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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Did you get any training for your job when you started it?

Mentoring/ actual training/ courses..?

If not, how do you know how to do your job?

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Unlike todays NVQ’s, when I was in training, we were in college for 12 hours every Thursday and served a 5 year apprenticeship.

Sadly the NVQ or Non Valid Qualification as it’s better known are just a paperwork tick box training job to get people through the door.

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By *lephantisMan
over a year ago

Oxford

I'm a teacher. When I started, back in sepia when it were all fields round 'ere, all state school secondary teachers needed a first degree in their subject, plus a year-long university-taught PGCE, plus a successful first year of supervised teaching.

20 years later, thanks to the wondrous advent of academies, few new teachers have PGCEs and many don't have a degree in the subject they teach.

Progress.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mid/ senior I’m somewhat a professional

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes. Lots. It was a career change. Very glad I made it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes. It was an apprenticeship to start with so on the job training from a peer and then classroom learning too.

I still do online courses to keep up to date with software and also read up on news bits related to my job as necessary.

The company is great, especially my boss at keeping us all up to date with new bits and pieces that need implemented straight away.

I can also ask my colleagues to help me brush up on skills if I need to.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No, it was completely self taught in my spare time.

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By *anderingArtistMan
over a year ago

an abstract world

On my current job they've put a lot of emphasis into training and they've just enrolled me on a apprenticeship diploma in operational business management (or some jargon like that).

I know I'm lucky, as the last time I recieved "proper" training at a job was my apprenticeship, fresh out of college. But it does feel nice to finally be in a company who care about your training/development.

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Yes lots of training, I had on the job training followed by a diploma then my degree all through work.

Mrs

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

We all learn on the job in the creative industries. Mostly by osmosis just from being around others doing their work. Which is why a studio environment is so important. It’s been really tough training up any young ’uns through the pandemic.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"Unlike todays NVQ’s, when I was in training, we were in college for 12 hours every Thursday and served a 5 year apprenticeship.

Sadly the NVQ or Non Valid Qualification as it’s better known are just a paperwork tick box training job to get people through the door. "

It's not even training. When I did one I had to make up a folder covering everything I did in my job under a scope of what was required.

If there was something I didn't do my boss would get me to do it, or set my timetable so I did do it.

It was a 2 week folder project packed out to last months, with one day a week at a college telling us what we need to cover that week.

Basically we they said you have to be doing xyz, and we said yes we do xyz, and here's the evidence in a folder.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

No a chimp could do the job I do x

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By *enrietteandSamCouple
over a year ago

Staffordshire

No I didn’t now you mention it.

Learned by watching, asking questions and then it’s just trial and error, learn from mistakes and gradually build the skill set

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Training and courses and a lot of making it up as I went along

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I had to have a certain qualification and experience, the company gave me training to do more jobs for them.

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By *ambertMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham

Nope. And I'm still winging it to this day, managed a massive apartment complex.

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By *oco_marsWoman
over a year ago

Stockport

When I was a butcher I had on the job training then went to college.

With my current retail job I've had some training, but winged it a lot in my early days!

And my charity job, I picked it up as I went along.

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By *ong-leggedblondWoman
over a year ago

Next Door

No, as its a new system being implemented and I've had to train the teams across the world.

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

Whatever job you do, continuous personal and professional development is a must not only to make improvements in the job you do but for career progression too. Enlightened employers will insist and support you with this.

Apprentiships of course if done well provide that combination of on the job and off the job training for young people. Unfortunately, much of this depends on how they are managed and how good that relationship between the apprentice, the training provider and the employer is.

Further education and traning remains very much underfunded but also funds are not targeted well in those areas of skills shortage. We all know that education and health are political pawns and suffer from ad hoc changes based on political whim rather than having an in depth review and long term planning which will be carried forward and deported by governments of any colour

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By *lex.and.SexCouple
over a year ago

Bedale

Yeah 6 years of uni and 2 years on the job certification

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By *ightkitty4uWoman
over a year ago

Epsom

Oh yes, 5 weeks of intense training Mon -Fri with a daily exam. Paper or practical depending on subject

Then we have yearly exams practical and theory. And 3 yearly intense exams/practical

Then before every “shift” we have a briefing where we have to answer a safety question correctly

Then every shift we are scored 1-5 and receive this information every 3 months. We do receive praise/ criticism during the shift. So know if we’ve gone wrong or done well.

Oh if I fail the exam I get to retake it if I fail the retake I go to a verbal exam if fail that I’m out of a job!

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By *icassolifelikeMan
over a year ago

Luton

12 weeks basic, 4 months phase 2 and still don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.

No cuff too tough!

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By *ittle Miss TinkerbellWoman
over a year ago

your head

Yes with my current job although I feel it was fairly disorganised and was more tick some boxes and throw us in the deep end to see if we sink or swim. Training on previous jobs has varied, some has been amazing and some I've had to practically begged for or find on my own initiative and sometimes in my own time.

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By *os19Man
over a year ago

Edmonton

I started my current job April 2001 and there was 13 weeks training back then in a classroom with a trainer involving practice cases , real cases , role play , watching videos as well as reading handouts

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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago

for a penny

3years Engineering apprenticeship.

Day release study at tech college for HNC.

BSc degree.

On the job training.

BA (Hons) degree.

On the job training.

Post Grad Diploma.

On the job training.

Professional exams.

Short CPD courses.

PGCE

Teaching practice.

Part-time study.

Professional exams.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

Nope, no training and when I very first started Google wasn't a thing so I couldn't even Google how to do it.

I spent time on the very basic admin (literally photocopying, filing, doing post), watching what others were doing and muscling myself in wherever I could. Thankfully I'm a quick learner and I'm very good, so within 12 months I had my own site to manage.

I made a lot of mistakes but I made sure I learned from every one of them.

I also make sure I'm available to coach new starters and juniors so they aren't in the position I was in when I started out.

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

I have two jobs; one was 4 years of university.

Other job; lots of transferable skills from both degrees and postgrad which meant I didn’t need to do further qualifications like others in my role. But for the actual nitty gritty of the job, no proper training, just lots of cries of help and finding my own way.

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By *heLaserGuyMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Mine was all self taught, hours upon hours viewing tutorials, practice and more tutorials.

You get out what you put in, my work started as a hobby then progressed to full size professional shows, the journey was similar to doing a uni degree with no lecturer

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

Not really.

Just learn by experience mainly.

I'm even self taught on the software I use.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Thank you All. You encouraged me to train myself.

Spent a few hours today at it and feel somewhat better. You are an awesome lot.

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