Improving ICT

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I hope someone can advise me here - I need to improve my knowledge with ICT, I was thinking of doing the ECDL or I've just seen an ad for doing an IGCSE in ICT - has anybody done either of these qualifications?

I want to make myself more employable in an admin role. I have a good working knowledge of Word, but Excel is very rusty.

Thanks!

I work in IT. I have not done either of those qualifications.
But if you are hoping for an admin office job using a PC, rather than trying to get a job in an IT support role, then the ECDL is more suited to you.

there are some fab online resources - maybe one of these might help. I don't have connections with any of them - it's one of the chapters in my back to work ebook

• www.lynda.com/ for technology, creative and business skills
• www.futurelearn.com/ free online courses
• www.coursera.org/ courses from top universities
• www.edx.org/ free online courses
• www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses from The Open University
• www.udacity.com/ tech skills from Silicon Valley companies
• www.udemy.com/ more than 40,000 online skills courses

I did the ECDL Essentials and ECDL Extra courses a couple of years ago. The ECDL Extra course covered Excel, Powerpoint and Word.

I did the course because I was, and still am, looking for work and thought it would be a good thing to have on my CV. One of my local councils actively seeks it as a qualification to "prove" that you can use a computer/computer packages.

The only thing I would say is that because I haven't managed to find a job I've since forgotten pretty much everything I (re-)learnt on Excel!

I think there are some providers who are offering free online courses for this such as

www.vision2learn.net/courses

Good luck.