SkillsTrain Reviews from Students

Learning with skills train has given me a new chance of a fantastic career. With the new skills I am learning, I am starting to put into practice around the house. I am also very optimistic about getting a better paid job which is also something I enjoy doing.

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Studying with "SkillsTrain" has been as it says on the name SillsTrain. I got on the SkillsTrain back in 2006 and gained an A+ and N+ and on my way to make CCNA. Their Learning methods were so simple so everyone could jump on the Train. I hope I get in the new job in the New Year, when I finish my CCNA probably in Jan/Feb. Thanks to all at SkillsTrain and have a Nice Xmas and wonderful New Year 2009.

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I started with skills train early this year as a new way to progress my dreams in terms of career. I previously did a course in management which I did complete but got nowhere at all with my career. So I decided to take on a challenge and do something different like IT.

From the moment I took this onboard I stated to see improvements and changes within my job role. I have now been given more tasks to do and am offered a pay rise in this coming year.

I just overwhelmed with the defence that skillstrain is making for my career. If it's a pay rise now while I'm studying I wonder what I would get once I completed this course. I've been more grateful and delighted about this than I have ever been.

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This Christmas I have finally some prospect of achieving what I have always wanted. With the hard work I have put in studying with skills train I have now got 2 IT qualifications and more to follow. I have more than one interview to attend for jobs!! That to me is a wonderful Christmas gift, for ages I worried about where I would go from the position I was in. Just to have the prospect of progress and employers interested in what I can offer is a terrific feeling. Skills Train has provided me with the opportunity to better my life, and I am grateful for that. Studying and working at the same time is hard but worth it. So this Christmas I can look forward to better times ahead. Thanks to the people at Skills Train for this chance, Merry Christmas.

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I had no computer qualifications at all just over a year ago and was temping in various administration roles. I started the CompTIA A+ with Skills Train and after a couple of months managed to get a permanent job in a large computing company involved in company networks. The role started as only admin again but had the promise of moving into the technical side as long as I continued my study. After a while I completed the A+ and continued studying doing the CompTIA N+, and as promised my job has moved into the technical side with a good pay rise. I've had this job a couple of months now and am using in practice what I'm learning from the study. The promise at the moment from the company is for me to learn this role inside out, and the salary will increase every few months until next October when I should know the job completely and be earning £10,000 more than now. As for the study I will finish my N+ and have already agreed with Skills Train to do the CCNA and CCNP, so my career will be going up and up. This is all thanks to Skills Train.

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Being with skills train this Xmas has made I think about my own job. Which the job that I aim in now is not going to get me any wear fast i.e. not up the ladder and when I do it will not be much more. As sales assistance supervisor only gets 40p hour more and trainee manger gets double my wage but has workloads more hours early and late nights and most weekend. I have also taken up a course in retail GNVQ and during the week I also only weekday first aider. Being with online train gave me the encouragement in need to go get this other two courses. So it thanks to online train that which basically help me plan out what I going to do in my own career. Also doing something I love working with computers and doing something with my own hands.

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This Christmas going to be better than the last because this year I managed to follow a study programme that will make eventually sit for my exams unlike last year where I was procrastinating, Thanks to the Skills Train Study Programme.

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Skills train have enhanced my life style, after passing my A+, N+ exam, I got a job with BT as 1st line support role, along with many job offers, which is really a big achievement for me, thanks to skills train, I am currently doing my work on MCSA and I am seeing my bright future already,
Thanks to skills train once again

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Before starting my course with Skills train I had worked in various warehouses going nowhere fast , at the beginning of this year I decided not to wait till the end of my course to find a job but to look right away as my partner was expecting my first born child in July of this year.
And with the credit crunch and house prices soaring we needed a 3 bedroomed house straight away so a pay rise was needed urgently.

In May I was rewarded with my studying to get a job as a Network administrator at a manufacturing firm with a bigger pay packet,which enabled us to get on the property ladder.
Thus going to make this a brilliant Christmas in our new family home all thanks to Skills train.

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Over the past years I have been studying since successfully completing my A+ Certification, I have been selected for the role of Head Technician and manager of an IT company . This has unfortunately taken me away from studying more of the skillstrain course, but if it was not for this course I am sure I would have not got there.

