started.

We evaluated dozens of artificial intelligence courses, and our full guide has a breakdown for our top choices.

But if you’re looking for an inexpensive online course to follow at your own pace, check out Artificial Intelligence A-Z on Udemy. It ranks high on our list, and we spotted a deep discount during this end-of-month sale.

With 15 hours of on-demand video and a bunch of downloadable resources, it’s a bestselling AI course. . . and more than a quarter of a million people have enrolled.

Start Consulting as a CyberSec Expert

If you want to start a consulting job, cybersecurity might be the way to go. Staff salaries for these positions are already high, and professional consultants can charge even more.

The tough part? Proving you have the skills for the job.

That’s when cybersec certifications can help.

Prefer to land a job as a full-time employee? These days, you’ll find tons of cyber security jobs on various job boards, perhaps named slightly differently like “information security analyst” or “data security consultant.”

Here are a few different career options you can choose from when seeking a career in cybersecurity:

• Information Security or Vulnerability Analyst

• Penetration Tester

• Security or Cybersecurity Administrator

• Cryptographer

• Chief Information Security Officer

• Vulnerability Assessor

• Incident Responder

• Source Code Auditor

Upskilling for Promotion

One of the best ways to earn a higher salary? Switching jobs.

It’s a well-known trend that job hoppers tend to get salary boosts of 10-20% with every switch, and learning a new skill opens up a variety of new job opportunities.

That’s one reason we rolled out Mentor, which helps you find the resources you need to learn skills and find jobs.

Tech Jobs this Week

Looking for your next opportunity? Here are the latest tech jobs from the hackr job board.

Highlights include:

• Reliability Engineer (Wilton, CT)

• Head of External and Digital Communication (Irvine, CA)

• Lean Engineer Coach/Trainer (Wilton, CT)

• Digital Banking Manager (Exton, PA)

Mastering Negotiation

Starting a business isn’t just about building something useful, you’ve also got to manage negotiations. That’s when it helps to take a course like this one from the University of Michigan.

• Course: Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills

• Duration: About 17 Hours

• Certificate: Yes

• Language: Taught in English, Available in 22 Languages

• Main Topics: Business negotiation, contract negotiation

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