A promising career awaits B Com graduates with these short-term job-oriented courses

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The first question that arises in the minds of students after obtaining their B Com degree is what course to pursue now. There is a wide array of short-term job-oriented programmes to choose.

Digital Marketing, Financial Analyst, Investment Banking, and Financial Risk Management are among such courses sough-after by Commerce graduates. Moreover, online platforms like Coursera, Edx, Unacademy, UpGrad, and Swayam offer rewarding courses.

However, two factors that matters the most are the excellence of the institution and your aptitude for the subjects of study. Some of the programmes and the institutions that offer them are listed below:

• National Institute of Securities Markets, Mumbai: courses like Securities Markets and Data Science in Financial Markets. (www.nism.ac.in)

• National Institute of Financial Markets: Stock Market, Accounting and Taxation programmes. (www.nifm.in)

• Bombay Stock Exchange Institute Ltd: Online full-time or part-time courses on subjects like Financial Markets, Management, Investment Banking, and Accounting. (www.bsebti.com)

• Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram: PG Diploma in GST, IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles); Training is also available through online platforms like Udemy and Ernst & Young.

• Centre for Continuing Education, Thiruvananthapuram: Diploma in e-commerce & Marketing Analytics, Logistics & Shipping Management (www.ccek.org)

• Insurance Institutes of India, Mumbai: Certificate, Diploma courses (www.inranceinstituteofinddia.com)

• St Teresa’s College, Ernakulam: Diploma in Digital Marketing

• Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, Pune: Certificate or Diploma courses in subjects like FinTech, Analytics, and Management. (www.scdl.net)

• Kerala State Cooperative Union: Higher Diploma in Cooperation (HDC) course (https://scu.kerala.gov.in)

• CIASL Academy (a subsidiary institute of the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL): Aviation Management (www.ciasl.aero/CIASL-Academy)

• KIITS, Thiruvananthapuram: PG Diploma in Tourism, Diploma in Airports Operations/Logistics (www.kittsedu.org)

• IATA: Travel & Tourism (www.iata.org/en/training). Various IIMs are also offering online certificate courses.

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