I was offered this role over colleagues that have been employed in the technician role and have been with the company for many years before myself, however, this achievement was made possible due to the understanding of computer maintenance and repair that I have gained from carrying out courses via Skills Train and my determination to succeed. Very hard for promotion at work. One of my key tasks was to pass my A+ and N+ exams to help put a case forward for promotion. In March 2008 I passed both external exams to certify as an A+ IT Technician and now have the certificate on my wall at work. Then to make things even better I sat and passed my Comptia N+ exam in February and am now awaiting that certificate to go alongside my A+ one. My manager has just said he is going to support my case for promotion and fingers crossed it will be made true these coming months. All of this is down to the course materials received from Skillstrain making the studying a lot easier with excellent course materials.

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This time next year…things will be different, how many years have I said that?, ohh..this time next year, different job, more money, Christmas wont be the worry and financial drain it has been this year and every year! it's always the same, more worry, more of a drain on my finances, choosing presents more on a basis of what I can afford, than on what I would like to buy for that person, its not that people aren't grateful, but for once I would like to see their faces as they realise their present has been bought for them, with them in mind, based on what I want them to have, something that reflects the value they have in my life.

One case in particular is my ten year old son, Christmas for him seems to start earlier every year, and his Christmas list seems to get longer and longer, we tell him every year the same ‘story' if you are a good boy Santa will bring you what you ask for and every year, he seems to note the things he asked for and didn't get, often asking that he doesn't ‘get it', he has been good, which is open to interpretation, yet still he has presents missing and you know kids, the ones that are missing are always the ones he ‘really had his heart set on'. its hard to try to explain to a child, who still believes in father Christmas and the ‘magic' of Christmas when seen through the ‘innocent' eyes of a child, that ‘money is tight' or ‘that's just too expensive' and how often do you find yourself talking about your Christmas's as a child when you received a present you were grateful for it because ‘times were hard', and so I guess the ‘circle' keeps on turning, we couldn't have what we ‘wanted' for Christmas because ‘money was tight' and now , here I am saying exactly the same thing to my child, using the same arguments my parents, no doubt, used on me.

In August this year, I celebrated being 48 years old, I could continue in the job I have, continue living where I do, continue sitting here at my computer every month, looking at what I get paid into my account and then looking at what I have to pay out and wondering why the latter seems to swallow up all my income and then some, or, I could look at ways I can improve myself, improve my job, improve where I live, and improve my income and that's what Skillstrain means to me, so next Christmas, I aim to be in my new career, with my improved income, be living in a home that my family and I will be happy in, and when we give presents next year, people will know, they have been bought based on what they mean to me and not what I can afford.

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I'm looking always forward ,that's why this xmas going to be a better than the last one. future in our hands. can we do it better than the last year , yes we can!!!

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How studying with SkillsTrain is going to make this Christmas even better than the last.

I have always had an interest in computers, so when I received a leaflet through my door about SkillsTrain I thought I would enquire about the courses available. I have always been the sort of person that lacks confidence. I then started to think who am I fooling I'm a 42 year old mother of 3, who is likely to want to employ me at my age so again my lack of confidence kicked in. I received a quick response from SkillsTrain and they arranged for a gentleman to come round to my home for a chat to discuss what my options were and what would be suitable for me to study. A gentleman came round and we discussed what was available he gave me a few tests to do and it was decided that I would take the following courses:
CompTIA A+, CompTIA N+, and MCSE and I thought to start with maybe I was taking on more than I could handle, I was unemployed at the time of starting my course and I knew I at least had to try so when I first started my course I was very surprised at how well I was getting on with it. When I was about a month into my studying I applied for a job in a shoe shop as a sales assistant just working 20 hours a week and was over the moon when I received a phone call to say I was successful and could start work the following week. Studying with SkillsTrain had given me the confidence that I had lacked for so many years. I had been working at the shoe shop for about 6 months and the Manager was sacked for personal reasons and I thought oh well back to being unemployed again but to my surprise I was offered the position of Manager I couldn't believe it, who would of thought it me a Manager, I had been unemployed and a single mum for so many years I just knew it had to be because of SkillsTrain I felt more sure of myself and I knew then that I could achieve anything if I wanted too. I am now nearly at the end of my CompTIA A+ course and doing very well. I have just 2 more TMA's to go I have confidence now that I never thought possible I have made a better Christmas and future for myself and my family all because of the first visit from SkillsTrain, somebody at the beginning had confidence it me which helped me to gain confidence in myself.
Thanks SkillsTrain for changing my life for the better.

