Computeach Courses

[Jonnyvodka]

I am currently considering doing an online Computeach course to gain some IT skills to allow me to change career. Can anyone tell me if these courses are beneficial to finding you employment in IT and if the qualifications that you achieve are of any merit? any information of theses courses would be brilliant. Thanks in advance

[stoo_pid]

Have a look through these links before you part with any money

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[RogerMellie]

Hi Jonny,

I'm an IT contractor of over 10 years experience, and in that time must have had contact with 300+ fellow programmers on various projects and lots of companies. Nobody I have ever heard of has come via Computeach. I would not consider hiring anyone from them for my team now, simply because they have no hands on commercial experience straight out of the course - experience counts for everything in IT.

Of course, its a vicious circle - no experience, no job - no job, no experience!

I was a career changer in the same boat as you and must have written 50+ job applications for a trainee position before I even got an interview. I was lucky to find someone (a large FTSE company) who wanted some raw trainees with no experience, so we could learn their way of doing things - the only condition being that if you left within 2 years you had to repay your programming course fees (a few grand back then), which was a deal I took gladly. I apppreciate those openings are few and far between, but they do exist, it is a case of finding them - I also had to relocate 100 miles to do this.

My advice to you would be to do a programming course at your local college, in a language that is commercially viable - look in the IT jobs for what is in demand. Also, is there a possibility you could move into IT with your current employer? I have a good friend who did this, he is now a specialist system tester, has been on �55 an hour for the last few years - not a bad income, considering he left school with few qualifications.

Good luck - with some perseverance you'll get there.