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Recent news coverage of the increase in university course fees has highlighted that, as with anything in life, you get you what you pay for and education is no different. (Posted 11/01/12)
The whole family had saved up to give him the opportunity to come to London and take not just a bookkeeping course but a Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma course!
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The problem with most bookkeeping courses is that they are too hard to understand and it is too difficult to apply the learning to the workplace. (Posted 10/11/11)
Pitman Training in Manchester, best known for its diploma level legal secretarial course and nationally recognised bookkeeping courses has made a massive investment in the latest Dell servers and PC’s for its self-paced courses.
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In fact, people taking secretary courses and our diploma level Executive PA course in particular, seem to be scooping up the few jobs around. (Posted 19/10/11)
At this very minute, you can bet someone is looking at your job, wondering whether it can be cut. That’s why you need to take every step you can to safeguard your job.
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Students at the Pitman Training centres in London’s Holborn, Notting Hill and also in Central Manchester are being the offered the opportunity to qualify for two diploma qualifications for the price of one. (Posted 14/09/11)
Manchester is a town in the North West of England. I’ve been visiting Manchester for 8 months now and have grown fond of the place. (Posted 26/08/11)
My wife spotted a name on Google that was familiar to her from years ago. It was Pitman Training in London’s High Holborn, one of the oldest names in vocational education and my wife recognised them as a long-standing and trustworthy name. (Posted 23/08/11)
The prestigious Pitman Training centre in Manchester’s Chorlton Street has been forced to recruit additional staff for its Course Advisory and training teams following a surge in demand for office skills courses. (Posted 18/08/11)
Centuries of teaching children to write, their careful attempts to form intelligible letters with a pen or pencil, may be coming to an end according to one expert. (Posted 11/08/11)
If you want to "better yourself" by taking part-time evening bookkeeping courses, you should really consider Pitman Training in London (Notting Hill and High Holborn) and Manchester. (Posted 10/08/11)
Around mid-summer, we get a lot of people asking if we have any short bookkeeping courses they could complete during a week's leave, and Sage Line 50 courses are in particularly high demand. (Posted 02/08/11)
Holborn Training, best known for its franchised Pitman Training centres in London and Manchester has launched an all new Executive PA course entitled "From Good To Outstanding." (Posted 19/07/11)
Despite having sent our AAT qualified financial controller on many bookkeeping courses and having paid for a number of Sage courses, we didn’t seem to be making any progress in terms of drilling down into the company’s financial data.
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"There's no doubt that taking a legal secretarial course with us gives you great credibility in the jobs market but I think our location also has a bearing on our popularity. We're just a stone's throw from Lincolns Inn Fields, Staple Inn, Grays Inn and Temple and I can see the gardens of the Royal Courts Of Justice from my office! (Posted 23/05/11)
The best recognised way to acquire these skills is with Pitman’s diploma level Executive PA course.
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After 3 years at university studying law, many students decide they don’t want to become a solicitor but don’t want to waste their hard-eared knowledge while others recognise the competitiveness of the legal jobs market and decide to take a back route into the profession. (Posted 10/05/11)
Office skills education provider Holborn Training is seeing a marked difference in the range of its students’ nationalities between its training centres in London and Manchester even though it offers identical secretarial, bookkeeping and IT courses in both cities. (Posted 04/05/11)
You’re more likely to meet an ambitious barista or a double-shift waitress on our Executive PA course. (Posted 04/03/11)
It's not a job for the weak – but anyone can develop the skills with the right training. Indeed, Pitman Training’s Executive PA course to diploma level is probably the best recognised qualification in its field. (Posted 02/03/11)
Do You Ever Get The Feeling Someone Changed The Rules When You Weren’t Looking? Well they did! And it’s a shock to many of us when redundancy looms and we suddenly find the world of recruitment has changed beyond all recognition.
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The only thing you have to remember is that you've got to work at getting your book-keeping qualification.
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Having spent less than £4000.00 on a legal secretary course, she claims she was snapped up by the United Nations on a starting salary of £34K even though it was her first UK office job! (Posted 05/11/10)
The IBM range of courses is huge, so we have begun by marketing Lotus courses for the administrator, application development professional and server expert.