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Skills Train is changing my life!!!
Suddenly little things I didn't know have become 2nd nature to me now, and my future prospects are looking much brighter, I have repaired so many computers now and its all thanks to the great training I'm getting from skills train!
Thank you so much guys, looking forward to my first proper job soon! :D

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Knowing that you been working hard completing the course/courses, which will help your career in the right direction, Hence securing your future. Every time you logon the skilltrain web site whether to submit or checking the result of your last submission, you can smile and said to yourself good time a head.
Now that it's near x-mas I can celebrate early for good time a head, more money and time; no worries, wonderful x-mas's ahead.

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Skillstrain has been a great inspiration to me since enrolment. No matter how biting are the global effects of the economic situation on me as an individual, the all-encompassing teaching skills of Skillstrain give me the encouragement and hope to keep up with my studies without any fear or anxiety of dropping out.

In summary, the assurance of the opportunities I have such as Skillstrain excellent teaching skills and aids, pleasant and winsome staff and the flexible periods of studies are always making me to look ahead with great joy for a better tomorrow. This state of excitement is heightened by the forth-coming Christmas and end of year in anticipation of the coming year which is my target to become an IT staff.

In other words, Skillstrain is making this Christmas an exhilarating and a memorable one for me as I believe I will celebrate the next one with a fulfilling career as a competent IT staff fully trained by Skillstrain - What an unrivalled privilege!

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Imagine a life in which there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. Imagine a life in which all doors are all closed to you. Christmas 2007 in China, where I was teaching at a public university. In China, if you have no money you die. End of the story. In China everyone faces dead-ends all their life. That's how the system works.

I'd always told my students ‘never be afraid to try, never be afraid to ask.' Life there is very difficult for them to say the least. Very difficult, just because of the way things are in that society. You have to be there to understand. If you can give them a glimmer of hope for the future, then that counts for a lot; something to aim for and, as I always kept repeatedly telling them, never be afraid to try.

Several of my students were desperately, desperately worried about their future. That's how it is out there; there's nobody to offer help or guidance. Nobody actually cares or tries to help.

I was thinking about my own future, too. My fifty-third birthday was looming on the horizon and it was only another six months before I returned to England to an area normally associated with high unemployment, and I would face the usual get-any-job I could just to make ends meet and scrape together the money to pay those missing national insurance contributions because I had been in China. Off and on, it had been like that for six years.

We're all human; we all worry despite the smiling face we put on for the benefit of others. We all think and look at the future and yes, we become down. We all become beset by fears and worries.

October 2008, and I'd been home for over three months. Despite teaching in China I wasn't qualified to teach in the UK. I'd lost track of the number of jobs I'd applied for. There was one job that sticks in my mind – TEFL - (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) to Chinese students in a north east university. And strangely enough it was a university that I'd once worked on behalf of in China, paid at Chinese rates. Surely, with more than three years classroom teaching experience in Chinese in front of classes of up to 200 and being able to ‘get by' in Chinese, I would be a suitable applicant?

No. Being experienced and able to do something isn't the same as having a recognised qualification to say that you are competent and have reached a minimum level required by employers. That job went to a girl of twenty three who had just completed a part time three month TEFL course. She had the piece of paper to say she was competent.

It's also the sort of time when you look in the job pages of the local papers and think ‘well I could do that' – only you can't, because you haven't got that recognised minimum standard of competency required by employers, irrespective of how good you are. The best self-taught and experienced mechanic in the world would never be offered a job with Rolls Royce. He can't prove how good or competent he is. That's the difference.

It was also around this time that a leaflet was pushed through my letterbox. Perhaps it came with the free local paper. I don't remember. What I do remember when looking at the leaflet is thinking: Yeah, I've seen this all before -training courses that are a complete waste of time and effort. The world is full of them. They're useless; of no value whatsoever.

For whatever reason, a few days later I picked up the leaflet, re-read it, thought about a computing course of sorts, and logged onto the skillstrain website and sent a brief enquiry. A couple of days later I received a phone call from a very pleasant and professional girl in their Bedfordshire headquarters. Surprise, surprise, she wasn't trying to sell me any off the peg course and didn't ask for my bank card details. Even more surprising, somebody would first visit me to discuss and assess which course I was most suited to. This was beginning to sound professional.

