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Hello folks

I'm 20, have been messing about for too long and want to get into IT. My background is school, college (HNC Computing - what a waste of time!) and Uni, although I dropped out.

I spend far too many hours a day sitting here and I'd like to think I'm fairly skilled and knowledgable when it comes to computers, but that doesn't count for much when I'm looking for a job!

I was looking at Advent's training regime - £4750, A+ up to MCSE and the bloke that came round made it sound great, but I'm glad I found these forums. I'm now planning to do the A+ and hopefully, if that goes well and I enjoy it, move on to the N+ and higher.

I got 68% on a Hardware test for the A+ just giving it a go out of interest, so hopefully with a little study I'll sail through. Haven't tried the OS yet, so we'll see about that

Cheers for having me

 

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Greetings

Wise decision on the self study route, and the A+ is the best place to start.

Best of luck.

 

Hi there. good choice with the advent

 

I dont think he has went with Advent
Welcome to CF!

 

Welcome. Good to meet you.

 

Hi there and welcome

 

Thanks for the welcome guys

I'm not going the advent route, but I've got a couple of questions about it. About the job guarantee, the timeframe for a job and certs you're required to have passed before they get you a job.

I was looking in the Training & Dev subforum and saw people mention the job guarantee with Advent. I was wondering how that could be seeing as the advent guy I spoke to said they didn't guarantee, but tried their best to get you a job. Pressuring him for some figures, he said 70% of people got a job whilst they were training, although I'd assume that could be years what with the amount of certs they're putting you through and no set time to complete.

Their figures sound great - 98% of people pass the course, etc, but it sounds as though those figures don't include people who've stopped after x amount of certs and didn't complete the whole thing, if you see what I'm saying?

Anyway, I'm a cynic. Self study does seem like the better option for me, just now.

 

Im with Advent myself, and im happy with them at the moment, although i would have went the self study route, if id known about it. The workshops that ive done to date are basic, and not hands on enough. But maybe that will change as the course gets harder. As for the job thing, i havent got one from them yet, but i do know other people who have been offered interviews etc.

 

Welcome!

 

Well Done for Choosing the self study

Good luck

 

I am not 100% sure about Advent because I haven't used them but most training companies will give you a nice piece of paper that states you passed their course - this means nothing apart from you have completed their course, their course certificate is not recognised outside of their organisation.

Microsoft MCP exams are taken at either a Prometric or VUE testing centre - these are the real exams that the course attempts to prepare you for - in reality a lot of further *self study* is usually required to pass the actual real exam. Hence you can find yourself, like I did, in a situation where you have done four courses without having sat a single Microsoft exam. They (training companies) schedule the courses when they can get enough bums on seats, they do not schedule courses dependant on your training status and the real exams that you have sat.

[Edit] Hi and welcome to CF

 

yea i had the some guy from advent come over too. i signed all the documents and that and the course starts in 2 weeks. lucky i found this forum 2 cancel it