GN-101 : A foundation course on the specialisations and job opportunities in IT

• Have you just graduated, and want to work in information technology?
• Or are you already in a job, and want to move your career across into information technology?
• Are you finding it hard to choose the specialism that suits you best, out of all of them?
• Do you want to know what it actually takes to become good at the specialism you pick?
• Would you rather try the subject first, before you spend thousands of pounds and lose months on specialist courses you may later find do not suit you?
• Do you want a close look at the job market, and to see how things run inside a company as though you were already on the staff?
• And what about the openings in other Arab countries, or working freelance from home and reaching clients wherever they are?

Get answers to all of those questions and more from this training programme, which gives you everything you need
to know about the specialisms and branches of information technology in the Egyptian job market, and in the Arab countries

Every day you will look at, and live through, a real experience of one of the main specialisms in information technology, as though you were working at a company in the field

This training programme walks through four of the main specialisms in information technology, taught by experts who know the job market well enough to give you a full and practical picture of each one, its detail and its branches, so that you come away with a clear view of the route into the field and of how to settle into it, and of what the job market may put in front of you later, what to expect and what to be wary of and avoid at the start of your working life..

In each session one specialism is covered in full, and you will meet trainers with the experience and the standing to tell you everything about that specialism and its branches:

• The different specialisms within each field, and every sub-branch.
• How to become good at the specialism and competitive in the job market, how long that will take you and how much work you have to put in.
• What to study and where to begin, which certifications count for most in the specialism, and how to get them.
• What jobs the specialism opens up, in the Egyptian market, elsewhere in the Arab world, or freelance.
• How to judge what the work is likely to pay, what companies offer on average, and what you get back for the effort you put in
• How to set up on your own in the field, and how to win clients in any country.

But that is not all. We are not dealing in theory here. You have to try a thing yourself to be sure it suits you, and so you get practical training on selected topics within each specialism. Those topics are not there only as a taster, either; they are worth having in their own right, and will leave you with a great deal you will need and use later

Our programme also includes a section on the personal skills the workplace asks for: time management, interview technique, how to write a professional CV (for information technology), how to prepare for an interview or a meeting with a client, what to raise in that interview and what to keep to yourself, whether at a company or with your own clients as a freelance, and other groundwork to set you up in the specialism you have chosen.

This training programme is your chance to compress months, perhaps years, of searching, studying and trial and error into five days, and come away with a clear and complete guide to the areas of work in the information technology market in Egypt and across the Arab world