Where skillstrain scores – and scores heavily – is that they have their finger on the pulse of the employment market. They know where the shortfalls in skills lie within the employment sector and subject to your own abilities of course, can point you in the right direction. It actually gives a pleasant feeling to know that ahead, in the future, there is a door you can open: there is light at the end of a tunnel. It does your head good, believe me. We're all human. I now have a book called PC Hardware and Maintenance – Essentials, which I am working through. It's my door.

The story doesn't end there. I have three very good friends, one of whom I have known for at least thirty years. For the last twenty five years he has been tinkering with computers, and certainly seems to know everything about them. But he could never get a job doing just that – he has no computing qualifications per se.

The other two friends, well they are in a similar position when it comes to computers. All three are working, but are looking for a career change. They now know all about skillstrain and indeed, have constantly been asking about it. Strange that none of us had heard about skillstrain before. And you only recommend worthwhile things to friends. Right? I have no doubt that in the future – well, I know they will – use skillstrain to open new doors of their own.


My Students all found a door, somewhere along the line. They needed a bit of help, that's all. You know the name written on your door – so give it a push.

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I Have studied for 2 and a half years with skills train and am preparing for my CCNA having passed my network exam a year ago.

My studies and closeness to completing my CCNA has meant that I have changed Jobs and careers and now work on an IT Help Desk for Christians Against Poverty. I've just completed my 2nd week.

Keep reading reading and reading. Take it all in and when you're ready apply for lots of jobs.

I now know it was all worth it!!!!

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This year of studying with skills train has been unbelievable, I could never imagined that when I enrolled last year that my life would change in more ways than I imagined.

When I enrolled last year I explained my situation with the skillstrain advisor. I was undergoing the final stages of my treatment for a brain tumour, and had undergone surgery, radiotherapy and six months of chemotherapy. I wanted something to take my mind off of my situation, and give me some goals for the coming year, and a skillstrain course seemed an ideal way to progress.

For the last year |I have been managing my study with my job (although only part time as I still get very fatigued), and I admit it has been a struggle juggling work, with hospital visits and studying, and in August this year I was taken back into hospital after a relapse.

Throughout this however my concentration on my study has I feel got me through some of these dark times, and waiting for my latest TMA result gave me something to aim for.

My Progress I admit May not be as fast as some other students, because of my situation, however I am soldiering on and look forward to every new part of my course.

My Latest Scans show I'm am in remission and I have every intention of making up for lost time, So Thank you once again Skills Train and here's to 2009!.

Yours faithfully

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I am a domestic helper working 6 days a week; life is not easy for me studying every night til midnight. I've been in this line for 19 years already. tell my eyes open to a new opportunity studying in skillstrain it gives me new hope in life, to dream a that I can change career one day. That I'm not always in underdog situation. and its inspired me by getting 100 % 87% score I tell myself I know for sure I'm getting there, a new career one day. Thanks for skillstrain for giving me a knowledge to face the new future in my life.

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When I first looked at enrolling on this course, I was more than a little apprehensive of what the course would involve and how difficult it might be to understand and complete. It is many years since I last did any training, which incidentally was a Visual Basic course, unfortunately it was in the days when CD Writer's had only just come out, and due to it being a distance/home working course it was virtually impossible to get any help whatsoever from my tutor, who was sat on the other end of a phone and obviously could not see the programming code I had entered to assist me with issues I was having.
I have mentioned the above purely so that anyone who doubts their ability to complete this program will hopefully gain some confidence, especially as these days sending files, visiting forums, asking for help are so much more accessible and easy to find. I also do not rate myself as being naturally bright or intellectual, but so far I have achieved 90% markings on two TMA's & 100% on 1 TMA, which has given me great pleasure and confidence to go on. Since starting this course in October I have had to completely wipe the hard drive of my family PC due to a virus, and have had my Laptop send back to dell for a new Hard Drive, Memory & Motherboard, due to long standing issues I have experienced, so the laptop itself was basically wiped clean and I have lost 2-3 weeks not being able to submit my TMA's earlier. I hope this little tale of disaster gives those of you who May doubt their ability the strength and courage to continue with confidence

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I just want to share this very extremely positive progress report that I'm having, since I started my course. Being a house cleaner at private household I can't believe it sometimes that I'm going this far.

Gaining knowledge to change my life and to change my career. 100 % at progress report is like an opening gate of my dreams. And most of all getting myself in the dark. Thank you skills train more power.

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