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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Have you come up with a specific piece of ‘training’ and asked for it? Every company I’ve worked for has been happy to send me on courses (even coughing up over £1000/year for OU studies) however I’ve has to chase down the courses and sell my bosses the benefits of them.<BR>
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The main problem with training is deciding what you need that can give back to the company rather than just qualify your for your next job.<BR>
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I got brainwashed by ‘Investors in People’ a few years ago (another course I went on :0) ), which (though in most companies is just a badge to hang on the wall) makes a lot of sense when it comes to training. Basically you write a 5 year plan of where you want your company to be and what you want it to be doing, look at the skills you have to deliver that and the skills you need and build a training plan AND BUDGET around that. <BR>
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And training can be books, conferences and free R&D time as much as going on collage courses, infact conferences are the best training I’ve had.<BR>
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Mike<BR>
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On 06/09/2010 11:41, "Simon Emms" <<a href="simon@simonemms.com">simon@simonemms.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D">Same experience here, but I do have a couple of friends who’ve worked for companies that have been put through Zend Certification.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">mailto:phpwm-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Carl Sutton<BR>
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<B>To:</B> West Midlands PHP User Group<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [Phpwm] trainings<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM, <<a href="nerijus@discountdomainsuk.com">nerijus@discountdomainsuk.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
Hi,<BR>
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Does your companies provide any trainings for their developers, and if yes<BR>
- in what way? Or I'm asking too much from my boss? :/<BR>
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Nerijus<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>I've worked for lots of companies that promised this before starting, but never actually had one that followed through.<BR>
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