Contractor IT/BA Trainers

[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.

[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...

[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?

[Paralytic]

A better suggestion would be

Forget it BA/PM roles that have been plentiful in the last 10 years are no more (unless you know your old boss)

Forget it

I've seen this mentioned a few time here (not sure if all by you). Why do you say this? Have these roles just gone away?

[GhostofTarbera]

A better suggestion would be to go perm. Having some training does not make a contractor. training != skills & experience

A better suggestion would be

Forget it BA/PM roles that have been plentiful in the last 10 years are no more (unless you know your old boss)

Forget it


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[PerfectStorm]

A better suggestion would be to go perm. Having some training does not make a contractor. training != skills & experience

It certainly doesn't make a BA; the 'trained' ones I've worked with have been inflexible, methodology robots.

But it may be better than nothing to get a foot in the door. The real learning will happen on the job, away from the books and powerpoint.

[vwdan]

A better suggestion would be to go perm. Having some training does not make a contractor. training != skills & experience

Yeah, but a real contractor can blag the interview and learn on the job.

[Hobosapien]

A better suggestion would be to go perm. Having some training does not make a contractor. training != skills & experience

I'd go further and suggest seeking a company willing to take on career changers and train them up.

I saw the following just yesterday after seeing someone asking a similar career change question on reddit or some other forum I peruse.

Technology Development Programme | Nationwide Jobs

Seems as good an approach as any if you want an actual job out of it. Note I'm not personally recommending Nationwide as I have had no dealings with them at all, not even as a customer. I'm sure there are other big companies taking a similar proactive approach in finding skilled staff to fill their niches.

[northernladuk]

A better suggestion would be to go perm. Having some training does not make a contractor. training != skills & experience

[wattaj]

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.

[SandyD]

Thanks cojak, was thinking of PMing you anyway as I know you were a trainer and took training yourself. Will PM you re her.

[cojak]

I would definitely recommend TCC Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA) Training Courses | TCC

I did agile BA with them but they do the BSC BA courses as well.

And don't dismiss Udemy, you can get their course for a tenner if you open one of their ads. It will give you base knowledge.

[SandyD]

Any Trainers here? I have a query from a lady who wants to retrain as a BA/IT analyst, but she has been not working for a few years now because of her young kids, now that they started school, she is looking to reskill, so I suggested training to refresh her old skills.... anyone has a good suggestion where she can start ?