IT Experience but no qualifications

If you have been working for a while, you may have lots of experience in using IT but no formal recognition of your skills.

If this describes your situation your may want to have your skills formally recognised in order to improve your CV either to improve your retention opportunities or to improve your CV.

We are a centre for OCR (CLAiT series and ITQ), BCS (ECDL) and a Microsoft Academy so what ever your it needs we can provide the solution. You will find more information about the options here.

As part of our flexible approach we offer fast tracking to people in your position. This involves the following:

Skills assessment and good practice check - FREE
Discussion as to most appropriate qualification(s) - FREE
If required training to fill any gaps
Practice assessments

The following courses may suit you:

Those requiring in-depth knowledge of specific IT applications should consider Microsoft Office Specialist (Office 2003) or Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (Office 2007). These are globally recognised industry standards.

For Secretarial or PA roles requiring IT skills you should consider an ITQ and Text Processing qualifications.

For Administrator roles using IT you might want to consider the OCR Administration and ITQ qualifications, both of which are available at levels 1, 2 and 3.

For combined Administrator and Secretarial roles you might want the OCR Administration and ITQ, at levels 1, 2 or 3.

Training

All our courses are flexible and based on taking you from your current skill level to where you want or need to be. We do not waste your time teaching you what you already know. This makes it difficult to estimate the time you will require but we ask you to call in to discuss your plans and your present skills and we will then give you an estimated time scale and cost. Fee scales are shown elsewhere on the website.

We recommend coming in for at least 1 session of 2 hours a week. If you are a beginner you may wish to start with one hour sessions. If you want to fast track then you can come in more frequently.

Our fees are designed to make our courses accessible so please call us to discuss your future.

LINKS careers and personal development can provide CV advice and career guidance.