ITCareerCoach Training - Coaching » online data analyst training http://www.it-career-coach.net How To Take Your Career To The Next Level Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:09:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Learn How to Make Knowledge or Skills Work http://www.it-career-coach.net/2011/03/24/learn-how-to-make-knowledge-or-skills-work/ http://www.it-career-coach.net/2011/03/24/learn-how-to-make-knowledge-or-skills-work/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:55:38 +0000 ITCareerCoach http://www.it-career-coach.net/?p=3147

Make your Knowledge or Skills Work

Make your Knowledge or Skills Work


There is such a wealth of information out there that it can be overwhelming to someone trying to figure out what they need to learn.

I mean, when you look in your local bookstore you will see a huge section of books to help, but what you won’t find is the insider information that teaches you exactly the most profitable techniques or what you absolutely must know.

You also won’t find any resources that will give you the inside information about what you need to know so that you stand out from the crowd.

You also won’t find the inside information about what to expect at information technology job interviews and more importantly – how to answer them!

Our online online career coaching or online training classes provides this information and more.

And not only that, but it is structured in such a way that it is easy to learn. Each step builds on what you learn in the previous step so you never get overwhelmed.

Here is how we help make knowledge and skills work.

Learn Whenever – Why Not Learn At Your Own Time?

You may login to our learning management system (LMS) and take your training at a time that is convenient for you.

And you don’t have to worry about following our timetable or rearranging your schedule to meet our class schedules ever!

Open Enrollment – Let the Scheduling Work for You

Registration for our online classes is always open and because of this, you may enroll at any time.

This is quite unlike other vendors that force you to enroll on specific days or restrict enrollments to their own schedule.

Pause & Resume – Take A Break When You Want

You may pause or resume your training at will and you will never be penalized for doing that.

Use this to catch up with pressing work or life commitments and for taking vacations or time off.

This is in contrast to rigid classroom training that forces you to start or finish your at the same time as everyone else!

Progress Monitoring – How Are You Doing?

As you complete learning activities like quizzes and assignments, your grade is recorded in real-time on an online report card that doubles as your virtual transcript.

Your online report card gives a measurable, objective assessment of how you are doing at a glance.

Virtual Coaching – What Do You Want To Learn?

Your ability to post questions for your course instructor as you learn or progress through your material differentiates our training from other vendors that dump videos on you or leave you to figure it out by yourself!

Our instructors do not walk away because online collaboration is built right into our learning management system (LMS) as part of our core service offering and not as an afterthought!

Real Learning – Resources For Work

Did you know that you still retain login access to our learning management system even after your training is completed?

This access allows you to watch your training videos as often as you want or use those videos as a reference resource on the job!

For Utter Beginners or Experienced Professionals

Our classes take you from novice or utter beginner to advanced level topics in a step by step fashion with each lesson building on the topics taught in previous lessons so you don’t feel overwhelmed or dumped on!

We make no assumptions about your background and that is why we also teach all the pre-requisite knowledge as part our classes.

Practice Tests – Better or More Effective Online Learning

Use the online quizzes integrated into our learning management system (LMS) to improve your retention, comprehension or recall for work or job interview purposes.

Retrieval based tests have been scientifically proven to boost your ability to learn new information and that is why we recommend or use them.

In other words, taking our practice tests will help reduce the learning curve typically associated with mastering new concepts.

Assignments – Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice

We provide assignments similar to those performed on the job so that you get handson practice at solving problems.

Assignments matter because they help you practice putting your knowledge or skills to work in a safe, virtual environment before you tackle them in the real world.

Bridging that gap between what you know and what you can do, helps you become better, more confident and successful at work!

Comprehensive Learning – Stay Ahead of the Technology Curve

Information Technology (IT) skills easily become rusty or out-dated because of the rapid pace of technological change.

Besides, information changes so quickly and so often that keeping up with is a challenge for everyone.

But now, with our comprehensive online curriculum, you may enroll and catchup with what you really need to know just by signing up for a class!

Social Learning – Research Best Practices

While our private discussion groups are for you and the course instructors only, our public study groups are for you and other participants registered for the same course.

Use our public discussion groups for researching best practices employed at other organizations or for learning from other participants who may contribute helpful solutions challenges or problems facing you at work.

Affordable, Convenient & Effective Learning

Our online coaching or training offers are all based on the same premise:

Anyone (regardless) of their background should be able to learn from any location in the world at any time of the day or night that fits their geographic, life or work commitments.

  • We make learning more affordable by combining the information you need including both entry level and advanced topics in one course.

