GoSkills
Author: Kaitlyn Short
GoSkills' mission is to provide people with a quality learning experience that helps them achieve the right skills to advance in their careers and reach their goals.
GoSkills.com is an online learning platform that helps anyone and everyone learn business skills to reach their personal and professional goals. With a GoSkills.com subscription, members have access to over 70 courses consisting of bite-sized and interactive content.
For businesses, GoSkills provides a flexible learning platform for training teams of any size. Businesses can seamlessly manage, track, and assign in-house and third-party content. It is the chosen Learning Management System (LMS) for over 600 businesses, including Fortune 500 companies and SMEs.
GoSkills is best suited for customers interested in beginning or furthering their career in the business industry.
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The Good
- Simple Lessons
- Variety of Courses
- Multi-Device Friendly
- Earn a Certificate
- Scholarship
Simple Lessons
GoSkills understands that most of its customers are busy; that's why the company focuses on providing users with fun, flexible, and bite-sized lessons. Generally, GoSkills' lessons consist of the following:
- Short, engaging 3–6 minute HD videos
- Transcripts for quick-and-easy reference
- Reference guides with a concise summary of the video
- Short quizzes to test your newly acquired knowledge from the lesson
- Access to course content 24/7
- Personalized learning, take the Skills Test to determine strengths and areas of improvement
Variety of Courses
GoSkills offers a variety of courses for consumers to pick from, but you'll quickly notice that most of the courses are related to the business industry.
Listed below are some of the courses offered by GoSkills:
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Apple Keynote
- CSS
- Evernote
- Google Drive & Apps
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Lean Six Sigma Advanced Principles
- Lean Six Sigma Introduction
- Microsoft Excel Beginner & Advanced
- Microsoft Excel For Mac Users
- Microsoft Excel Macros & VBA
- Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables
- Microsoft Word Basic & Advanced
- PHP
- Python
- Ruby on Rails
- SQL
- Trello
Multi-Device Friendly
Users can access a course from any computer, tablet, or mobile device with an internet connection. Keep in mind that you will need a modern browser (such as Chrome, Firefox, or Internet Explorer 11). If you'd like to make sure GoSkills will work with a device, we suggest trying out one of the free course modules.
Earn a Certificate
Upon completing a course, users will get a verifiable GoSkills Certificate of Completion. After receiving the certificate, users can add it to their CV, resume, or LinkedIn profile.
Employers can verify the certificate's authenticity by entering the student's name and certificate number on the company website.
Scholarship
Something unique that GoSkills offers is a scholarship. The company encourages any female high school or college students who want to start their own business to apply. Scholarship winners will receive $2,000, and the company gives away two scholarships per year.
The Bad
- Cannot Share Course Access or Materials
- Returns and Refunds
Cannot Share Course Access or Materials
Users cannot share their access or course materials with other people. The company recommends that users recommend their family, friends, and colleagues to sign up for a course themselves.
Returns and Refunds
GoSkills users who choose not to use the software for the term are not entitled to a refund of money paid for the subscription.
Additionally, GoSkills courses cannot be returned or transferred. Paying customers may request a refund and GoSkills will consider it, but there is no guarantee that the company will refund your money.
The only exception to the policy is for customers in the European Union (EU). EU customers have the right to cancel within 14 days from the day of purchase. But this currently only applies to those who have purchased via Reed UK.
The Bottom Line
GoSkills is a great resource for those wanting to achieve their professional goals. The company makes learning more flexible and fun with bite-sized lessons consisting of short, simple, and straight-to-the-point HD videos, easy-to-read transcripts, reference guides, and short quizzes.
Additionally, GoSkills users can access the platform no matter where they are, since it works on just about every device that can connect to the internet.
However, we recommend taking the time to make sure this is the right online training company for you since GoSkills generally will not return or refund a course.