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The investment of time and money in recruiting good salespeople is so frequently spent for no benefit and a new book, "How To Hire A Salesperson And What To Do If It Doesn't Work Out" seeks to help business owners increase their chances of getting the recruitment process right first time
(see www.howtohireasalesperson.com). (Posted 26/10/10)
(see www.howtohireasalesperson.com). (Posted 26/10/10)
Shilpa Wymer, Managing Director of Holborn Training adds, “The selection process followed our own search for a respected name with whom we could broaden our portfolio of course offerings.” (Posted 13/10/10)
The Pitman name has long been at the vanguard of secretarial training in the UK and there is no sign that this venerable institution is in danger of losing its position. (Posted 28/09/10)
Having been turned down by a number of schools in my quest for glamorous study programmes, I got a job with an accountancy firm and they paid for me to take some basic bookkeeping courses. (Posted 15/09/10)
I didn't really fancy working but this girl really took my breath away so I decided to enrol on some bookkeeping courses alongside her so I could spend more time with her. (Posted 10/09/10)
But from a career perspective, it can be quite a quick route to get on the bookkeeping ladder although you will probably start off at the lower end of the pay scale. (Posted 07/09/10)
When I wanted to learn to be a bookkeeper, I was baffled by the huge array of bookkeeping courses on offer. (Posted 26/08/10)
If you’re working on career planning and considering bookkeeping courses, you really need to consider what you want to achieve. Are you looking for an entry level job or something more developmental?
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Individuals who invested in Word 2007 training often find they have a competitive advantage when it comes to finding jobs. (Posted 21/08/10)
Any manager or business owner would be mad to entrust someone who hadn’t done a recognised bookkeeping course with millions of pounds of money! (Posted 21/08/10)
Pitman Training’s delivery of Word training programmes is through what they call “self-paced” learning, where students learn through practical exercises facilitated by the use of pre-recorded lessons at the PC, supported by high quality courseware and experienced, friendly trainers standing by. (Posted 18/08/10)
We usually recommend, as a kind of insurance policy, that a mature individual should learn to type properly and take a Word course as the bare minimum. (Posted 17/08/10)
She claimed to be an Excel training specialist with a crooked boss, saying she had a bundle of papers that would blow the downtown development plans out of the water.
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I was looking for Excel courses as I needed to learn Excel fast for a new job. I had only 2 weeks available to me and I couldn’t afford the leisurely pace of education offered by the local college with its traditional evening classes format. (Posted 02/08/10)
Eventhrop blew the dust off the mildewed old book. “Advanced Excel Course by Pitman Training,” he read aloud.
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At my age, you need skills to make you stand out, not fit in, so when I saw an advert in the Metro for MS Excel training at Pitman Training, I thought I’d investigate, especially as they let you sample the course, free. (Posted 30/07/10)
When people come to visit us at Pitman Training in London (Notting Hill and High Holborn) for a skills assessment, the Microsoft subject in which most of them are weak is Excel. (Posted 30/07/10)
Traditionally such a bookkeeping course would have been taken as an evening class at a local college or university but modern technology and advances in learning delivery methods mean that other routes are now available to students. (Posted 26/07/10)
Isaac had settled into a rhythm with his typing course which was the kind where the student chooses when to attend. Indeed it was this flexibility that attracted him to the course rather than the value of learning to type. (Posted 23/07/10)
Accounting professionals are paid considerably more than bookkeepers, to reflect their expertise and knowledge but it takes much longer to study to be an accountant than the 3-12 months required for the Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma. (Posted 22/07/10)
It is likely that today’s secretary will have a university degree (although this is not always a pre-requisite) and they will almost certainly have taken secretarial courses including typing, shorthand and information technology training, particularly in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. (Posted 19/07/10)
Help and advice for job-seeking graduates through improving office skills such as typing and MS Office. (Posted 07/07/10)
I’m a Pitman Trained medical secretary and my job is sooo stressful but I love it.
I work for the Professor of ENT at a local hospital, specialising in the areas of reconstructive rhinoplasty and the psychology of the patient. (Posted 05/07/10)
I work for the Professor of ENT at a local hospital, specialising in the areas of reconstructive rhinoplasty and the psychology of the patient. (Posted 05/07/10)
Many people think shorthand is a dead skill but they’d be wrong as demand for shorthand training courses is “booming” according to Shilpa Wymer, Principal of the Pitman Training centres in London’s Holborn and Notting Hill.
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Pitman Training is probably the best known name in secretarial training and it’s no surprise that their medical secretary courses are so highly regarded. (Posted 05/07/10)
While there's no substitute for experience, a Pitman Training Medical Secretarial Diploma will help. (Posted 02/07/10)
First of all, the successful candidate for such a job role must be intelligent, determined and hard working. On top of that , they will have invested a considerable sum of money and much study time in a recognised legal secretary course.
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Graduate Lesley Price describes the impact of a Pitman Training typing course on her career in management. (Posted 28/06/10)
Have you ever wondered whether there might be a better way to get more learning out of a course? Maybe a more modern way of learning? (Posted 22/06/10)
Recently I’ve been reflecting on some of my successful hires and why I appointed them and a pattern has emerged.