  • Our private, web-based, learning management system allows you to enroll when you want or pause and resume your training at your own convenience.

  • Using practice tests which have been scientifically proven to boost your ability to retain, recall or understand new material, we make your learning more effective.

Right now, we are fulfilling coaching and training services for a world-wide information technology audience which includes course participants from USA, Canada, UK, Australia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), India, South Africa and several other countries … so why don’t you join us?

Let us help make your knowledge or skills work. Our secret is the sequence: what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and for how long, so that it all make sense.

So, why not enroll right now in an online career coaching or online training class and learn how to make your knowledge or skills work?


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STOP, if you’re about to register for our training and read this post now because we are only interested in the right type of participants for our online bootcamp courses.

In many ways, we are not like traditional classroom classes or most training schools.

For example, we focus more on experiential learning in the sense that we want you to perform well on the job and not just have a certificate that you can show-off on your resume.

Click here to read our thoughts on experiential learning.

Do You Want To Build Handson Experience?

Finding the handson experience required to move up the ladder, transition into a career or find a new job is critical to career success.

Several years ago, just having a college degree was enough to get you hired and once you got a job, you worked for that employer, for a really long time!

Employers felt responsible for providing handson experience to students in college through internship programs or training for those who had a job.

But today, internship programs are hard to get because employers don’t want to take on the burden of training and a college degree no longer guarantees finding or keeping a job!

What employers are now looking for is proof of performance and not more diplomas, degrees or certifications.

When it comes to proof of performance, employers are of the mindset that your previous performance is the best proof of your future performance.

Please click here to read the article on “why employers want proof of your performance“.

So you have to supplement your training and professional development through personal initiative, traditional classes or online training bootcamps

Traditional classes do not help you develop skills or experience using tasks or assignments because that amount of work will be too much for a traditional school to handle.

In a traditional class, students have to start and complete their tasks within a set amount of time or that school loses money because the next class is delayed from starting!

But our online training bootcamps are not designed like traditional training classes.

Our students are given practical tasks or assignments which requires them to perform assigned activities with the knowledge or skills they’ve acquired.

Do You Want To Have Your Questions Answered?

In a traditional class, you may not want to ask questions that someone else thinks is dumb or you may not ask questions because your manager wants you to keep quiet or because the instructor just doesn’t have enough time to answer all the questions from all the participants!

Why can’t traditional classes entertain, encourage or answer all the questions from all the participants in a course?

Traditional classes can’t because they have a set start and end date and a limited amount of time within which the instructor must go over the course materials.

We do not have the limitations of a set starting time and a set closing time facing traditional classes!

Our online course participants may start their courses at any time or complete it earlier.

There are no limits to how many questions that you can ask and you don’t have the problems of someone judging your conversations or the appropriateness of your questions.

Because we use a learning management system, none of your questions is lost by the instructor in a bid to answer everyone else.

Do You Want To Be Personally Involved?

Unlike traditional online or classroom training, where you get a certificate regardless of your personal efforts, our assignments require your personal time and effort because they are reviewed and graded by us!

Our online training bootcamps requires non-trivial hard work which may be an issue, if you’re only interested in a passive learning experience.

When you enroll in our online boot camp training, you will watch videos, take practice tests, write assignments, perform research activities or perform any practical tasks assigned to you … all of which are required!

Our online courses are quite unlike traditional classes where you’re not given the chance to get your hands dirty!

Do You Want To Ace Your Job Interviews?

Have you ever been in a situation where you knew the answers to the interviewer’s questions but were unable to form an answer in your mind in good time?

What happened is that you weren’t able to form an effective verbal response because you hadn’t practiced recalling answers to similar questions until it became second nature.

That is exactly why we give you practice tests or quizzes in our online training bootcamps … so that you will be practiced at recalling or formulating the correct answers to interview questions in a timely fashion!

Click here to read this post on: how to ace job interviews using practice tests

Do You Want To Be A Top Performer On The Job?

Becoming the top performer is one of the best ways of securing your job because employers no long hire for keeps.

In other words, the moment an employer thinks that your performance is falling or that your skills are not as good as that of someone else, you are marked for firing!

Being knowledgeable about your job is not enough to protect or secure it!

You also need to be skilled at responding with the right answers or solutions in a timely manner because that assures your managers that you know what you are doing.

This is where our practice tests can help you.

You will retain, remember or recall answers or solutions easily … so that you’re always ready for the next challenge!

Do You Want To Take Your Career To The Next Level?

