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Workplace Essentials

Strong coding skills get you the interview. Workplace skills get you the job — and keep you there. This course covers professional communication, teamwork, your first 90 days on the job, and the career essentials no one teaches you in a bootcamp.

5 hours

56 lessons

Certificate included

Instructor

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This course includes:

5 hours of comprehensive lessons
Hands-on coding exercises and challenges
Code examples with syntax highlighting
Certificate of completion
Lifetime access to all content
Mobile-friendly, works offline

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Professional Communication

How to communicate clearly and professionally in a modern workplace.

13 lessons

How to Write a Professional Email

Preview

7 minutes

Preview Lesson

Subject Lines That Get Read

3 minutes

Grammar and Sentence Structure Essentials

3 minutes

Email Etiquette: CC, BCC, Reply-All

5 minutes

Using Slack and Teams Professionally

3 minutes

Voice Notes vs Text Messages: Choosing the Right Channel

6 minutes

Presenting Your Work: Stand-Ups, Demos, and Technical Explanations

6 minutes

Proactive Communication: What Good Developers Do Differently

9 minutes

How to Read a Brief: Understanding What's Actually Being Asked

5 minutes

Communication Scenarios: What Would You Do?

14 minutes

Online Etiquette and Your Professional Digital Presence

9 minutes

The Power of Remembering Names

7 minutes

Framing: How to Present Ideas That Land

7 minutes

Module 2: Working in a Team

How to collaborate, communicate, and navigate team dynamics in a professional environment.

7 lessons

Setting Expectations at the First Team Meeting

3 minutes

How to Voice Your Opinion in a Group Without Being Dismissed

3 minutes

Giving and Receiving Feedback Professionally

3 minutes

When a Teammate Is Not Pulling Their Weight

4 minutes

When and How to Escalate to a Manager

3 minutes

What NOT to Do: Team Dynamics Mistakes

3 minutes

When Your Manager Is Frustrated: Staying Grounded Under Pressure

7 minutes

Module 3: Your First 90 Days

What to expect and how to succeed in the first three months of a new job.

6 lessons

The Night Before: What to Prepare

3 minutes

How to Introduce Yourself on Day One

3 minutes

Questions to Ask in Your First Week

3 minutes

Understanding a New Codebase: Where to Start

3 minutes

How to Ask for Help Without Undermining Yourself

3 minutes

What Success Looks Like at 30, 60, and 90 Days

3 minutes

Module 4: Career Essentials

How to prepare for interviews, write a CV, and build your professional profile.

11 lessons

How to Prepare for a Technical Interview

3 minutes

The STAR Method for Behavioural Questions

3 minutes

Writing a CV That Gets Noticed in SA

3 minutes

The Email That Goes With Your CV

8 minutes

Using Your HardCoded Certificate and Portfolio Link

3 minutes

Questions to Ask the Interviewer

3 minutes

Building Your Professional Network in SA

5 minutes

Using AI Tools at Work

5 minutes

How to Stand Out as a Candidate

12 minutes

Negotiating Your Salary

12 minutes

Finding Mentors When You Do Not Have Any

8 minutes

Module 5: Managing Yourself

How to manage your time, your energy, and your mindset in the workplace. The skills employers consistently say new graduates are missing.

6 lessons

Managing Your Time and Priorities

5 minutes

Resilience: Bouncing Back From Setbacks at Work

5 minutes

Self-Awareness at Work

5 minutes

What Drives You: Understanding Motivation

6 minutes

Time-Boxing Techniques: Pomodoro, Sprints, and Focus Windows

7 minutes

Setting Boundaries at Work: Protecting Your Time Without Damaging Relationships

5 minutes

Module 6: Working in South Africa

The employment rights, financial realities, and cultural context that are specific to working in South Africa. What no one else teaches you.

4 lessons

Understanding Your Employment Contract and Rights

5 minutes

Reading Your First Payslip

4 minutes

Navigating the SA Workplace: Culture, Ubuntu, and Transformation

5 minutes

Working in SA's Economic Reality

5 minutes

Module 7: Thinking Like a Developer

Critical thinking, systematic debugging, and problem-solving frameworks every developer needs in the real world.

9 lessons

How to Break Down Any Problem

3 minutes

Debugging Systematically: Stop Guessing, Start Eliminating

3 minutes

Troubleshooting Under Pressure

3 minutes

Assessment: Problem Solving Fundamentals

10 minutes

Analysis Paralysis: When Thinking Becomes the Problem

3 minutes

When to Raise Your Hand

4 minutes

Thinking Outside the Box: Creative and Lateral Problem Solving

5 minutes

Critical Thinking Scenarios: What Would You Do?

4 minutes

Assessment: Developer Judgment Call

15 minutes

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