Every role course, in one place.

AI Champion

Lead AI adoption across a department: bring shadow AI into the open, write a use policy people follow, evaluate a vendor's data terms, pilot against a baseline, and handle the day an AI draft promises a customer something that is not true.

AI Data Annotator

Label text, images and audio against a guideline, rank, score and rewrite AI responses, check claims, handle personal data, and answer a quality audit. Honest about the work: mostly remote contract work, paid per task or per hour, with no guaranteed hours.

AI Engineer (LLM applications)

Take a customer assistant from demo to pilot at a B2B supplier: scope it, build an evaluation set before trusting it, fix retrieval, keep one customer's orders from another, make it say 'I don't know', cost it, and report honestly on the pilot.

AI Workflow Automation Specialist

Design, build, test and maintain automated workflows that connect everyday business apps and AI steps together, and leave with four real automation artifacts you can show a client or an employer.

AI Workflow Owner

Build a small automation someone else's work now depends on, document it well enough to survive your own absence, and be the person colleagues bring a misbehaving AI tool to.

Video Editor / Content Producer

Edit and deliver a product launch video for an outdoor clothing brand for a week: plan the cut from 42 minutes of footage, check AI captions properly, keep music, voices and AI-generated shots honest and licensed, and read the numbers on what viewers actually watched.

BSA/AML Officer / AML Compliance Manager

Run a bank's AML program as its BSA/AML officer: tune monitoring to risk when the queue outgrows the team, make the filing decision the business line objects to, answer an independent test and an examiner's finding, and tell the board what it needs to know.

Cert route: ACAMS CAMS-FCI

Analytics Engineer

Build the layer of tested, documented data models that dashboards and analysts rely on: settle what a metric means and who owns it, fix test failures at their real source, catch stale data before it reaches a board pack, make models faster without losing late changes, and release changes safely.

Cert route: dbt Analytics Engineering Certification

Azure Cloud Administrator

Run a firm's Azure estate for a week: cut access back to least privilege, stop a bill that budgets only warn about, store seven years of records at the right tier and redundancy, close an open RDP port, and prove backups restore.

Cert route: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Junior Back-End Developer

Build the server side: design an API somebody else can use, model and query the data behind it, put the authorisation checks in the endpoint, test it against a real database, and debug it where you cannot attach a debugger.

Background Screening Analyst

Produce pre-employment background reports that are accurate and lawful: tie records to the right person before reporting them, apply the FCRA's reporting limits, hold the line when a client wants to skip a step, reinvestigate disputes on time, and fix the causes of errors.

Bookkeeper

Keep a trades firm's books for a week: reconcile the bank to the penny, reconcile a supplier statement, chase overdue customers without losing them, prepare a VAT return that only reclaims what the rules allow, and close the month with accruals and prepayments.

Tax Preparer (Canada)

Work a week of the 2027 filing season at a Mississauga tax office: file a newcomer family's first returns so their benefits start, prepare a delivery driver's business income and CPP, split a retiree's pension, refuse to leave cash income off, and refer a Quebec resident correctly.

Clinical Research Coordinator

Coordinate a diabetes drug trial at a family practice for a week: consent a participant on the right form, keep visits inside protocol windows, report a serious adverse event on time, correct source records properly, and tell the sponsor honestly where enrolment stands.

Cloud Security Engineer

Own an insurer's cloud security posture for a fortnight: prioritise by exposure not score, move admins to just-in-time access, roll out conditional access safely, get secrets out of code, close public endpoints, find what Copilot can see, tune Sentinel and report risk.

Cert route: Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (SC-500)

Construction Project Coordinator

Keep a 24-home building project organised for a week: stop work going on to an out-of-date drawing, rebuild the look-ahead when bricks arrive late, handle a client change properly, run a site meeting that produces actions, and report progress honestly.

Conversational AI Builder

Build a customer-facing chatbot a small business can trust: set what it answers and what it hands to a person, ground it in the right sources, test it before launch, stand behind what it says, collect only what it needs, and hand it over so the business can keep it right.

Customer Onboarding Specialist

Take a new customer from signed contract to real use: agree success criteria, clean and migrate their data, train each role, triage go-live problems, and hand over an account measured against what was promised.

Customer Service Representative

Handle real phone, chat and email support: de escalate an upset customer, resolve order and billing problems correctly, hold an honest retention conversation, and finish with four artifacts you can show an interviewer.

Customer Success Associate

Look after a book of business customers so they get what they bought: read health scores without trusting them blindly, get a new account to its first real result, keep sales promises honest, work a renewal at risk, and show customers the value they got.

