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General Assembly provides the necessary tech skills, career advice, and networking opportunities to prepare individuals for careers in coding, data, or UX design. With courses lasting as little as three months and requiring no previous experience, General Assembly has graduated over 40,000 students worldwide since 2011.
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Be your Best Self: How to Boost Self-Awareness
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” ― Lao Tzu Self-awareness has become a hot topic as of late, and for good reason! Self-awareness and mindfulness of ones inner qualities are the keys to building a successful career, connected relationships, and an overall happy life. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the what, why, and how of self-awareness. During the course of the workshop, a number...
Introduction to Data Science: Demystified
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
In the last couple of years, the term data science is increasingly used to describe advanced analytical methods that can extract business value from data. While many of these methods are decades old, have solid foundations in the fields of statistics and computer science (e.g. machine learning, data visualization) and can unarguably provide tremendous business value, there is a fair amount of hype, abuse of terms (especially related to “big data”)...
Getting Started With Angular.JS
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Javascript frameworks are incredibly popular these days, and sometimes it seems like there’s a new one to learn every week. AngularJS has been around for years and is a great place to start if you want to build rich, interactive client-side web apps. At this workshop we’ll teach you the AngularJS fundamentals before diving into live coding and exercises to get you up and running with Angular. This is a beginner focused workshop that will teach...
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Public Relations 101
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, startup, small business, or just looking to up your media skills, this class will help you understand the fundamentals of public relations. You will learn how to use resources and skills to reach out to journalists for the optimal chance of getting media coverage for yourself or your business. You will also learn about what it means to run a PR campaign, what tactics are best, and what angles are most likely...
Getting Started with React.js
Facebook's React JS might be the hottest Javascript library for building dynamic web applications. With a large community and support for mobile applications with React Native, it's a great tool for both beginners and experts to build awesome user experiences. This class will introduce you to the core concepts of using React and the React eco-system along with the latest Javascript ES6 and ES7 features. Takeaways Learn the basics of React...
Introduction to Javascript
Join us for this workshop on the JavaScript programming language aimed at beginners with little or no prior experience. This workshop provides an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and jQuery fundamentals needed to create rich, professional, and relevant web applications. Attendees will receive a hands-on approach in learning JavaScript's relationship to HTML and CSS. Takeaways Understand the role of the web browser and where...
Introduction to Photoshop
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Photoshop is the industry standard photo image editing software for print and digital output. In this hands-on introductory workshop, we will walk through Photoshop's basic capabilities and use tools and techniques to edit images and create visual design mock-ups - no design experience required! This workshop will help students visualise products and designs using Photoshop and learn some basic visual design tips. Content: Introduction to raster...
Crafting Your Career Path
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
This workshop is for young women looking to design a fulfilling and purpose-driven career path for themselves. The workshop includes six modules that build upon each other to give young women the tools they need to discover their strengths, make well-informed career decisions and build intentional habits grounded in self-awareness that will lead them to success, both personally and professionally. Attendees will be able to confidently identify...
Moving From Excel to R: Introduction to R
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
About This Workshop Unlock data-driven insights with code. Explore the intersection of coding and data with General Assembly. During our R-focused introductory workshop, you’ll learn to harness the power of an essential programming language for data scientists and use it to drive accurate business insights. Takeaways Perform basic data manipulation and calculations with reproduce-able code Discuss its applications in data analysis and...
Making Changes & Reaching Goals (Get Unstuck Part 2)
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
The second part of this interactive workshop series goes deep into goal setting, how to create a career roadmap, and the steps to move forward after establishing a clearer view of where you want to go. You’ll walk away with an advanced understanding of micro-goal setting and skills and techniques to ensure goals are associated with growth not simply tasks. Ideal for anyone who feels unsatisfied at work, wants more, but isn’t quite sure what that...
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Apply Strategically (Get Unstuck Series Part 3)
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
In this final part of this 3-part series program participants will learn ways to more effectively find and apply to jobs, as well as masterfully communicate what it is that they want to do and how their past experience relates to desired opportunities. You’ll learn expert-level insight on navigating a strategic job search for making a career change and learn how to finally explain any shifts, gaps, or non-traditional parts of your work history....
Python Programming 101
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Unlock data-driven insights with code. During our Python-focused introductory workshop, you’ll learn to harness the power of an essential programming language for data scientists and use it to drive accurate business insights. Working with real-world examples, you’ll: Touch on fundamental Python programming techniques and tools. Discover the history of Python and how it compares to other programming languages. Discuss its applications in...
Business Basics:How to Prioritize Your Business in 2020
General Assembly @ 444 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Every single one of us has unlimited potential for what we want to create with our businesses. But a shocking majority of us never even come close because we are exhausted and overwhelmed by things we believe we need to do to be successful. The fastest path to experience true profit and freedom is when you have a crystal clear Priority Plan, designed to create the business, the money, and the life you want in the time you have to give. In this...
Speaking Tips to Nail the Networking Event
General Assembly @ 150 N Wacker, Chicago, IL
Speaking Tips to Nail the Networking Event for Business Owners & Entrepreneurs How would you feel if you knew what events held your ideal client? Now imagine that you walk into the room knowing exactly what to say to convert all those ideal clients. We all have unlimited potential when it comes to finding profitable leads for our businesses. However, so many of us don’t even get close because we are exhausted and have overextended ourselves...
Intro to Adobe InDesign
Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe InDesign, the professional page layout standard, used by designers and production professionals to design, preflight, and publish a broad range of documents such as brochures, catalogs, magazines and books. InDesign allows you to lay out and design multiple page documents. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe InDesign in three hours. The focus will be on step-by-step instruction...
Crafting Stories with Data
The well-being of our employees, students, clients, instructors, and guests is our number one priority here at General Assembly. We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation very carefully and are adjusting delivery of our programs. Due to the current health concerns, all GA short-form events, workshops & bootcamps will temporarily be held online - including this one. Registered students will be notified 24 hours in advance of this program...
Body Language for Virtual Meetings & Interviews
In this sudden switch to all things virtual, how do you maintain great soft skills and continue to express executive presence? Research shows 85% of job success comes from having well-developed soft and people skills. Employers want great communication from team players who are compassionate, empathetic, sensitive, and able to create a safe psychological space. How do we do this through the computer when most of these soft skills are non-verbal...
Programming for Non-Programmers: The Basics
Are you a creative or entrepreneur that wishes you could speak tech with your web development team? Maybe you wish you could code a bit yourself? Programming for Non-Programmers is workshop series at General Assembly designed to help non-programmers communicate more efficiently with developers or to help aspiring developers get started. Takeaways You will be introduced to a broad overview of programming and learn the following along the way: ...
Blogging for Business
This class will be hosted online due to safety considerations, please check out the "Preparation" section on the bottom of this page. Registered participants will be notified in advance of this program with information on how to log in to the event. Blogging provides another platform not just to sell your product and/or create brand awareness but to establish yourself as an informative source in your field. This workshop covers the importance of...
Branding Fundamentals
Having and committing to the right brand strategy goes hand in hand with success, no matter what you’re selling or to whom. The right brand strategy enables meaningful, long-term customer relationships and builds engaged, high-performing teams. Plus, a brilliantly executed brand strategy saves time and money. As with all things marketing, branding is all about the customer journey. Participants in this session will take a journey of their own:...
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