Contractor IT/BA Trainers

[LadyPenelope]

One word of warning: the BA market is saturated. It seems like every man and their dog has BA on their CV these days and the clients are getting very specific about what they're looking for... it may be best to look elsewhere, or to train toward a specific niche.

HTH.

A lot of truth in this, and there has been a marked decline in the number of BA roles available from what there was a few years ago, even allowing for current circumstances. They'd also be competing with people with years of experience, and often in relevant industries to the target client.

As NLUK says, a perm role is a better bet at entry level - but still, given the above, I'm not sure it's the best career to go for at the moment.

Having said that, trainer might be a good bet. Can't outsource that one, can they?

[cojak]

A lot of truth in this, and there has been a marked decline in the number of BA roles available from what there was a few years ago, even allowing for current circumstances. They'd also be competing with people with years of experience, and often in relevant industries to the target client.

As NLUK says, a perm role is a better bet at entry level - but still, given the above, I'm not sure it's the best career to go for at the moment.

Having said that, trainer might be a good bet. Can't outsource that one, can they?

No, but I rapidly got very peed off knowing that those I trained walked into better rates than I was getting as a trainer.

I dumped that and walked into one of those other contracts instead.

Happy days...

[SandyD]

No need to worry about whether BA is the right choice for her and the market situation, this doesn't apply to her, she lives abroad in a different European city where the situation is not as bleak as the UK, she will have to start her career from zero again as she has been home with the kids for so many years, so it will be like a junior trainee or something. I believe she chose a few technical courses at the moment, perhaps for the best.