Offshore training

**TheBigD** · 10 March 2009, 16:02

Never heard of them myself, but I had a quick searc on this forum and there's a couple of people who have, and seem to be fairly impressed with them.

**pmeswani** · 10 March 2009, 17:00

Originally posted by Slumdog View Post

Has anybody used this company based in India.

http://www.koenig-solutions.com/

Being on the bench I am thinking of pursuing this avenue to get trained into smething different in the meantime.

Any positives/feedback from the forum on using this training provider? (Apart from some warm weather)

When I mentioned this site to a cousin of mine a few years back, I was warned off them. The impression I was given was that they teach you to memorise things, and not learn things, in order to pass the exams.

I want to do a bootcamp of some sort, but would probably look at Firebrand instead and pay more money for it.

**alreadypacked** · 10 March 2009, 17:45

I would say for most training, you should be sure of landing a role soon after you have completed the training, otherwise you will forget most of what you have learnt if you don't use it. i.e. waste of money.

**DimPrawn** · 10 March 2009, 17:47

It won't turn you into a Slumdog Millionaire if that's what you're hoping.

HTH

**Slumdog** · 10 March 2009, 17:50

To land a role asap after training would be of the utmost urgency. Currently I'm in the programming/embedded field and was thinking of training in Cisco, after doing some of my own basic research into Cisco.

I have a good IT understanding and so would hope that moving into Cisco would not pose too many problems, unless anyone thinks otherwise

**pmeswani** · 10 March 2009, 19:41

Originally posted by Slumdog View Post

To land a role asap after training would be of the utmost urgency. Currently I'm in the programming/embedded field and was thinking of training in Cisco, after doing some of my own basic research into Cisco.

I have a good IT understanding and so would hope that moving into Cisco would not pose too many problems, unless anyone thinks otherwise

Doing a certification with the hope to land a contract role in a new field will be, frankly, pointless. I don't know many companies that would take on a contractor purely on the grounds of freshly obtained certification and little or no experience. If you want to into Cisco / Security, take a permie role at entry level and work your way up and then come back to contracting. During the time during permiedom, take the Cisco certification path and use that to your advantage in the permie world. If someone knows differently (in todays market), then I stand corrected.

**the_duderama** · 10 March 2009, 19:45

Originally posted by Slumdog View Post

I have a good IT understanding and so would hope that moving into Cisco would not pose too many problems, unless anyone thinks otherwise

I would avoid the Cisco stuff at the moment if you don't have expereince. I've got 7+ years and whilst i have a gig at the moment there isn't much out there. Rates for CCIE have dropped from 700 per day to around 400 and that is the top tier qualification (£1.5k to sit the exam alone).

The only real growth in networking is VOIP, and you would need to sit 7 exams (CCNA, CCNA Voice, CCVP - 5 exams) to get a decent rate, plus many won't touch you without experience. You would probably find it quite easy to get an entry level perminant role with the CCNA though (20-25k pa).

**reddog** · 10 March 2009, 20:05

I think part of the problem with Cisco qualifications is that practically every further eduction college in the country offers the CCNA course. This has lead to a kind of MCSE-ification of the qualification i.e. tons of people about with the cert and little or no experience.

Sadly if you just did the CCNA a 20-25K permie job sounds about right at the moment

**Slumdog** · 10 March 2009, 21:03

guess, i'll have to wait for slumdog millionaire, at least for the moment. Cheers!

Offshore training