Behind every successful business is a support person who makes it all happen all day, every day: the office assistant. In a large corporation, it’s very likely there’s a team of them. Few business can provide products or services without solid behind-the-scenes support. While executives are directing, doctors are diagnosing, and salespeople are selling, somebody has to be organizing all the tasks and tools it takes to make those things happen. And that’s where office assistants come in.

As a broad category, online certifications can meet a variety of needs and hit quite a wide range of price points. PCDI Canada designed ours specifically to provide concentrated career skills training for a reasonable investment of time and tuition money. The courses can help boost specific skills sets for job-seekers who have high school diplomas and don’t wish to attend college, but they can also benefit those who have degrees and are working, but seeking higher wages or titles. Online certifications are available for every category of employment – vocational to administrative, full-time to freelance.

The time and cost of going to school to earn a degree scares many from their dreams of working with animals, but there is another option: vet assistant school! Training to become a vet assistant is quicker and more affordable than a veterinary degree and it still results in a career working with our furry and feathered friends.

When you need to understand business finance, a bookkeeping course may be much too basic to help you reach your goals. On the other hand, a degree from an accountancy school may be much more complicated than what you need and way too expensive.

If your goal is to better understand numbers, finance and accounting cycles, then an Accounting Basics Career Diploma may provide all the guidance you need. The diploma is a quick and affordable way for anyone to get started in career accounting for a large or small business.

If you’re thinking about taking an online course, chances are you have a career in mind that you’d like to work toward. Picking which school to study with may come down to whether or not they offer the program you need to head down your intended path. With that in mind, we thought we’d take a look at what jobs are trending in Canada right now, and it turns out we offer programs that match up with them quite well!