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Placement season is close and your resume still has no project on it.
Finish with three pieces of work you can demo in an interview.
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Perplexity Mastery — Research With Sources You Can Check
Replace half your search-engine time with sourced answers, learn to read the citation before the claim, and run research that produces a brief you can defend.
- 4 weeksEstimated time
- 4Modules
- 15Lessons
- 3Projects
- YesCertificate
- FreePrice
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Who this course is for
Three people take this course. The work is the same; the reason is different.
Fresh graduates
You have the degree, but the job ads ask for proof of skill.
Build a portfolio before the next hiring round, not after it.
Career switchers
You are experienced elsewhere, new to this field, and starting from zero.
Learn the vocabulary and ship one published project that proves the switch.
Proof, not notes
What you will build
Every module ends in something finished. These are the pieces you leave with.
Pick a company you have
genuinely applied to and build a two-page, fully sourced brief: what they do, the last year of news, the competitors, the risks, and the three things you will be expected to know.
Skills used AI Agents
Portfolio project
A one-page market brief on
one role with every claim sourced
Skills used AI Agents
Portfolio project
A study collection for one
exam subject with the ten best sources in it
Skills used AI Agents
Portfolio project
The brief
Your final project
A study collection for one
exam subject with the ten best sources in it
- Write down, in one sentence, what the finished thing does and who it is for.
- Build it with the tools this course taught. A borrowed project cannot be explained in an interview.
- Run it from a clean start on another machine, and fix whatever breaks.
- Publish it, and put the link at the top of your resume's project section.
What changes
What you will be able to do
Not definitions to recite — tasks you can open a laptop and complete.
Roles this supports Research and analysis support roles · Journalism, content and editorial assistant roles where sourcing matters · Any fresher job that starts with "find out about X"
- Replace a search session with a sourced answer and check the source
- Use focus modes and date filters to get the answer you actually need
- Build a collection of sources for one piece of real work
- Tell the difference between a primary source and something that copied it
- Run one API call that keeps the citations with the answer
- Produce a two-page, fully sourced brief on a real company
The syllabus
Course curriculum
4 modules · 15 lessons. Open a module to see its outcome and lesson titles.
Module 1 Foundations — what Perplexity is Meet the tool, get an account, and learn the screen before you learn the prompting.
- 01 Meet Perplexity — what it is and who makes it Free preview
- 02 Signing in: what is free, what is paid, and what you actually need
- 03 The screen: where every control lives
Deliverable 3 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 2 Prompting — getting a real answer How Perplexity reads text, the four-part prompt, your own work, and what to do when the answer is wrong.
- 04 How Perplexity reads what you type
- 05 The four-part prompt: role, task, context, format
- 06 Perplexity for the work you actually have
- 07 When the answer is wrong: iterate instead of restarting
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 3 Files, tools and your own data Documents and tables, Citations, focus modes and collections, the API, and one boring task automated.
- 08 Files, tables and long documents
- 09 Citations, focus modes and collections — Perplexity's own feature
- 10 The Perplexity API and your first script
- 11 Automate one boring task with Perplexity
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Module 4 Career, projects and honesty A finished portfolio project, the privacy rules, the limits, and the Perplexity AI certification paths.
- 12 Build the portfolio project: an interview research brief for one real company
- 13 Ethics, privacy and what never to paste
- 14 Limits, hallucinations and how to check
- 15 Get certified: the official Perplexity AI paths
Deliverable 4 practice tasks, one per lesson
Lesson explanations, worked examples and practice tasks are in the learning player, not on this page — so you can read the syllabus without scrolling through the whole course.
How the course works
Every lesson follows the same four steps. No passive video playlists.
- 1
Learn the concept
A short explanation in plain English, with the one idea the lesson depends on.
- 2
See a worked example
The same task done end to end, with the reasoning behind each step.
- 3
Complete the practice task
You write it yourself. The task is the lesson; the reading is only the setup.
- 4
Build and publish a project
Each module ends in work you can open, explain and attach to an application.
Way2Fresher Academy
Courses written for the fresher hiring market — not translated from a bootcamp built for another country.
- Plain English Every explanation is written to be read once, slowly, by someone new to the field.
- Project-first A practice task in every lesson and a project at the end of every module.
- No paywall The full syllabus, all lessons and the certificate are free. Nothing is held back for a paid tier.
3Portfolio projects
15Lessons
The work is the proof
A fresher interview cannot assess a certificate. It can assess a project you can open, explain and change on the spot — which is why every course here ends in one.
- A finished project brief with an evaluation checklist
- A shareable repository, dashboard or case study
- A certificate that records the work, once every lesson is done
Frequently asked questions
The answers that decide whether this is the right six weeks.
Is this better than a search engine?
For a question with an answer, usually, because you get the answer and the sources in one step. For browsing, exploring or settling an argument with your own judgement, a search engine is still the right tool.
Can I cite it in an assignment?
Cite the source it gave you, after you have opened it — never the tool. Most institutions treat an AI answer with no primary source as an unsourced claim, which is exactly what it is.
What is the paid plan for, then?
More searches on the deeper modes and file uploads. If you research for more than an hour a day, you will notice; for a fortnight of interview prep, the free tier is enough.
What will I have at the end of this course?
Three things: an interview research brief for one real company, a saved set of prompts you wrote and tested on your own work, and a Way2Fresher certificate naming the course. Perplexity AI also publishes its own learning material for the tools it makes, and the rail on this course page links to it.
Is the course really free?
Yes. Every lesson, practice task and project brief on this page is free to read, and no card is required. A free account only saves your progress and unlocks the certificate.
Do I need coding experience?
No. This course is written for beginner learners and every lesson starts from the tool itself. If you can use a browser and a file, you can start lesson one today.
How long will it take?
About 4 weeks. The course holds 15 lessons, each built around one practice task, so the calendar depends on how many sessions you can keep each week.
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