[Gllug] Graduates paying for IT training before employment

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Doug Winter wrote:

> The 'guarantee' of a job is unlikely to hold any water, and that's the
> only reason i can see to do the course with them as opposed to just
> paying for it out of his own pocket.
> 
> Consultancies do sometimes require their consultants to fund stuff out
> of their own pockets, but normally when they get higher up the food
> chain - it's common for consultants to have to pay significant amounts
> to buy their way into the partnership, for example.

That is a very different matter. Buying part ownership of a business (as 
in buing into a partnership) is a well recognised way of gaining business 
credibility and access to more clients.

Jason Clifford
-- 
UKFSN.ORG		Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net
http://www.ukfsn.org/		ADSL Broadband available now


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug