Training in your current job?

my advice would be to ask the manager to provide more relevant documentation or training sessions if you feel you are not at the same level as the others. Can't hurt to ask? unless you already have?
 
I've been in post 6 months, been told I have a personal budget of £8000 to spend, unfortunately they're wanting me to take Prince2 and ITIL training as a priority when I'd rather be going for more technical stuff!

Last job with the council was awful, £400 worth in 8 years..
 
You sound like you're whining now! Just do something (sensible) about it. You've got enough advice here but it's starting to sound like you want more money just because you want.more.money. Doesn't work like that I'm afraid!
 
Pulsedriver said:
On my last job I was earning £13,500, i'd been in the job 3 years, yet every new person came in on £15,999 and they would NOT adjust my wage no matter what I tried or did.

It got worse, when others came in on £17,000+ with no experience either!
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You'd have to presume they don't value you in which case find another job and resign. If it does turn out they do value you and were just being tight then you'll quickly find they'll boost your pay to match your job offer and try to persuade you to stay. If not then clearly there was little point in hanging around so crack on with the new job.

FWIW someone on another team in my place got a significant rise when he found out his colleagues were on a lot more than him and threatened to resign.
 
Kami said:
I've been in post 6 months, been told I have a personal budget of £8000 to spend, unfortunately they're wanting me to take Prince2 and ITIL training as a priority when I'd rather be going for more technical stuff!
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Source the material yourself and sit the exams then spend your budget on courses you really want.
 
Do quite well at my place, over the last 12 months I have gained CISSP, CISA, MCSE Security+ , Prince 2 Practitioner and am studying for Cisco CCNA and Check Point CCSE. They are pretty good here as long as you can justify why the qualification is useful but for the CISSP and CISA I studied myself and just asked them to pay for the exams.

Generally I think if you show you are willing to study off your own back rather than just acting like you deserve training then an employer is much more likely to want to keep you and hence keep you happy with training.
 
lol, this thread reminds me of when i started working.

I was here for 2 years in a similar situation, but then i gave my notice in and suddenly everything opened up. Since then i have done Microsoft, Cisco and Foundation Degree and have led many internal projects and got to know the systems much better.

The only negative point is work doesn't take any interest in my training :( and i am not sure where it is going. Been here 6 years now and the cycle is coming around. We are having new ERP software which is "nothing to do with me, just sort out the ******** infrastructure".
 
Training here is pretty appalling, we don't get any time off for it, even if we're paying out of our own pockets.

I learnt a while back that this company doesn't value it's 'lower' employees, and only serves to look after it's directors.
 
Training here is also fantastic (West Midlands Ambulance Service) we're requiered to re-qualify our Emergency Medical Dispatch qualification every year.. but also we have the opportunity to go out with crews etc :)
 
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