Customer Support Manager

Read a team's numbers as a diagnostic rather than a scoreboard, decide which repeated exception becomes policy and which must stay an exception, take a recurring cause to the department that owns it, and manage the team lead who is the problem.

Junior Data Analyst

Take a vague stakeholder request, clean the messy data behind it, answer it correctly in SQL, and hand back a dashboard with its spec and a one page memo somebody can act on.

Cert route: Microsoft PL-300

Data Center Technician

Learn to work a data centre floor: read a rack elevation, work out whether a circuit can take one more server, find a hot spot, replace a failed drive and run it through a return, work other people's equipment under a smart hands ticket, and leave holding the documents that prove it.

Cert route: CompTIA Server+, or a vendor data centre associate certification

Junior Data Engineer

Learn to move and shape data reliably: build pipelines that can be re-run safely, load incrementally, catch bad data before anyone reports on it, and tell people honestly when yesterday's numbers were wrong.

Cert route: Microsoft Azure DP-900, then a provider data engineering certification

Digital Accessibility Tester

Test websites and services the way disabled people use them: audit against WCAG 2.2 AA, find what automated scanners miss with a keyboard and a screen reader, run fair sessions with disabled users, hold suppliers to their contracts, and write an honest accessibility statement.

Cert route: IAAP CPACC

E-commerce Operations Specialist

Run the operations behind an online shop and a marketplace: keep stock figures honest so nothing oversells, check promotions against UK pricing law before they go live, work a returns queue by what customers are entitled to, fix a marketplace health warning at its cause, and plan a peak.

Endpoint Administrator (Microsoft 365 and Intune)

Run 1,480 devices for a housing association for a fortnight: enforce compliance without locking staff out, deploy laptops with Autopilot, protect data on personal phones, stage updates, remove local admin rights, handle a stolen laptop and automate safely.

Cert route: Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)

Energy Analyst

Cut energy waste across nine leisure centres for a week: find a night-time load that should not be there, catch a bill that charges for energy never used, build a case for pool covers, prove whether a new boiler saved anything, and report energy and carbon honestly.

FP&A Analyst

Do a month in finance planning: split a revenue miss into volume and price, flex the budget before judging a cost, reforecast the year from drivers, build next year's budget with scenarios, test a business case, and write the board commentary.

Fraud Analyst

Work a fraud analyst's week at a retail bank: triage card-not-present alerts, contain an account takeover, handle a first-party dispute without accusing anyone, refer a mule account to the financial intelligence team, and propose a rule change with its precision and recall worked out.

GIS Technician

Keep a water utility's map data right: fix a dataset that lands in the wrong place, repair a join that silently failed, geocode customer reports without hiding a neighbourhood, measure distances in the right projection, and make a map the board can trust.

Cert route: Esri ArcGIS Pro Foundation

GRC Analyst / Junior IT Auditor

Learn to do the GRC and IT audit job: map controls, run a walkthrough, rate a risk, sample and test evidence, and write a finding a busy executive can act on.

Cert route: ISACA CISA

Healthcare Data Analyst

Run a family practice's quality reporting for a week: define a diabetes measure so it cannot flatter, find a units error hiding in lab data, release data to researchers without releasing patients, show clinician results without misleading small numbers, and report an honest year-on-year change.

HR Advisor

Advise managers at an insurance broker through a week of casework after the 2027 changes: a conduct case where the employee now has unfair dismissal rights, harassment by a client, long-term sickness and adjustments, a flexible working request, and a case risk report for leadership.

HR Coordinator / HR Generalist

Run the people side of a small UK company properly: handle a probation decision, a right to work check, a raised concern and a payroll deadline without getting any of them wrong. Set in the UK, with what changes elsewhere named as it comes up.

Cert route: CIPD Level 3

IAM Analyst

Learn to run identity as a job: read a SAML assertion and a token payload, move joiners, movers and leavers through the lifecycle without leaving access behind, design roles that survive real people, run an access review that means something, and keep privileged accounts under control.

Cert route: Microsoft SC-300, or Okta Certified Professional

Internal Audit Associate

Audit a company's purchase-to-pay process for a week: plan from risk, test a sample and the whole population, tell an anomaly from a fraud, write findings management agrees to fix, and give an opinion the audit committee can rely on.

Inventory & Demand Planner

Plan stock for a garden-furniture importer before its summer peak: find the bias in a forecast, keep a promotion out of the baseline, set safety stock and a reorder point, choose an order quantity against a container, and clear stock that is only costing money.

