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Relevance of training whilst 'benched'?

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    Relevance of training whilst 'benched'?

    Ok so buy the books, waste your time off by being stuck indoors and as bored as you were when you were billing - but with no cash at the end.

    Then you get your cert or whatever and put it on your cv and the pimps beat a path to your door - or does it not work like that? Does a 1 week course costing a grand not buy you 5 years experience on your cv?

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    Originally posted by Shimano105 View Post
    Ok so buy the books, waste your time off by being stuck indoors and as bored as you were when you were billing - but with no cash at the end.

    Then you get your cert or whatever and put it on your cv and the pimps beat a path to your door - or does it not work like that? Does a 1 week course costing a grand not buy you 5 years experience on your cv?
    Read the book, blag it, put it on your CV then quickly do the exam when you get offered the interview. Works for Logicackcidenturecrapgeminordinary.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #3
      Originally posted by Shimano105 View Post
      Ok so buy the books, waste your time off by being stuck indoors and as bored as you were when you were billing - but with no cash at the end.

      Then you get your cert or whatever and put it on your cv and the pimps beat a path to your door - or does it not work like that? Does a 1 week course costing a grand not buy you 5 years experience on your cv?
      No. It's how you apply it that matters. Depends on the course and qualification though obviously too.
      I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

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        #4
        Buy a dummies book. You never will need more knowledge than that.
        HTH

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          #5
          If it gets you a qualification or recognisable certificate, it may tick a box on the shortlister's check sheet.
          Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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            #6
            Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
            If it gets you a qualification or recognisable certificate, it may tick a box on the shortlister's check sheet.
            Put it on the CV anyway
            Nobody asks for certificates

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              #7
              Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
              Nobody asks for certificates
              My last clientco started doing that and it turned out that a very large well known consultancy that does a lot of stuff for the UK and NL governments couldn’t even provide half the certificates that were claimed on their people’s CVs, including people who’d been permatractoring at clientco for 2 years or more.
              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #8
                Originally posted by Andy2 View Post
                Put it on the CV anyway
                Nobody asks for certificates
                Some qualifications can be verified online, Prince2 is a classic example.

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                  #9
                  Learn a language

                  Originally posted by Shimano105 View Post
                  Ok so buy the books, waste your time off by being stuck indoors and as bored as you were when you were billing - but with no cash at the end.

                  Then you get your cert or whatever and put it on your cv and the pimps beat a path to your door - or does it not work like that? Does a 1 week course costing a grand not buy you 5 years experience on your cv?
                  Learn a language
                  No one asks for a language certificate and it could be useful for future project

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
                    Some qualifications can be verified online, Prince2 is a classic example.
                    Easy if you're called John Smith or something equally common though
                    Every Saint has a past, Every Sinner a future"


                    Originally Posted by Pogle
                    I wasnt really into men at the time - IYKWIM

                    HTH

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