If you’ve ever had to create a job posting, you probably know the drill: come up with a job title, requisite experience, and educational requirements. While this may result in a slew of candidates who meet these prerequisites, how many quality candidates are not applying because they assume they won’t be considered? Or worse, are you ignoring candidates who don’t check off those boxes? As the modern workforce continues to change, there’s the growing recognition that building an organization based solely on college degrees, work experience, and previous job titles no longer meet the needs of a shifting global workforce. Instead of beginning the hiring process by scanning resumes, a skills-based organization begins by evaluating a candidate’s relevant skills before doing anything else. In this course, learn how to build a skills-based organization to increase your talent pool and reap benefits like employee upskilling, higher retention, career pathing, and the support of DEI initiatives.

Looking to enhance your understanding of C++? In this course, explore some of the more complex aspects of this core programming language. From the basics of class definition to operator overloads and move semantics, instructor Bill Weinman helps you develop the skills you need to get the most out of C++. Learn about lambda expressions, concurrency, constraints and concepts, optional and variant classes, structured bindings, and best practices for initialization. Along the way, Bill covers some of the newer features of C++ including how to use the format library, the spaceship operator, the span class, and more.

Want to learn more about securing APIs? Check out the OWASP API Security Top 10, a list of security vulnerabilities compiled and published by the Open Web Application Security Project. In this course, instructor Davin Jackson shows you how APIs really work so you can get up and running with securing them and better protect your applications. Find out why it’s so important to develop your security management skills, especially as more and more applications become increasingly API driven. Get tips along the way on dealing with common API vulnerabilities, including broken object-level authorization, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, lack of resources and rate limiting, mass assignment, and more.