At Academy Xi, we’re building a bold community of ambitious changemakers. With our purpose-driven approach towards future-ready career development, we’re committed to unleashing powerful potential across people’s lives.
Our name (pronounced “ex-eye”) and logo are a reflection of the critical role we play in shaping our own lives and the world around us.
In mathematics, “X” is a variable, a problem that needs to be solved, and “i” stands for the personal responsibility and power to solve the problem. Brought together, “Xi” reflects our commitment to not only identifying problems in the world, but also becoming part of the solution.
The world’s love affair with social media represents a golden opportunity for businesses with marketing ambitions. The Social Media Marketing industry has grown by 17% in the last year alone and is now worth $134 billion, accounting for 33% of all digital marketing spending.
In Australia, skilled Social Media Marketers are more sought after than ever before, with Seek currently advertising over 9,000 specialist roles.
Designed in response to rising demand for Social Media Marketers, this course is hands-on, immersive and offers a balanced skill-set, enabling you to produce razor-sharp content that’s backed up by a solid marketing strategy:
Customer Experience (CX) is a future-proof discipline that will remain in demand. It’s an innately human skillset, that technology simply cannot truly understand and replicate.
In this course you will gain a broad understanding of CX, including foundational CX theory, where CX fits in an organisation, and how best to approach influencing others to adopt a CX mindset. You will also graduate with a slew of practical CX skills including CX research and stakeholder management techniques, customer journey mapping, CX strategy design and much more.
You will walk away having created a CX strategy project, that can be actioned in your current role or used as a portfolio piece to demonstrate your practical skillset to current and future employers.
Learn moreWith the world of digital projects growing so rapidly, companies will need to invest in training and recruitment for their project teams. According to a 2018 World Economic Forum report:
54% of qualified PMs with the right skills will need training and upskilling by 2022.
Our Digital Project Management Elevate course is built for aspiring digital project managers, or for more traditional managers who want to get formal training specific to the digital space.
Elevate your career with hands-on skills by:
Every time you use a digital product, your experience of it and the impression it leaves is the result of “good” or “poor” UX UI Design. Knowing that one in three consumers will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience, it’s clear that UX UI Design has the potential to directly impact a company’s bottom line.
UX UI Design is central to any business strategy across all industries. Most design roles require an understanding of both in order to bridge the gap between a business’ goals and its users’ needs. Australian hiring managers and recruiters report that employment demand for designers with both UX and UI skills far outweighs the supply.
If you want to fast-track your route into the industry, our UX UI Design: Transform course is for you. This intensive online program will equip you with the full spectrum of theoretical and practical skills required to be a well-rounded UX UI Designer.
Learn moreThe demand for Graphic Designers is expanding, with over 1,250 roles available in Australia and the field set to grow by 12.9% over the next 5 years.
As well as working in a company’s design team, Graphic Designers may enjoy the freedom of freelancing or being self-employed.
This Graphic Design course is highly practical, immersive, and will get you industry-ready faster than other traditional courses, quickly transforming your creative instincts into the tangible skill-set employers are searching for. By the end of the course you’ll:
During and after the course, you can work with our Career Support Team to identify job opportunities, prepare for interviews, kickstart a business, or land your dream design role.
Learn moreThe demand for data analytics skills has risen sharply, with LinkedIn reporting a massive 650% surge in Data Analytics and Data Science roles since 2012. This upward trend is expected to continue, with the number of roles in Australia set to grow a further 28% by 2024.
This course is perfect for anyone wanting to start a highly sought-after Data Analytics career.
2,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data are generated each day across all industries.
With an almost limitless amount of raw data at our fingertips, it’s up to data analysts and data scientists to extract meaningful information from it. If you’re ready to make sense of data and unleash its true potential, this course is for you.
Learn moreThis course is perfect for anyone who wants to start a new tech career as a Cyber Security Analyst or Cyber Security Engineer. An average of 185 cybercrime reports are made in Australia every day - that's more than 1 report every 10 minutes!
As a result, there is rising demand for cyber experts, with experienced professionals commanding an average salary of $121,591. With amazing pay opportunities and huge scope for professional development, there’s never been a better time to break into the industry.
That’s where this course comes in. In just 12 months, you’ll learn how to think, analyze, and protect like a Cyber Security professional. As well as helping you pick up practical tools and technical skills, this course enables you to develop a range of soft skills. Prove you can translate complex issues into stakeholder-friendly language by showcasing your final project to a panel of experts.
By the end of the course, you’ll be prepared to gain a globally recognized CompTIA Security+ certification. You’ll also build a portfolio of projects to impress potential employers and work with our Career Support Program to land the role you’re after.
Learn moreEvery time you use a digital product, your experience of it and the impression it leaves is the result of “good” or “poor” UX and UI Design. Knowing that one in three consumers will walk away from a brand they love after just one bad experience (PwC, The Future of CX), it’s clear that UX and UI Design have the potential to directly impact a company’s bottom line.
This course is for you if you want to complement your existing professional expertise and boost your career with in-demand skills in UX, UI, design thinking, and human-centered processes.
On completion of this course, you’ll be able to:
Upskilling in Graphic Design opens a career path full of opportunities, rewards, and personal fulfillment. It’s a passion job where you can solve problems you care about, shifting perspectives through powerful visual communications.
Enjoy true flexibility by choosing how, where, and when you work. As industry, tools, and specializations constantly evolve, strengthen your growth mindset and never stop learning. It’s a future-proof career that will remain in-demand, as creativity can never be automated. Companies across all industries are constantly on the hunt for people with Graphic Design skills to help them craft thoughtfully designed assets that build brand recognition and loyalty.
This course is ideal if you want to complement your existing professional expertise and boost your career with a practical course in Graphic Design.
Working with industry-standard software*, you’ll learn the technical and conceptual skills required to execute ideas, producing effective and inspirational work. You’ll explore the design process, idea generation, and problem-solving techniques to solve briefs. You’ll also gain an appreciation of what makes good design above and beyond the aesthetics. You’ll create a portfolio and brand book, demonstrating your practical skills to a current or future employer.
Learn moreOur UX Design Foundations course is ideal if you’re curious about this in-demand discipline and want to quench your curiosity by learning the basics of UX.
You’ll explore the key concepts underpinning the UX process, from defining the problem space and the different types of UX research to building empathy with your users and translating research into concept ideation.
You’ll know how to establish a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and will learn the different techniques to create a prototype and leverage users’ feedback and usability testing to improve your solution. You’ll build assets which will form the basis of your portfolio project, showcasing your approach and outcomes to a UX challenge.
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