SkillsTrain Reviews from Students

I think that studying with skills train is going to make this Christmas better as if I was studying at college Christmas could be very stressful with course work now with skills train I can take my time and not rush with any of my assignments and hand them in when I feel ready to do so studying with skills train is the best choice I ever made and would like to thank the staff at skills train for giving me a place on this course thank you!

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This is the time that I want to thank you for the tutor team that attending to my questions and also to the staff of skills train. I am thankful that I join in this program because it teach me to learn more about the computer and much more to my course hoping to finish it on time. I gives me to be more creative in my work and to enter in some job opportunities like doing a paid survey at home just in front of my computer. Thank you very much! And Merry Christmas to all of you.

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My story is a big one. I was a heroin addict for 8 years and after seeing life at its most low for that time I knew I needed to get out. so I did and now I have an exciting new job in IT and have just finished my last TMA on my first book of the N+ course. This will be a great Xmas this year as I have a positive future ahead of me. 2 years clean and a good career, for me life could not be any better. Thank you all very much

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Thanks to SkillsTrain I am now able to enjoy my Christmas knowing that I will be able to provide for my family when I finish my course. I am still just young, but thanks to SkillsTrain I will be able to get a nice job during my A-levels and help me on my way into university. I will also get to learn so much about IT that without SkillsTrain I do not believe I would be able to.

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Well my story isn't as colourful as others but I'm satisfied with what I'm getting with skills train so far. This n+ is my first course with skills train and I'm still working on with it. By the end of Feb/March I'm looking to finish it. About skills train I haven't got more info but so far I believe it will sure do uplift me to goal I've planned. Well wish you all luck n success. Thanks to skills train. Merry Christmas & happy new year

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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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Studying with skillstrain this year is helping me understand more about computers and improving my knowledge. it is giving me the confidence to work and look forward to the future when before I was wondering what I'll be doing, now I know what I want to do and I know I can do it with the help from skillstrain. Without them id be sat at home doing nothing but I'm at home studying and it makes me happy knowing that soon I could have my dream job.

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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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In 2007 I was struggling at University studying an unsuitable course, getting into debt and unhappy with my life and prospects. I left university and went full-time in a call centre, however although reasonably paid I found the work mundane and my career path was limited. I have always had an interest in computers and, hearing about Skillstrain, decided to take the plunge and sign up for their CIW Website Design Manager course.

Shortly afterwards I quit my job in the call centre and moved back to my home area where I worked part-time while studying the Skillstrain course. At the beginning of this year (2008) I managed to get a placement with an IT company, helped greatly by the knowledge I had gained through the early stages of my course. In April they took me on as a permanent member of staff and I recently received a pay-rise due to my progress.

I am approaching the last section of my course and am delighted at the change in my life thanks to Skillstrain. I am now happy in my work, studying a course that is relevant and interesting to me, and looking forward to a more fulfilling and better-paid career.

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This year has been a very tough year for me, however the knowledge I have gained throughout the year has only led me closer to being a freelance web designer. I have been able to take on more projects while still studying and feel that 2009 for me can only get better.

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Studying with SkillsTrain is going to make this end of year even better than the last because I have been offered placement on web design & development projects in which I never would have been invited if I didn't gain the amount of skills that I have developed on the CIW Web Design manager course.

I have also been able to help university students to gain more skills and understand their work because of the skills gained on the CIW course.

I was also told by a Dr in my local university that next year I could enrol into their Bsc (Hons) Computer Science and Software engineering course directly into the second or third year of the degree because of the skills that I have already developed. That is excellent as I've always wanted to go to university but did not want to go for the entire 3 or 4 years of a degree.

Thanks to Skillstrain, I can now get a degree in just 1 or 2 years. Studying with SkillsTrain will definitely make this end of year even better than the last!

Thank you Skillstrain!

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I am student of skill train from last nine months. I came here from India 11 months before as a dependent. I only had a part time job at the time in a fast food restaurant. I had my graduation in computer from India and I worked on database system in India. But here I couldn't find a system base jobs so I relies that I have to do a course from UK but I did not have enough money that time skill train give me opportunity to do E-commerce and project management course that CIW certification with a monthly basis instalments. And I find myself in me for that thanks to skill train for help.

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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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I have now began to run my own IT consultancy and repair business. I am not going to say it has been easy, but thanks to the tutors at SkillsTrain, it has been easier than expected, due to the training support offered. I stood little chance of employment on the open job market due to my many medical problems, and family commitments to my disabled son, but now two years down the line, I am once again financially sound and it's all thanks to SkillsTrain. I can't thank you enough for the support and encouragement provided by the staff and tutors, May I wish everyone more success for the future and May you continue to go from strength to strength, as I myself have done.

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