of marketing graduates are under-employed, working high-school level jobs five years after graduating.
Australia's Leading Provider of
Digital Marketing Courses
The Next Level Academy is an accredited Australian RTO (3188) delivering professional training across Australia and internationally through classroom and live online learning.
- Demonstrable skills to impress employers
- Learn-by-doing and create a portfolio
- Always instructor-led, live feedback
Our Purpose is to Right a Wrong: Degrees ≠ Jobs
Universities have failed to prepare their marketing graduates for marketing jobs because they have got most things wrong. They have the wrong people teaching the wrong things in the wrong way. The only right way to learn marketing is to acquire the right digital marketing skills by watching industry professionals show you how each task is done, then repeating these tasks yourself with their guidance and feedback.
of marketing professionals have a marketing degree (drops to 13% at senior level).
of marketing is digital marketing; yet, it only accounts for 7% of marketing units at most universities.
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We Believe that the ‘WHY’ shapes the ‘WHAT’ and the ‘HOW’
In this video, our founder Kenneth Yap explains the reason he established Next Level Academy and the difference he is hoping to make.
Our Purpose
The Next Level Academy was founded for one purpose: To help marketing students everywhere close the widening gap between what they must learn for the job and what they were being taught. The problem and impact was too big for us to ignore: (1) So much human potential is wasted because too many graduates are taught the wrong things by the wrong people, and they miss out all the benefits of a marketing career. (2) So much productivity is lost because employers have little choice but to bear the burden of additional time and cost on recruiting, training, and managing employees to make up for their skill gap.
Our Vision
We envision a future where The Next Level Academy will be the Number 1 choice in the world for training and development because we are a marketplace of skills and talent development for both professionals and employers, with the range of training topics and options wide enough to be your lifelong career partner.
Our Values
Our four values guide everything we do, every decision or policy we make, every product or service we design, and every market we enter. If it doesn't sit right with us, we simply won't do it.
- We value training and development over ‘education’, just as we value application more than theory. This is why we hire trainers who can ‘walk the talk’ and share their experience having ‘been there, done that’.
- We value quality over quantity, just as we value results over promises. This is why we would prefer to have very high graduate employment rates, even if it means that our training is tougher and our classes are smaller.
- We value effort over achievement, just as we value progress over perfection. This is why we train only those who are ready to improve themselves today.
- We value mentorship over lectureship, just as we value wisdom over knowledge. This is why our trainers spend twice as long demonstrating, observing, and guiding as they do speaking.