IT Skills Bootcamps

Friday, August 19, 2022

Limited opportunities once again for IT Skills and Cyber Skills Bootcamps. These are 12 week online virtual classroom-based courses fully funded by the government if you are unemployed and up to 90% funded if you are employed and want to upskill in your current role.

 

What are Skills Bootcamps?

 

Skills Bootcamps are part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Plan for Jobs. Our free Skills Bootcamp in IT Skills and Cyber Skills will give you all the technical skills needed to start your first IT/Cyber role or to help you progress into a Level 4 apprenticeship.

 

As part of the course you will receive essential technical skills to enter the industry, hone your soft skills, including communication, collaborative working, problem-solving and working to deadlines.

 

Available to adults 19 and over. You must have an active interest in working in the IT/Cyber sector, previous experience is not necessary.

 

Technical Training

 

What will The Skills Bootcamp will build technical knowledge and hands-on skills needed to start your career. This will include;

 
  • Industry recognised certification - Accredited CompTIA Security+.

  • Industry recognised certification - CompTIA Cyber Security Analyst+ (CySA+) OR CompTIA A+ for IT Skills

  • CertNexus Cybersafe Awareness

  • Introduction to IoT and how you can become part of it.

 

Career Support

 

The Skills Bootcamps are focused on making the candidates as employable as possible, by ensuring they learn the skills, gain the required qualifications and provide recruitment support if required at the end of the course.

 

Why Choose BIT Training?

 

BIT Training (formerly Bluescreen IT) have been supporting MoD service leaders to resettle into the growing global tech industry for the past 17 years. We now use this expertise to help the South West citizens to build their confidence, industry skills and secure that next exciting role in the new digital sector. The government upskill program is focused on providing trained people as this sector is worth £139 billion to the UK economy and employs over 1.56million people. Be part of it and start training towards your new career with us this September.

 

You'll need to be quick - the Skills Bootcamps start in September and run to the end of November, so don't delay, Register Now