Expand your skillset

Machine learning certification courses and exams can help you develop crucial skills and experience that you can showcase to hiring managers. Besides validating your expertise, certification exams and courses also expand your understanding of technical concepts and tools that you can use to develop machine learning applications that solve real-world problems. Read here for more information top AI certification programs.

Get certified

Which certification program is right for you depends on your previous experience and career goals. For instance, if you're a beginner, you may start with courses that teach you basic programming skills and then advance to learn about more complex aspects of machine learning. Experts, on the other hand, may wish to choose certification courses that expand on the knowledge they already have rather than beginning with the basics.

Here are the best machine learning certifications you should consider if you're looking to grow your career:

• Top picks for machine learning certification programs
  • IBM Machine Learning Professional Certificate
  • Professional ML Engineer Certification
  • MIT Professional Certificate Program in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning
• Alternative machine learning programs
  • Machine Learning Cornell Certificate Program
  • Machine Learning Specialization By Stanford
  • Machine Learning Bootcamp by Springboard
  • Machine Learning with Python
  • Harvard Data Science: Machine Learning
  • TensorFlow Developer Certificate Program

Prompt engineering

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AI-related work

Wondering how you can start doing work related to AI on Upwork? Here are a few suggestions.

1. Add AI skills to your profileIf you have upskilled on any AI topics, be sure to add the skill tags to your profile. Some AI-related skill tags on Upwork include:
   • Machine Learning
   • NLP, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation
   • Deep Learning Modeling
   • Neural Network
   • ChatGPT
   • Computer vision
   • Generative AI
   • Chatbot development
   • Artificial Intelligence
   • Large Language Model
   • Open AI
2. Complete and add a certification to your profile If you have completed a course and have earned an AI-related certification, be sure to add that to your profile as well. The video below reminds you how to add certifications to your profile.