WORKFORCE FUTUREPROOF & DATA LITERACY
The time is now. The first big leap in your Data journey starts here.
Evaluate Workforce Capacity And Build New Capability
What is happening globally now might be just a coincidence BUT it fast-forwards the sense of urgency to expedite digital transformation as a whole along with workforce data readiness during and post-crisis.
Industry 4.0 is about to change the traditional business model, if it hasn’t already. Hence, it is no longer an option for businesses to run based on people’s current skills without preparing them to be ready for the inevitable digital change. The workforce needs to let go of repetitive and obsolete tasks and instead adopt the smartest way to get a job done. Efficiency is key to the new business.
Organizations need to future-proof the workforce to have a sustainable business
According to Future of Jobs survey 2018 by World Economic Forum, by 2022*;
*Source: Future of Jobs survey 2018, WEF
Take The Journey To Futureproof The Workforce
Our Augmented Strategy and tools help business leaders like you achieve your mission-critical priorities and position your organization for sustainability and growth by ensuring people-readiness.

Data Driven Organization™
Identify & align organization to become Data Driven
Build a Digital Competitive Advantage with Data Driven Organization™. Benchmark capabilities against best practices. Identify and align organization towards becoming a Data Driven Organization.

Talentspy Enterprise
Evaluate workforce capacity and build new capability
Workforce capacity and capability building for your business needs. This journey starts with evaluating organizational skills inventory on data literacy to optimize resources with appropriate upskilling.

Virtual Workshop
Join a program catered for Middle & Senior Leaders
Join a virtual classroom with Prof. Dennis of Harvard Business School in a program catered for Top & Middle management and embark on a journey to futureproof your workforce Data Literacy.
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Overcome The Challenges To Achieve The Expected Business Outcome
Our Workforce Augmented strategy looks into workforce capacity and capability building for business needs to help you overcome the challenges to achieve the expected business outcome.
What this journey would look like:
Understand the current organizational Data Literacy skills inventory; Formulate learning journey based on the identified skills gaps; Optimize upskilling ROI through application of skills on use case and pain points determined earlier from the key strategic initiates; Using a triple loop feedback and assessment method (TalentSpy) to enhance the learning experience.
Create a Center of Excellence For Data Literacy That Addresses Business Needs
Address business needs with CADS Workforce Augmented Strategy. Our Talentspy Enterprise platform capability includes;
Workforce Remodeling
- Performance, retention & succession plan
- Assess to verify Data Analytics and AI capabilities of talents
- Identify Skills Gap
- Learning & Development roadmap
Talent Acquisition
AI-powered Talent Matching through internal & external talent marketplace, connecting people with the right Data Literacy skills to relevant jobs.
- Improve employee engagement and talent retention
- Improve data literacy and close competency gap
- Digitizing operations and automating process
CADS has trained over 2,000 data professionals to become Data Analyst and Data Scientist. Over 240 young Data Stars were trained and placed at various leading organizations.
Ready To Take This Journey?

Talentspy Enterprise empowers organizations to
- Identify skills gap in Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Identify the right talent for the skill needed internally
- Develop talent with customized learning roadmap/ training program
- Monitor performance and identify the best performer
- Perform Job matching within the company or externally for new hiring
- Identify the right talent in Data, Analytics and AI skills for hiring
Learning Paths
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Upcoming Virtual Workshop & Classroom
Turn a 4-hour board meeting into a 30 minute one. Learn to expect more from presenters in terms of story, visual, impact, and insight.
This program is for Senior Leaders & Board Members.
Fee:
$ 350 USD per person or
$ 2,800 USD per group up to 25 pax per session or
$ 3,500 USD per session up to 20 pax (In-house Training for Organizations)
Learn the fundamental skills to mine valuable business insights from huge pools of data within an organization. with Associate Enterprise Data Analyst (AEDA) – 15 day program.
Upcoming session: 10 August – 11 September
This program is best-suited for Business Intelligence Analysts looking to maximise the potential of their work.
Fee: $ 1,400 USD per person
Future-proof your skills and career in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence
Join thousands of other professionals with CADS Certification. Strengthen your learning, earning and career potential by enrolling in an expertise-driven Big Data Analytics course, or verify your data literacy skills and get certified with CADS Certification. Stand apart from competing candidates in a competitive job market.

3 hours Online Course
Big Data Analytics 101
The first big leap in your Data journey starts here. Big Data Analytics 101 provides a comprehensive introductory overview of Big Data and its technologies.

Online Exam
Skill Verification
Just took an online course? Verify your skills. Ensure that your professional skill set and expertise are reflected as accurately as possible.

Online Exam
CADS Certification
An industry-recognized, globally respected qualification in Data Analytics & AI. Join thousands of other data professionals with CADS Certification.
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Learning outcome
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Understand the emergence and importance of Big Data Analytics
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Understand the tools, technologies, architectures and framework that are used in Big Data Analytics
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Apply new understanding in the planning stage of Big Data projects
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Ability to determine the viability of any Big Data projects
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Gain insight into how large organizations have solved business problems, reduce costs, enhance customer loyalty & experience, effectively gaining competitive advantage against their competitors, using Big Data Analytics
Big Data Analytics 101
3 hours online course

Join over 1,000 learners who have enrolled since March 2020. Take the first big leap in your Data journey.
This course provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the concept of Big Data and its technologies, architectures and management. Participants can reap the benefits of this course when planning Big Data projects and understanding the technology involved using different types of analytics such as descriptive analytics, predictive analytics and machine learning.
In-depth review will be given to actual use cases of five large international organizations on how analytics were used to provide insights from various data sources.
Earn certificate upon completion of this program.
Course duration: 3 hours
Course fee: USD50 USD15 (limited time only)

Skill Verification
Put your data skills to the test with CADS 30-technical-skills library. Discover your Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence skill level in 60 minutes.
Verification Fee: USD100 USD25 (limited time only)

Know where you stand
Know your strength and see where you stand

Identify your skill gap
Find your weakness to fill the gap

Customized learning roadmap
Get a customized learning roadmap based on your skill level

Verify in 60 minutes
Discover your skill level in 60 minutes.

