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How many courses should you do whilst in full time work?

  • 15-02-2014 11:49am
    #1
    Wanderer2010
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    Ok, so I was chatting to a few workmates recently about doing extra courses (evening, part time etc) while still in full time employment and the general consensus was that its a good idea to have at least ONE job-related course under your belt per year. The training budget at work is very low and they always promise courses each year but they never deliver them. I have 7 years experience in my current field and during the first few years I did 2 evening courses that were personal and nothing to do with my job (cooking and psychology) but then I thought it might be nice to get a few extra skills so I have done the following courses:

    Advanced Word and Excel, First Aid, Health and Safety in the Workplace, Manual Handling and the updated ECDL. I feel confident that this extra knowledge will serve me well but I wonder do employers take more notice of experience in a job rather than extra courses done? Im considering doing a masters by evening this year and am torn between whether any of these extra skills are taken seriously by employers. Opinions?


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  • #2
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    It depends on the course and it depends on your goals.

    I did a post grad at Stanford by distance learning. It wasn't very interesting, and the lecture quality was poor, but it gets people's attention in an interview. The course is related to statistics and data mining. My background is maths and computer science so it's not totally unrelated to my career.

    I also did a masters at night, but that was just for a laugh. It was a computer science masters so also related to my career.

    Personally I think anything which differentiates you from everyone else is a good thing. I do not think first aid courses or ECDL accomplish this. Obviously it's great you did these and they are useful, but they don't really tell me anything about you other than you don't find computers intuitive and you can give me the heimlich.


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