Courses for 2026 · every course carries live briefs

We teach where the hiring is compulsory, not fashionable.

Discretionary hiring freezes. Hiring driven by a legal deadline does not, because someone has to do the work before the date arrives, whatever the market is doing. Track 01 exists entirely because of that. Tracks 02 and 03 sit where regulation, infrastructure and AI adoption overlap, which is where European employers report the deepest shortages.

Track

Track 01

Compliance-driven roles

Roles that exist because a date is coming

12 weeks·3 briefs·No code required

AI Governance & EU AI Act Practitioner

Risk classification, technical files, data governance records, human oversight design, conformity assessment, post-market monitoring. The whole evidence chain a deployer of a high-risk system has to be able to produce on demand.

Why now The bulk of the high-risk regime, including Annex III systems, starts to apply on 2 August 2026. Firms serving the EU market are hiring governance analysts, AI auditors and risk managers, and almost nobody has done the work before.

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14 weeks·4 briefs·Career switchers welcome

NIS2 & Cyber GRC Practitioner

Gap assessment against ISO 27001 and NIST CSF, supplier and third-party risk under Article 21, incident reporting procedures, evidence management, and writing for a board that will not read past page two.

Why now NIS2 is being enforced nationally across the EU and has created compliance-officer and supply-chain-security roles that did not exist five years ago. Germany alone is estimated to need roughly 106,000 more cyber professionals.

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10 weeks·2 briefs·Finance background helps

DORA Operational Resilience for Financial Services

ICT third-party risk registers, resilience testing, incident classification, and the register-of-information work every EU financial entity now has to keep current.

Why now DORA has applied since 17 January 2025 and the reporting burden is ongoing, not a one-off project. Regulated firms in Dublin, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London are staffing it permanently.

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10 weeks·2 briefs·No code required

Sustainability Reporting Analyst

Double materiality assessment, data collection across a messy supply chain, assurance-ready disclosure, and the spreadsheet discipline that keeps an auditor calm.

Why now Corporate sustainability reporting has moved from marketing into audited financial disclosure, which changes who companies hire and what standard the work is held to.

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Track 02

Build and ship

Production systems, not notebooks and tutorials

16 weeks·4 briefs·Requires some Python

AI Engineer: Agents in Production

Retrieval that survives real documents, evaluation suites, guardrails, failure modes, cost and latency per task, and monitoring once it is live. Deliberately not a prompting course.

Why now European employers report the shortage bites hardest at production-grade delivery (evals, AI infrastructure, model monitoring and governance) rather than at model building.

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14 weeks·4 briefs·Best entry point

Analytics Engineer

Warehouse modelling, SQL under pressure, dbt, testing, a semantic layer, and documentation a stranger can use. The role that hires when "data analyst" postings are drowning in applicants.

Why now Data and analytics engineering sits near the top of European hiring lists, and the transferable version of the skill set travels across sectors and borders.

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16 weeks·4 briefs·Requires Linux comfort

Platform & Reliability Engineering with FinOps

Infrastructure as code, CI/CD that people trust, observability, incident response, and the cloud bill, because being able to cut spend defensibly is what gets a junior platform hire approved.

Why now Cloud adoption in Europe is mature; the thin layer is second-order skills: platform engineering, reliability, FinOps, data platform operations.

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16 weeks·4 briefs·Security fundamentals first

Cloud Security Engineer

Identity, network boundaries, secrets, detection engineering, and cloud incident response, mapped to the control frameworks your auditor will name.

Why now Cloud security and incident response are consistently among the hardest European technical roles to fill, and regulatory expectation keeps widening.

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Track 03

The work around the work

Roles that translate between people and systems

10 weeks·3 briefs·Free taster available

Business Analysis in the AI Era

Elicitation, process mapping, and the newer problem: writing requirements and acceptance criteria for systems that behave probabilistically and cannot be specified the old way.

Why now Every AI deployment needs someone who can define done. This is our most common entry point for switchers from teaching, operations, healthcare and finance.

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12 weeks·3 briefs·Some experience needed

Product Management for Regulated Products

Discovery with a compliance constraint, shipping when legal has a veto, and writing the documentation that lets a regulated release actually go out.

Why now AI-augmented product roles are growing while generalist PM hiring is flat. Regulated-domain fluency is what separates the two.

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12 weeks·3 briefs·Clinical background welcome

Clinical & Health Data Foundations

Health data standards, information governance, clinical coding, safe handling, and audit-ready analysis in a public healthcare setting.

Why now Healthcare remains the UK's most acute shortage area, and clinically-literate data people are scarcer still. Strong route for nurses and allied professionals moving sideways.

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6 weeks·2 briefs·Runs alongside any track

Working European: Client Craft

Written English at the level asynchronous work demands, running a call where you disagree with a senior person, scoping, invoicing across borders, and preparing English evidence to B2 standard.

Why now From 8 January 2026 first-time UK Skilled Worker applicants generally need CEFR B2 rather than B1, and remote clients judge you on your writing before anything else.

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Every course runs the same way. Five stages, one of them a no.

Stage 01

Route map

A call about your right to work, your target country, the occupation codes you could realistically land, and what each one requires. Before any payment.

Stage 02 · gate

Readiness gate

A short task at working standard. If you're not ready for a live brief we say so and name the course that comes first. Roughly a third of applicants hear this.

Stage 03

The brief

Two to six weeks of scoped work from a real employer, with real constraints and a deadline nobody moves for you.

Stage 04

Review

A practitioner in your target market marks it against the acceptance criteria. Revisions are normal. Rejection is possible.

Stage 05

Handover

Your exhibit is added to the file, the walkthrough is recorded, and where the client wants to talk to you, we get out of the way.

Not sure which track your route allows?

Start with the route map instead of a course. Fifteen minutes on your right to work, your target country and the occupation codes realistically open to you. Free, and sometimes the answer is that we are not the right people to help.

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