Regardless of where you are in your career: whether you are a beginner versus an expert, looking for a job versus working on your next career promotion, learning a new skill or refreshing the knowledge you already have … we can help.

Our help is not restricted to paying clients or customers only! We will help any of our readers by answering their most pressing career questions.

To get your questions answered promptly, post them as a response to any of our blog posts or Submit a question to [ASK IT Career Coach] here …

What Do You Want From Your Career?

We do not just provide you with the knowledge needed to get your job done, we also provide the real-world, practical education or skills required for your professional success!

So, if you are only interested in theoretical knowledge and you don’t care about building skills or learning how to perform tasks, then a traditional college or diploma course may be good for you.

On the other hand, if you want to build your knowledge, skills and experience using an interactive coaching or mentoring experience or if you are looking to apply your knowledge in a real job, then our online training bootcamps may be what you are looking for!


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We Give Feedback!

We Give Feedback!

One of the challenges of self teaching, self learning, CBT courses or traditional class room training is the lack of personalized, one on one performance review or feedback.

Training courses where both instructors and trainees can post or respond to questions are few and far in between.

This is the case even when you pay thousands of dollars for traditional class room training!

This is because training providers typically have an in-flexible curriculum and a set amount of training time to communicate their message!

  • Restricted Training Time: In traditional training courses, you have to learn all the information in a few days.

    Though the trainers may answer a couple of questions daily, they cannot take questions from everyone and also hope to cover their entire training curriculum by the end of the week!

    The good news is: we don’t have the restraints of an inflexible training curriculum or a set training time :-)

    You can login to our Web-Based Learning Management System and post questions or discussions on your own time and our course instructors can answer them on their own time.

    Our course instructors are not trying to rush you through the entire training curriculum in a week, so they can afford to engage your questions on a one to one, personalized basis!

  • College Tutoring: In traditional colleges, instructors get to know their students personally and they review student assignments before assigning grades.

    We have adopted the same learning process in our web-based, online learning management system.

    Each of your hands-on assignments are reviewed by a live, human course instructor before they are graded!

    In our web-based, online learning management system, the instructor may choose to post a discussion, comment or review of your assignment … just for you and not for anyone else.

    • Why Do We Incorporate Feedback In Training?

    So, the question is: knowing that feedback is expensive and time intensive, why do we still choose to include it in our training … at no additional cost?

    • We Make Training Interactive: we believe that more interactive training makes for a better experience.

      We emulate the learning that happens in the real world, where you are always receiving feedback from your bosses, co-workers, customers or friends.

    • We Make Training Effective: we believe that personalized, one on one training makes for better learning … especially in the information technology industry.

      Passive learning like the type you find in a lot of CBT (computer based training) or even information technology text books are usually too boring or tedious to be effective.

    • We Make Training Useful: we believe that IT professionals need more real-world feedback during training … before using their skills on the job!

      It is usually better to receive feedback in training because that is the only time when you are 100% certain that you can ask for feedback and improve or act on it without any adverse consequences!

    This post discusses how we make our online, web-based training more effective, interactive and useful by incorporating one on one personalized feedback or performance reviews.

    If you have any questions about our courses or online training services, be sure to contact us and we will answer it for you!


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    E-Learning: AnyTime + AnyPlace + AnyWhere

    E-Learning: AnyTime + AnyPlace + AnyWhere

    You always want to make sure that the training programs your attend match your career interests and aspirations, right? … so pay close attention to what I am about to say next.

    Effectiveness of Traditional Class Room Training

    Late last year I was mentoring, coaching and training a software development team. One of the members of the team had paid more than $6,000 (Six Thousand USD) for a class-room based training & certification program.

    To fund the training which required an upfront, full payment, he raided his savings account and took on additional debt.

    He would typically drive to the training vendor’s location 3 times a week, in the evenings and on weekends. He would then be assigned a computer and training manuals. Most of the times there was either no instructor present or there was no student to instructor interaction!

    The good news is that he got his certification alright, after about 6 months of rigorous study. When I was hired to coach and mentor the team, his IT Director complained to me that that he was the least effective team member on the job in-spite of his training and certification!

    To his credit, I would say that he was driven to learn and succeed … and he would have been doing better in his career, if someone had mentored him more effectively. Well, in spite of the fact that he was more certified and more trained (via the traditional class-room trainers), he was still the least paid and least regarded person in the office!

    The problem is that some of the traditional class-room training and certification programs that abound … only help students pass their certifications … but that is not what managers really care about. Managers care more about your ability to solve business problems fast, effectively and efficiently than on the type of training or certifications you acquire!