IT Support (safety skills)

Stay safe at the repair bench and on client visits: swollen batteries, overloaded power strips, e-waste and the data on old drives, your own posture and working alone. Four days at a Nairobi repair shop where the right answer is often to stop.

Junior Data Scientist

Take a churn model from request to report at an online retailer: define what it predicts and why, catch the leak behind a too-good score, choose metrics by cost, test uplift properly, check privacy, hold a launch to evidence and watch it drift.

Junior Front-End Developer

Build a page to a spec that survives real content and real screens, work inside a component codebase, debug with devtools instead of guesswork, fix genuine accessibility defects, and use git and code review the way a team actually does.

Junior Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Keep a real service healthy on Kubernetes through its busiest weeks: diagnose a failed rollout and roll back cleanly, size memory from evidence, set health checks that make deployments smooth, grant least-privilege access and handle a leaked secret, and keep the service up through node maintenance.

Cert route: CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

KYC/AML Analyst

Learn how a bank actually verifies who a customer is, screens for sanctions and PEP risk, monitors transactions for suspicious activity, and writes the case file a BSA/AML officer can act on, finishing with artifacts you can show an interviewer.

Logistics Coordinator

Keep goods moving for a garden-furniture importer in its busiest month: replan a late container before a promotion, choose between a pallet network and a dedicated trailer, find why deliveries miss on time in full, and make a damage claim that stands up.

Medical Billing and Coding Specialist

Work a week in a family practice's billing office: code visits from the notes to the right specificity, clean claims before they go out, work denials in order of what can be recovered, push back on coding the notes do not support, and report on ageing receivables.

Patient Access Representative

Work a week remotely on a family practice's front desk: cut no-shows without overbooking, verify insurance and give patients honest cost estimates, handle records requests and callers under HIPAA, chase a prior authorization against its deadline, and report the week's access numbers.

Network Engineer (safety skills)

Stay safe on network field and data centre work: heavy kit and ladders, fibre light you can't see, battery and gas-suppression rooms, rooftop antennas and permits. Four days with an ISP field team where the right answer is often to stop.

Network Security Administrator

Learn to own the controls on a real network: segmentation, firewall rule bases, ACLs, VPNs, IDS and IPS, NAC and device hardening, and leave holding a change request, a rule base audit, a segmentation design and a hardening checklist.

Cert route: Cisco CCNA, then CompTIA Security+

Health and Safety Technician

Work a week as a warehouse's safety technician: classify an injury correctly under OSHA's rules, find the real cause of a forklift incident, fix a chemical labelling gap, stop an unevaluated driver, and report the safety numbers honestly when a bonus depends on them.

Online Business Manager

Take over a growing company's operations: map the work nobody owns, coach assistants through their mistakes, cut a tool bill before it renews, close a leaver's access, hire without misclassifying, hold a project to scope and plan the next quarter with the founder.

Cert route: PMI CAPM

Payroll Specialist

Run a UK payroll week at a 190-person company: clear a checking run, stop a bank-detail change that is really a fraud, re-test pay against the minimum wage after salary sacrifice, get a pay date right for staff on Universal Credit, and put a pay error right with the person it hurt.

Cert route: CIPP Payroll Technician Certificate

Prior Authorization Specialist

Run a family practice's authorization desk for a week: triage an open worklist against payer deadlines, build a request that shows the plan's criteria honestly, answer a denial with the right route, handle a drug request outside the federal rule, and report the month's approval and overturn rates.

Privacy and AI Governance Analyst

Work a week in a retailer's privacy team: answer a subject access request properly, assess and report a data breach inside 72 hours, review an AI CV-screening tool before it rejects anyone, find the AI tools staff are really using, and report to the board.

Process Improvement Analyst

Run an improvement project the way it holds up: define the problem before solving it, measure only what can be trusted, find the causes that matter most, test changes in a pilot with a comparison, and put controls in place so the gain lasts after you move on.

Cert route: Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (for example ASQ CSSGB)

Procurement Specialist

Buy well for a garden-furniture importer: compare suppliers on landed cost rather than price, prepare and run a negotiation, raise a purchase order that protects the business, catch an invoice that does not match, and report savings you can prove.

Project Manager

Run a real project from the middle: reset a status report that says green when the numbers say red, decide change requests within your authority and take the rest to the sponsor, hold a vendor to its contract, turn risks into decisions, and put a recovery plan in front of a steering group.

Cert route: PMI PMP

QA Analyst

Decide what a sprint's testing time actually covers, review a junior's suite and bug reports for the specific gap rather than a general impression, and weigh what is worth automating against what stays manual.

