To ask how long the company you work for took to train you?

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I'm one of a few new starters and training seems quite slow and no real structure atm. There have been managers off etc and system problems which have put people behind.

It's been a lot of shadowing and having a good but not a lot of input or structure to my day atm.

How long did it take for your company and what can I do to be more pro active? I've only just got my system so can hopefully start doing more.

Just wish I could get trained quicker.

6 months, buy my training was daily, and structured. My job is niche to say the least. It will vary by industry and company

We didn't really have training as such at my job. I started, got give a project to manage, so spent first couple of weeks reading through files to get up to speed and start doing the work. So got shown how to do tasks as they came up

I’ve been at my place of work for 6 months and still haven’t received adequate training 🙄

I'm going to go in tomorrow and ask them to give me a bunch of orders to do before they get too into their work load. I just wanna crack on now and get stuck in.

Hit the ground running and have been ever since!

It really depends on the job. Can you say what you do?

I am a lawyer. I learnt by shadowing and basically being thrown in the deep end. It takes years and years even after law school to 'train' a lawyer. I use the word 'train' because the subject matter is so wide (even in a specialist area) that no one person knows all the answers and the law and practice keeps changing all the time. It is a lawyer's skill to find the answer, whether by research, asking colleagues, seniors for guidance and/or exercising judgment, usually all 3.

Completely varies on the job role I’d say. I’m on 2.5 years and still learn something new everyday, though ‘official’ training ended about 5 months ago.

Totally depends on the job. Many people are already trained, and just need a quick induction. Other people go in cold, but the job can be learned in a few minutes.

Training? Ha! I had to train myself.

Training?! I started my first day (ever!) as a project manager and got shown my computer and left too it! Not training, and no handover!

Never. I was expected to get on with it.