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Employers really have a duty of care to staff to enable them to learn to type properly in order to avoid RSI which can be regarded as an industrial injury. (Posted 22/04/10)
Everybody uses a PC nowadays so computer keyboard skills are taken for granted, but there are two important reasons to learn to type properly. (Posted 22/04/10)
Today many firms look for students with a qualification such as a Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma, where they can deliver meaningful work from day one.
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The starting point for such a voyage of discovery is to take a basic bookkeeping course. (Posted 01/03/10)
Accounting Technician Diploma programme at Pitman Training accepts students at all levels, from beginners to experienced bookkeepers and takes them step by step through a dozen course modules. (Posted 28/02/10)
It is perfectly possible to obtain an accountancy qualification by taking accounting short courses, such as Sage Line 50 at 24 study hours or Sage Payroll at 18 hours. (Posted 27/02/10)
I saw an advert in the paper for Pitman Training and they were offering an accounting technician bookkeeping course on a flexi-study basis. I called them and it turned out they had all kinds of bookkeeping and accountancy courses on offer. (Posted 26/02/10)
Anyone looking to train for a career in accountancy or bookkeeping must surely be overwhelmed by the choices available to them! (Posted 25/02/10)
Legal secretary courses are the first step to becoming a qualified, professional legal secretary and many training providers claim to offer a programme in this area.
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Learning to become a secretary is a serious career decision, and not something you do twice! (Posted 28/01/10)
The secretarial job market remains in a state of rude good health despite the recession and demand for these highly skilled staff, the “backbone of the office,” is stronger than for other roles such administrative assistants and clerks.
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One of the great aspects about studying for a career as a secretary is the fact that secretarial skills are vocational, which means students aren’t locked into the traditional learning methodologies used by college and university establishments.
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The oldest and most respected provider of secretarial training is Pitman Training and their diploma level general secretarial course, legal secretarial course and medical secretarial course are among the most highly regarded programmes in the UK.
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Being a legal secretary offers varied career opportunities, whether you want to specialise or work across other areas of law. (Posted 09/11/09)
Working as a legal secretary can be extremely rewarding, as well as being varied day-to-day and offering good opportunities for career development.
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Being a legal secretary is a challenging, varied and interesting job with plenty of opportunities to diversify and take on different roles. (Posted 30/10/09)
The versatility of the suite has meant that it can just as easily be used by secretarial staff with specialist skills as people producing documents or spreadsheets at home.
Its importance in the workplace has led to providers offering secretary courses with Microsoft Outlook in London and more specific training for individual programmes, such as Word 2007 courses. (Posted 30/11/09)
Its importance in the workplace has led to providers offering secretary courses with Microsoft Outlook in London and more specific training for individual programmes, such as Word 2007 courses. (Posted 30/11/09)
Communication is obviously one of the key skills for anyone in the secretarial profession, along with practical abilities such as typing and shorthand. (Posted 22/10/09)
The latest survey from Morgan Spencer found that a director's Executive PA can earn up to £38,000 a year in the capital, with the average salary for this type of position standing at £33,500. (Posted 20/10/09)
Many business leaders have still stressed a shortage in computer skills among the workforce, despite the obvious benefits of undergoing IT training. (Posted 13/10/09)
Software in the new suite is much easier to use for secretarial workers and the likes of Microsoft Office courses in London are the best way to make the most of the applications.
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The Pitman name has long been associated with shorthand and secretarial training.
Its history dates back 140 years, when Sir Isaac Pitman set up his first shorthand school.
It is now the oldest and longest-running independent training company and has over 100 centres across the UK.
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It is now the oldest and longest-running independent training company and has over 100 centres across the UK.
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This is particularly true of a London Executive PA working at a high level in a company, for a chief executive or other senior members of staff. (Posted 01/10/09)
In a tough jobs market, it can be difficult to know where to start when trying to find work, particularly if you have been unemployed for a while. (Posted 24/09/09)
Entering a career in bookkeeping can lead to a variety of opportunities for professional development, with plenty of qualifications on offer. (Posted 23/09/09)
A career in the secretarial profession can be extremely rewarding and lead you on to bigger and better things if you wish to move up the ladder. (Posted 20/09/09)
Knowing what software can do for you and how it can help you in your day-to-day job is also important for staying on top of things at work when you are under scrutiny, which is where the knowledge acquired from Microsoft Office courses comes in. (Posted 16/09/09)
Enrolling on a minute taking course may be advisable if you have never tried to record the details of a meeting.
