Empower your Workforce with Ohio TechCred
The State of Ohio provides businesses an excellent opportunity to empower their workforce with Ohio TechCred program.
What is Ohio TechCred Program
TechCred assists Ohioans to learn new skills and helps employers create a stronger workforce with much needed skills in a technology-infused economy.
Employers can prepare current and future employees for the technology jobs Ohio needs.
Most of these trainings can be completed online. These technology-focused credentials should be short-term and Industry recognized.
Employers can get reimbursements up to $2,000 per credential and will be eligible to receive up to $30,000 per funding round.
What’s New to Ohio TechCred?
Employers no longer need to identify specific individuals in an application.
Instead, employers will list the number of current or future employees who will earn each credential.
Employees can also now earn multiple credentials each application period!
Definition of Credential as applied to your workforce
A credential can include a Certificate or a Certification.
Certificate: On successful completion of a training, course, or series of courses, an individual will earn a certificate.
Certification: An individual can earn a certification by passing a standardized assessment that recognizes an individual’s knowledge, skill, or competency in a particular technical specialty.
Credential Eligibility
Employers enrolling for TechCred must select which credential their employee is pursuing.
To be considered eligible, credentials must meet all three criteria, which includes:
- They must be industry-recognized.
- They must be technology-focused .
- They must be short-term. Credentials must be certificates or certifications able to be completed in less than one calendar year in programs that are fewer than 900 clock hours or thirty (30) credit hours.
How Ohio Computer Academy can help in TechCred
Ohio Computer Academy is a premier IT training organization. We have years of experience in providing training in variety of Information Technology(IT) courses. All courses are hands-on, Instructor led and provide a good learning experience to the participants.
We provide training in the following TechCred courses:
- Tableau Desktop III: Advanced
- Tableau Introduction
- Intermediate Tableau SkillSet
- Introduction to Microsoft Azure for IT Professionals
- AWS Certification
- DevOps Foundation
- R, SQL, Tableau
- Developing Web Applications Using Angular JS
- Python Basics
- Power BI – Dashboard in a Day
- Introduction to SQL Databases
- And Many more
Please visit Courses section on our website to get the list of all the courses. If you require a course which you do not see in our list, please contact us and we will create a course for you. Visit our Corporate Training section to understand our model.
How businesses can get started with TechCred Program
If you are interested in joining the Ohio TechCred program, follow the easy steps to get started:
- Identify skills, needs and employees
- Partner with a credential provider such as Ohio Computer Academy
- Apply online
- Enroll employees in the program
- Upload proof of credential completion
- Receive reimbursement
To learn more or enroll, please contact us at hello@ohiocomputeracademy.com or call us at 614-927-0647
About the Author
Chandraish Sinha has 20+ years of experience in Information Technology. He is an accomplished author and has published 11 books covering Business Intelligence related topics such as, Tableau,Power BI, and Qlik. Checkout his Amazon Author profile.
His latest book Excel Basics to Advanced covers all the aspects of MS Excel and provides exercises for self-learning.
Similarly, his recent book, Dashboarding with Tableau, covers all the features in Tableau and includes exercises for self-learning.
He has implemented IT solutions in different domains viz. Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Telecom, Financial and Retail.
He blogs regularly on various IT topics. Check them out in the links given below: