has anyone heard of this company?

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got a job offer today from a company called dynamics IT (first result in google)

the thing is, i dont actually get teh job untill I complete the MCSA for which i have to pay them £250, and pay for the exams myself.
If i get the cert within 3 months of paying them, I will have a garanteed job, if not they cant garantee it.
They also say if i get it in the time and they dont get me a job they will refund the £250.



Now heres my questions -

firstly, has anyone heard about them before?

is this "you must buy our cert course before we give you a job" thing normal?

have you noticed that their speach changes from "we will give you a job" to "we will get you a job" - disturbs
me somewhat that they cant say catagorically who will be employing me, but maybe they are just bad at grammer?


I will ring them tomorrow and try and get a few answers, I just wanted a few opinions about whether or not all this is normal or not :P

 

I would run away from a company that required me to buy anything from them before they'd hire me.

 

Forget all about them. They sound like they're trying to sell you the old 'we're not a training provider, we're a recruitment company... but you have to complete the expensive training we provide you before we'll get you a job' routine. It is all, quite frankly, bollocks.

 

There has been numerous thread topics of this sort in the past and quite frankly recently. I would adhere to the advise and stir clear of this company.

If you want to learn go the self study route, get the books and a CBT video plus a server box. Install VMWare Server or VirtualPC to get lab hands on practice experience, both software are free.

Best wishes

 

is it even possible to complete the MCSA in 3 months if im working on it full time?

 

looking at some others in this forum - yes - Qs, Darkstar, craigie - but they have a large amount of experience. For someone who isn't working knees and elbows deep in system administration I'd have to say "no" to your question.

 

humph - I was afraid of that, At this point I would just give up with the IT idea but its equally hard getting a job in any other profession so ill carry on regardless :P (not even tescos will have me as a shelf stacker :P )

 

Lol, Tesco will reject you because you are overqualified for stacking the shelves!
Good luck.

 

one last question - do microsoft provide official learning material for their exams or do they simply set the exams and nothing more?

 

Microsoft do have 'Official' material - usually found in classrooms.

No better or worse than anything else out there...