Reskilling - Course Recommendations Please

[MrMarkyMark]

I am currently in my first role with a well known solution providing consultancy in the UK but I wish to transfer into the contracting arena at the earliest availability but I feel I need to expand upon my technical creature set before doing so.

I am particularly interested in doing Sharepoint development. I have done Sharepoint client but not Sharepoint server and I would very much like to learn sharepoint server so I can apply for Sharepoint server contracts.

Can anybody point me or recommend me to some online courses that have an active practical component rather than just watching videos?

I have looked at PlrualSight but this does not best fit my needs as I do not have available hardware to run a resource intensive application in the same league as Sharepoint server. Furthermore, I do not have Sharepoint server software and I do not have any programming tools.

This is my question:

Are there any cheap or free online courses available that provide all the hardware and software requirements encapsulated in a VM access? So for example, I subscribe to a course and then I get VM access where I can access Sharepoint Server instance and a development studio suite such as Visual Studio and I can build some Sharepoint server projects under the direction of the course literature?

Thanks in advance,

Wetti

Don't take this the wrong way, but I believe you still have a lot of work to do

[Wetti Big Deal Birnathi]

Thank you

[Bee]

Thank you

You are welcome.

[northernladuk]

You are welcome.

You got the quote the wrong way around again.

[LondonManc]

I am not a novice technician though, I have worked for some years in my home country and now approach the end of a 2 year period with one uk employer so I believe I am versed in the prerequisite skills to obtain a contract.

As eek pointed out, you'd be a novice in the SharePoint arena. Hey, if you want to go for it and sit on the bench after your first contract, go for it. I'd been doing what I am still doing for over 12 years before I went contracting. I didn't feel confident enough to secure the second and third contracts until then.

[MrMarkyMark]

As eek pointed out, you'd be a novice in the SharePoint arena. Hey, if you want to go for it and sit on the bench after your first contract, go for it. I'd been doing what I am still doing for over 12 years before I went contracting. I didn't feel confident enough to secure the second and third contracts until then.

Yeh and you too still have a lot of work to do

[Wetti Big Deal Birnathi]

I think I will need a solution for which I will need to pay some money which I am prepared to do as a means to an ending.

Are there any training providers who provide VM based training solutions so that I can pursue this course of study in my own time rather than in direct attendance at a learning establishment?

I have tried gooling this but I can only find results of a generic training nature not providers who provide these furnishings.

[northernladuk]

But if you can get there just paying money then so can everyone else. You need to solid experience as well as the courses as has already been mentioned.

[Wetti Big Deal Birnathi]

But if you can get there just paying money then so can everyone else. You need to solid experience as well as the courses as has already been mentioned.

I need enough just experience to pass the interview stage visn't it true?

[LondonManc]

I need enough just experience to pass the interview stage visn't it true?

This has got to be a WUM account, surely?