CADS Certification
Join thousands of other professionals with CADS Certification. Choose from a variety of certifications that any respected Data Professional and Practitioner needs to land their dream job and impress employers.
Machine Learning
Machine Learning is the gateway to Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. If you know how to train a model with supervised learning algorithms like linear regression and classification, we say prove it!

Machine Learning (Combo)
Exam fee: USD50

Unsupervised Machine Learning
Exam fee: USD50

Supervised Machine Learning
Exam fee: USD50
Python
Python has become a key driver in the explosion of big data analytics and machine intelligence across most industries. Given its versatility and applicability to data analysis, it has become the tool of choice for most industries. This certification will require knowledge in data types, collections, function and control structures.

Python (Combo)
Exam fee: USD40

Python for Analytics - Basic
Exam fee: USD40

Python for Analytics - Advanced
Exam fee: USD40
R for Analytics
As one of the world’s top data science tools, R provides a robust environment for tabulating, analysing and visualising data. Demonstrate your mastery of the programming language that has become a powerhouse for business intelligence and big data analytics. This certification entails familiarity with different data types and their operation, connecting relational databases through R and results reporting in Markdown and Shiny.

R for Analytics
Exam fee: USD40
Relational Database Design & SQL
Relational databases store just about everything. They have become essential for modern business. The ability to design efficient relational systems and query them for data is an in-demand skill that can take you anywhere. CAD SQL and Relational database design certifications certify and test your knowledge in SQL; statements, syntax, join statements; as well as database structure and DDL. If you’re whole life is normalized, show us.

RDD (Combo)
Exam fee: USD45

Relational Database Design
Exam fee: USD45

SQL Essential
Exam fee: USD45
Statistics
Statistics are changing the face of business; allowing greater degrees of accurate decision making with less resources and less time. Knowledge of sampling, probability theory, distributions, and graphical representations will be at the core of the data science revolution. CADS joint certification (Descriptive and Inferential statistics) certifies conceptual mastery of statistical analyses. If you have 95% confidence that your mean is within the 95-99th percentile of test takers, get certified today.

Statistics (Combo)
Exam fee: USD45

Descriptive Statistics
Exam fee: USD45

Inferential Statistics
Exam fee: USD45
CADS Skill Verification & Certification Process

Step 1 - Select Certification or Skill Exam
Select a certification that works for you.

Step 2 - Make Payment
Complete your payment. We accept credit card payment via Stripe.

Step 3 - Select Test Date
Upon completion of payment, you will be redirected to a page to book your test date. Select a test date that works best for you. All tests are available on Monday to Friday at 12.00 pm (GMT +8).

Step 4 - Receive an Invite
You will receive an invitation to your exam through TalentSpy on your selected date at 12.00 pm (GMT +8).

Step 5 - Official Results
For certification, your result will be available at Talent Spy portal right after you completed the assessment.
For skill verification, your result will be send to your registered email within next 5 business days.

Step 6 - Outcome
For certification, you will receive one of the three passing outcomes below:
a. Bronze passing mark
b. Silver mark, exemplary knowledge in the field
c. Gold mark, expert level knowledge and skill in the field
CADS will send your certificate to your registered email address within next 5 business days of test completion.
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
You will receive an invitation to your exam through TalentSpy on your selected date at 12.00 pm (GMT +8) and you will have 24 hours to complete the exam. Upon commencement of the exam, you will 60 minutes to complete the skill verification, 20 minutes to complete certification.
TalentSpy is a conceptual framework to help users explore the various data science roles and to uncover their own data science profile type.
Yes you can. But, you are only eligible to do so 1 month after a previous attempt. You are welcome to sit for a different exam.
The CADS is not responsible for technical failures such as lack of internet connectivity etc. If there is a failure within TalentSpy certification, contact certification@thecads.com ; If there is a failure within TalentSpy skill verification, contact skillverification@thecads.com ; and an alternative time can be scheduled. Expect a response between 9am and 5pm GMT +8 the following business day and include your confirmation number. Best practise for examination day includes taking the exam in a quiet place with a secure internet connection and after a good night’s rest.
TalentSpy is not configured for Internet Explorer and smart phone. Test can be completed using the following browsers on desktop;
- Chrome
- Safari
- Mozilla Firefox
Yes. However, requests for withdrawal will not be eligible for a refund if received less than 48hrs before the scheduled testing time. Rescheduling must be requested at least 24 hrs prior to the scheduled testing date. Both/either request should be emailed to certifications@thecads.com and a response should be expected between 9am and 5pm +8 GMT.
Each module exam tests different essential skills for a Data Professional and thus each certification is priced differently, though the range is between USD40 and USD80.
CADS certification exams are multiple choice and each question is selected from large pool of exam questions created and vetted by our in house team of data professionals and instructors. Incorrect answers are penalized -.25 points. Please be aware if you are trying to understand your exam score.
CADS Certifications are valid for 3 years. The fields of Data Science and Data Analytics are rapidly changing and our requirements for certification does too.
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