Upcoming Training Opportunities
HR has never been more critical. Are you ready?
The NEW SHRM Essentials of HR - begins soon!
Starts September 8, 2025 or December 1, 2025
Human Resource issues impact every company in some way. The SHRM Essentials of Human Resources teaches the HR knowledge, skills, and competencies required for business success. Whether you are new to HR or it's one of the many roles you fulfill at your company, the Essentials of Human Resources series will sharpen your HR skills.
Registration information here: SHRM Essentials of Human Resources
SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP Certification Exam Prep
Do you have the necessary credential that establishes you as a recognized expert in the Human Resources field? Let us guide you to your SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification. Expand your HR knowledge and practical, real-life competencies to make an immediate impact on your job and excel in your career.
Winter Series
Starts October 29, 2025
SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP Certification Prep
Looking for a Flexible, Non-traditional Path to Build Your Skills?
Explore our online, non-credit credential trainings—learn at your own pace and boost your career within-demand skills!
Career Training Programs fromCenter for Workforce & Professional Education
Vermont State University, in partnership with ed2go, offers online open enrollment programs designed to provide the skills necessary to acquire professional-level positions for many in-demand occupations.
Our programs are designed by a team of professionals from each respective field, providing you with effective web-based learning programs. Instructors/mentors are actively involved in your online learning experience, responding to any questions or concerns, as well as encouraging and motivating you to succeed.
View all of our Career Training Programs
In addition to our comprehensive Career Training programs, we also offer a wide selection of short, 6-week online courses designed to build skills in similar subject areas.
These courses are perfect for those looking to enhance their knowledge quickly, explore a new field, or gain specific skills without a long-term commitment. Whether you're advancing your current career or considering a new path, there's a course to fit your goals and schedule.
View all of our Fundamental Trainings
Center for Agriculture & Food Entrepreneurship (CAFE)
Explore upcoming opportunities through our CAFE program! We offer a variety of hands-on training opportunities designed to help you build skills and advance your career. Take a look below to see what’s coming up.
August 9 - 10, 2025
or
Sept. 20 - 21, 2025
This Basic Welding training begins with welding safety, a mandatory requirement for use of the Vermont State University Randolph Campus Welding Laboratory.
You will learn MIG, STICK, and TIG welding techniques with plenty of hands-on time and instructor guidance. This training will also cover various types of metals and their properties about welding, proper tank and pressure setup, what an ideal weld should look like, and recognition of when defects occur that produce poor welds. You will also learn how to use a plasma cutter to accurately cut various types of metal.
You can create a small project as part of this training or, with the suggested completion of a rocket stove. All materials are provided.
No previous welding experience is required.
Artificial Insemination of Dairy Cattle
September 3 - 4, 2025
This training, conducted in collaboration with Premier Select Sires, Inc., will blend classroom lectures with practical hands-on labs.
Participants will gain insights into the bovine reproductive cycle and learn about common reproductive management techniques.
The program includes a three-hour session dedicated to developing palpation skills and another three-hour segment focused on artificially inseminating dairy cattle.
September 29 - October 3, 2025
This five-day training is led by three wetland specialists and is based in part on:
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation manual
- The most recent Supplement for Northeast Region
- The most recent National Wetland Plant List and NRCS Hydric Soil guidance
This training will include field visits to local wetlands, and field practice with identification, form and function evaluations, and overall delineation of wetland areas.
Registration for this training also includes a yearlong membership to the Vermont Association for Wetland Science (VAWS). More information on VAWS can be found here: https://www.vermontwetlandscience.org/home/about-vaws.
VTSU, Division of Professional Development & Continuing Education | 124 Admin Dr PO Box 500 | Randolph Ctr, VT 05061-0500
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