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One of the questions submitted by a reader to the Myths Debunked Burning IT Career Questions Answered post deals with "how to get your employer to pay for your computer programming courses" and I want to answer that question in detail on this post.
Let me start by asking you "have you ever thought of asking your employer or manager to pay for your professional training at the software developer boot camp?"
Yes, you can ask your employer to pay for any of our online training courses. After you complete your training, you can present your certificate of completion or transcript to your human resources (HR) department or your IT manager and get reimbursed depending on your employer's benefit program. To get started now all you have to do is ask your employer if you can get reimbursed for job related training.
Why Would Your Employer Pay For Your Training?
Here is why your employer may want to pay for your computer programming training. Your employer or manager would pay for your technical training or reimburse you for it, if you can make a good case for it. I will help develop the case for you and you can adapt it as you want and present it to your employer for feedback.
1. Job Related Training
If you are an IT professional, the technical training we provide to you is job related and your IT manager or HR department would classify it as a job related training.
The software developer boot camp is a professional level software developer training class covering the programming language skills a professional software developer needs. Since your IT manager has a training budget which needs to be spent before your 2008 training year is over, now is a really good time to have the discussion on "what you want to be trained on and how much your training will cost your company".
2. Professional Career Advancement
After you complete the software developer boot camp training, you get a professional software developer certificate which your IT manager will love to stick in your file as proof that his or her employees are moving ahead with their career.
You may not realize it, but, you actually make your IT manager or IT director look good by taking professional software development courses. It proves that your manager is hiring and working with capable, talented, motivated employees and guess what, your professional software developer training also improves your chances of getting a promotion or salary raise.
3. Scarcity Of Software Development Talent
The competition for software developers is high right now. It is by far easier for your employer to either pay for your software development training or reimburse you after you complete your training than to hire more software development resources.
The cost of attending the professional software developers boot camp is peanuts in comparing to the cost that would be incurred by your IT director, IT manager or HR department by looking for or hiring additional software development resources which can be as much as $150,000/yr. per additional programmer. In other words, you are saving your company a lot of money by attending the software developer boot camp and the programming class is a win-win for both you and your manager.
So now you know why your employer may want to pay for your software development training at the software developer boot camp, I hope you act on this information and not just sit on it!
If you have a question you want answered on the software developers boot camp, business analyst boot camp or any of the professional IT career training programs on this website, submit it to: Myths Debunked Burning IT Career Questions Answered post.
About The Author
My name is Kingsley Tagbo and I?m a technical expert living in Saint Louis, Missouri. I write about the training, coaching, mentoring and personal development of software development professionals including business analysts, computer programmers, testers, project managers, web designers, data analysts, report writers, software developers and other information technology professionals .
My firm, Exacticity, performs software development consulting and training for clients throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. If you are in need of software development consultants or training, click here to get in touch with me.
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