Cert route: ISTQB CTAL-TA

Platform / Reliability Engineer

Keep three systems up across providers for eight days: map single points of failure, survive a results-day spike, fail a hospital database over and back without losing prescriptions, recover from a bad migration, keep government data in-country, and drill the switch.

Revenue Operations Analyst

Run revenue operations for a SaaS company in the last month of a quarter: clean a pipeline that exists only on paper, define stages and measure conversion, fix how fast leads are answered and test it properly, and forecast the quarter as a range.

Sales Development Representative

Book meetings for a SaaS sales team for a week: split a bought list by what UK rules allow, screen calls, qualify real prospects, write outreach worth reading, read your own numbers honestly, and hand a meeting over so it turns into a deal.

Senior KYC/AML Analyst / AML Investigator

Review the alerts a junior analyst already closed, draft the SAR narrative a BSA officer has to be able to sign without rewriting, and find the pattern across a queue that no single case shows.

Senior QA / SDET

Set quality strategy for a whole product: get a flaky suite trusted again, stop a second framework creeping in, move testing down the pyramid, give leadership measures that cannot be gamed, and write a release gate people will not route round.

Cert route: ISTQB CTAL-TAE

SEO Specialist

Do SEO for a small online business the way search works in 2026: diagnose a traffic drop without guessing, fix what stops pages being indexed, turn down scaled AI pages and paid links, and report on orders rather than rankings.

Server Hardware Technician

Build out a GPU server cluster the way it holds up in production: receive and inspect hardware without damaging it, read burn-in results and act on them, prove a faulty part before returning it, check rack power against redundancy, and hand over honestly.

Cert route: CompTIA Server+

ServiceNow Administrator

Run a ServiceNow instance for a week: move a change safely from development to production, grant access by role not by favour, import 1,200 laptops without creating duplicates, fix the rule sending incidents to the wrong team, and test an upgrade before it bites.

SOC Analyst Tier 2 / Incident Responder

Own a real intrusion from a wrongly closed alert to the review: reopen Tier 1's call, contain within your authority, scope and time-line the attack, preserve evidence in order, brief the data protection officer, recover cleanly and fix the detection that missed it.

Cert route: CompTIA CySA+

Social Media Manager

Run a small brand's social channels the way the work is judged in 2026: read the numbers that matter, brief creators so every ad is labelled, keep reviews inside UK consumer law, handle a complaint that goes public, and plan and report on what social actually earns.

Support Team Lead

Take the escalations the front line cannot resolve: approve the exception or refuse it, review cases somebody else closed, find the one cause under three complaints, and coach the rep whose numbers are the best on the team.

Talent Coordinator / Technical Recruiter

Run hiring for a UK software company without getting the legal parts wrong: an advert that cannot go out as written, a shortlist with a visa and an adjustment in it, a pipeline that is failing for a reason nobody wants to hear.

Technical Support Engineer (SaaS, Tier 2)

Be the Tier 2 engineer for a care-sector software company for a fortnight: sort Tier 1's escalations, reproduce a clock-change bug engineering can fix, read an API integration's logs, handle data requests properly, run customer updates in an outage and coach Tier 1.

Cert route: CompTIA A+

Third-Party Risk Analyst

Manage a payment firm's technology suppliers under DORA for a week: fix the gaps in the register of ICT arrangements, decide which services support critical functions, assess a new provider, check its contract against what the rules require, and report concentration risk to the board.

Tax Preparer

Work a week of the 2027 filing season at a storefront tax office: run due diligence before claiming credits, prepare a server's return with the new tips deduction, handle side-gig income a client wants left off, protect client data, and report the office's week honestly.

Virtual Assistant

Run a client's calendar, inbox, travel, and meetings end to end, communicate like a trusted operator, and finish with a proposal and portfolio built for real freelance client work.

Vulnerability Management Analyst

Turn thousands of scan findings into this week's few: prioritise by exploitation and exposure, write a risk exception someone can sign, verify fixes instead of trusting tickets, respond when a flaw is exploited before a patch exists, and report risk that really fell.

Cert route: CompTIA CySA+

Remote and IT Worker (workload skills)

Treat workload and boundaries as professional skills: on-call rotations and handovers, working across time zones, saying no to clients without losing them, and taking workload data to your manager. Five days as a Lagos support engineer for a US company.

Workforce Management Analyst

Plan a contact centre's week: forecast a price-letter spike by half-hour, staff it with Erlang C and shrinkage, run the day when calls beat the forecast, fix an adherence report before anyone is blamed, and report a missed day honestly.

