Starting date: Jan. 13, 2014

What it offers: This four-week course, led by Sue Dowson, eLearning advisor at Polytechnic West, is designed to teach you how to manage a project from start to finish, with a focus on project management standards and processes. It teaches key skills, such as how to manage stakeholders, how to plan work and how to execute projects.

Selling point: According to TEKsystems' 2014 Annual IT Forecast, project managers ranked No. 2 -- just behind programmers/developers -- on the list of critical positions cited by the nearly 900 U.S. and Canadian IT leaders surveyed for the study.