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Training and experience can come to a person's aid, with the likes of typing courses helping administrative staff to brush up on their skills and maintain confidence in the job they're doing, which can be important for cutting out mistakes. (Posted 09/09/09)
Businesses are seeking accounts assistants and people who are in the early stages of studying bookkeeping courses (Posted 25/08/09)
Word 2007 courses are one of the ways that older workers can prove they are up to the task. (Posted 21/08/09)
Despite various pleas for the government to retain the rate at 15 per cent, it looks as though ministers will stick to their original plans to return VAT to 17.5 per cent on January 1st, 2010. (Posted 14/08/09)
Most reporters take Teeline shorthand courses, which is the version tested by The National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ). (Posted 11/08/09)
The likes of legal secretary courses, medical secretary training or accounting courses in London could provide the ideal alternative for young people who have ambitions of extending their education and gaining employment but do not want to go to university. (Posted 11/08/09)
Colin Steed, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of IT Training, reveals that people find it difficult to get into this line of work unless they can demonstrate the necessary expertise. (Posted 03/08/09)
People who entered the secretarial profession years ago have often acquired their skills on the job. (Posted 31/07/09)
An Executive PA who is fluent in more than
one language can expect to earn on average £30,500. (Posted 30/07/09)
Employers should ensure that their staff can carry out a variety of tasks at their desk, so it is not just typing 100 per cent of the time. (Posted 25/07/09)
Pitman Training in London's High Holborn and Notting Hill, which offers courses in secretarial studies, bookkeeping training and PA courses in London, has just achieved the accreditation, demonstrating its credentials as an educational facility. (Posted 13/07/09)
Acknowledging the significance of practical courses, Pitman Training has recently launched a new online learning programme, Management Professional. (Posted 10/07/09)
As many as 40,000 young people looking to enter higher education for the first time could be left without a place as the demand for university study far outweighs the number of positions available on courses. (Posted 03/07/09)
27 per cent were listed in professional jobs, 12 per cent were doing administrative and secretarial work and 11 per cent were in the sales and customer service sector. (Posted 03/07/09)
Pitman Training announces radical new departure in approach to both online learning and programme accreditation.
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Pitman Training has given me much more confidence but mostly I feel I have at last got a proper career path if I'm ever out of work again. (Posted 29/06/09)
What is it like working as an Executive PA for the publishing director of one of the biggest magazines in the country? (Posted 24/06/09)
The simplicity of Teeline has also meant that it is easy for non-English speakers to pick up. (Posted 20/06/09)
Going from actor to accountant does not seem like the most natural career progression, but for one man, accounting courses in London were the start to a whole new role in life. (Posted 13/06/09)
With redundancies increasing due to the recession, many people are turning to self-employment, a trend which has been seen particularly in the bookkeeping profession. (Posted 13/06/09)
Microsoft Word is a staple in any office environment and a major part of day-to-day life for secretarial staff, but with a number of different versions circulating, you need to make sure you are being trained in the latest edition. (Posted 10/06/09)
Important reveals that while salaries are continuing to fall, the speed of decline has slowed of late, and one expert asserts that secretarial wages have remained comparatively stable. (Posted 10/06/09)
While many businesses are reporting redundancies during the recession, one recruitment company has revealed a rise in demand for in-house legal secretarial staff. (Posted 30/05/09)
Pitman Training centres in London's Notting Hill and High Holborn have been awarded the coveted matrix quality standard for information, advice and guidance services. (Posted 28/05/09)
Being an Executive PA to the boss of a major firm can be an extremely glamorous job, but behind the glitz lies a lot of hard work and training. (Posted 23/05/09)
It is hard to remember a time when computers were not ever-present in homes and offices, but nowadays secretarial staff simply cannot get by without competence in IT and, more specifically, Microsoft Office. (Posted 23/05/09)
It might be the time for people to consider typing courses and secretarial training. It is not only beneficial in educational terms, but also from a social perspective. (Posted 16/05/09)
Taking a touch typing course and improving speed is vital for developing the essential skills needed to get a secretarial job in the current competitive market, according to one expert. ( Posted 12/05/09)
Malcolm Trotter, chief executive of the International Association of Bookkeepers (IAB), says people who are trained in accounting and finance are playing a vital role in helping firms, particularly small businesses, to emerge from the recession. (Posted 10/05/09)
Report on the importance of medical secretarial training for professionals seeking employment in the relatively recession proof environment of the NHS. (Posted 05/05/09)
Our Principal, Shilpa Wymer explains what you can do to encourage your recruitment consultant to really get behind you in search for a new job as a secretary, administrator or bookkeeper.
A Pitman Training student reports on the reality of her first 3 weeks in the job at a small firm following her Accounting Technician Diploma bookkeeping course.