IT Support Technician

Work a real service desk: triage incidents and requests, run password and MFA resets safely, hold a P1 without dropping the queue, escalate what you cannot close, and finish with five artifacts you can put in front of an interviewer.

Cert route: CompTIA A+

Junior UX/UI Designer

Learn the durable model of UX/UI work: honest research, structure before pixels, wireframes to hi-fi, accessibility built in, and a written case study that proves you can reason about a design rather than just decorate one.

QA Tester

Learn to do the QA job: turn acceptance criteria into test cases, work a defect from first symptom to verified fix, log bug reports a developer can act on without asking you anything, and sign a release off honestly.

Cert route: ISTQB Foundation

Any role plus AI fluency

Use AI tools on real work without embarrassing yourself: structure a prompt, verify what comes back, keep confidential data out, and know what not to automate. You leave with a prompt library, one automation specified end to end and built where you can build it, and an honest time-savings writeup.

Cloud Support Associate

Learn to do the cloud support job: read a bill and explain why it moved, work out why a resource will not start, answer a shared responsibility question honestly, and run a small deployment with a rollback plan.

Cert route: AWS Cloud Practitioner (or Azure AZ-900)

Junior Network / NOC Technician

Learn to work a network operations shift: read a monitoring alert, isolate a fault layer by layer, subnet by hand, know what to check before you call the carrier, and leave with the diagram, ticket and change record that prove you can do it.

Cert route: CompTIA Network+

Junior SOC Analyst

Learn to do the analyst job: work an alert queue without drowning, tell a real attack from a noisy rule, build a timeline from logs, escalate with evidence, and write the incident up so somebody else can act on it.

Cert route: CompTIA Security+, then CySA+

Digital Marketing Specialist

Learn to do the job: read the funnel as a diagnostic, tell channels apart by the intent they capture, scope real SEO and paid search work, design measurement before a campaign launches, and turn analytics into a recommendation someone can act on honestly.

Cert route: Google Analytics and Google Ads certifications

Junior Regulatory Compliance Analyst

Work a real compliance analyst seat at a bank: review transactions and accounts for regulatory red flags, apply BSA/AML and KYC basics, write up findings, escalate to a compliance officer, and finish with five artifacts you can put in front of an interviewer.

Project Coordinator

Learn to do the coordinator job: build and hold a plan, run the cadence that keeps a team honest, write a status report that says the true thing, keep a RAID log that actually gets used, and turn scattered meeting notes into actions people do.

Cert route: CAPM or PSM I

Cloud Security Associate

Learn to secure a cloud environment the way the job actually goes: review who can do what, find the configuration that leaks, decide what to contain first, preserve the evidence, and refuse a bad request in a way that gets you invited back.

Cert route: CompTIA Security+, then AWS Certified Security Specialty

Junior Sysadmin

Run Windows and Linux servers side by side: identity and permissions, disk and services, logs, patching, scheduled work, and backups you have actually restored. You leave with a provisioning script, a tested restore runbook, a patch log and a postmortem.

Cert route: CompTIA Linux+ · Microsoft server certifications

Business Analyst

Learn to do the BA job: elicit a real need instead of transcribing a request, map a process as-is before redesigning it, write requirements and acceptance criteria that hold up in build and test, and run a genuine BA week end to end.

Cert route: IIBA ECBA

Junior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Build and ship software the way a platform team does: version control discipline, a pipeline you can explain, containers that build the same everywhere, and deploys you can roll back. You leave with a commented pipeline, a container setup, a runbook, an incident timeline and a hardening checklist.

Junior SRE / Linux Admin

Learn to keep a Linux service up: read a machine under load, choose what to measure, define an objective you can defend, take a page at 3am without making it worse, and write the postmortem that stops it happening again.

Cert route: CompTIA Linux+ then RHCSA

BI Analyst / Power BI Developer

Build the thing other people use without you in the room: a star schema model, relationships that filter the right way, a small library of correct DAX measures, and a multi page dashboard that answers a decision instead of decorating a wall.

Cert route: Microsoft PL-300

AI Support Engineer

Build, integrate and support an LLM-backed feature in production: structure prompts for reliability, ground answers with retrieval, prove a change is an improvement with an eval set, and diagnose why it misbehaves once real users touch it. Assumes you already read Python and can call an HTTP API.

Salesforce Admin

Learn to do the admin job on a CRM platform: shape the data model, control who sees what, design automation that fires once, build reports the business can trust, and ship changes through a sandbox instead of straight into production.

Cert route: Salesforce Certified Administrator