    Performance Enhancing Training

    I interact with a lot of IT professionals who have the right degrees or professional certifications or attended expensive training and certification programs and still can’t perform on the job!

    That is what my training focuses on … practical real-world skills … personal mentoring … access to a wealth of experience … relevant and comprehensive job-focused training curriculum! I only focus on what works and I drop all the garbage being taught in traditional class-room training that bears no relevance to your manager’s expectations and needs!

    I only focus on “hot / in-demand skills” and I do not waste my time or yours chasing down the rabbit trails of obscure training courses, which only serve to bloat up the training curriculum but do not improve your on the job knowledge, skills and performance … need I say more?

    Beginner To Expert Training

    “If you are apply and are accepted”, The Boot Camp Training programs will walk you from beginner to competent or highly-skilled in all the course offerings. Our Course Instructors will do their part in teaching you with Video, Quizzes, Assignments, One-On-One Direct Mentoring and other e-learning tools … the question for you is … “will you invest in your career, skills and personal success?”

    How Long Is The Boot Camp Training?

    Presently the SQL Boot Camp Training takes 16 weeks, the Business Analyst Boot Camp Training is 24 weeks and the Software Developer Boot Camp Training is 24 weeks. … here is a secret … for a limited time we are including the SQL Boot Camp free with the Software Developer Boot Camp!

    Who Attends An IT Professional Boot Camp?

    The IT Professional Boot Camp training programs is used both my IT Professionals who have a job and are looking to improve their skills and take their career to the next level as well as those who are unemployed and are in the market for a new job.

    The Cost Of IT Professional Training

    The training costs change from time to time. The best way to assess the cost for your training is to request for more information from the Boot Camp Training you are interested in. You may Click Here For More Information On Training & E-Books

    You may take advantage of the Early Bird Registration Discounts available for the Boot Camp Training Programs. Either way the cost of the web-based Boot Camp Training is guaranteed to be a fraction of the cost of traditional class-room training programs.

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    How To Become A Data Analyst

    How To Become A Data Analyst

    The data analyst career is one of the popular Information Technology (IT) career tracks available today.

    The term data analyst is loosely associated with business data analysts, systems analysts, database analysts, reporting specialists, data researchers, statistical data analysts or marketing data analysts!

    However, in this article, I will explain who a data analyst really is and provide a career roadmap or plan for becoming a data analyst.

    Who Is A Data Analyst?

    The term data analyst refers to someone who works with data or makes sense of the information buried in raw data or draws inferences and conclusions from it.

    A data analyst is someone who performs queries or mines data for information or nuggets of insight and information.

    According to Wikipedia, data analysis is the process of looking at or summarizing data with the intent of extracting useful information and developing conclusions.

    What Is The Job Outlook For Data Analysts?

    There is an increasing need to aggregate information in databases and analyze, research or query it for meaning, clues, trends or insight that will help organizations do better or become more competitive in their marketplace.

    This trend to store and analyze vast quantities of data at every level of business has spawned the “Analytics” industry.

    For example, when you visit a website at Amazon.com or NetFlix or Ebay, your visit history is stored and analyzed by a group of people known as web analysts who specialize in analyzing web visitor data.

    The data analyst is growing in importance because of the trend towards storing and analyzing increasing amounts of data, so that organizations can compete based on insight, information and intelligence gleaned from their databases.

    Data Analyst Roles and Responsibilities

    If you are looking for a data analyst job or position, make sure you can demonstrate the skills listed below on your resume when you apply for a data analyst position:

    1. You must demonstrate the ability to analyze large data sets
    2. You must show an expert ability to analyze, research or query data using SQL
    3. You must have the ability to report on data using enterprise, industry standard reporting tools like SQL Server Reporting Services, Crystal Reports and Business Objects
    4. You must have logical, problem solving skills.
    5. You must have strong analytical skills
    6. You must be able to present, interpret, discuss or write about the conclusions, inferences and results gained from researching data
    7. You must be able to analyze data in Excel, prepare Excel spreadsheets or PowerPoint presentation to explain your results.
    8. You must be able to research concepts and issues on the Internet using search engines and other web based research tools

    Data Analyst Job Interviews

    Job interviews typically address all the positions on your resume.

    So, if you present a data analyst resume to an employer, you must be able to talk intelligently about all the positions, skills and responsibilities listed on that resume.

    In addition, you may expect a data analyst job interview to include database design interview questions, database development interview questions, and SQL interview questions.

    So you will must have SQL coding and Database Development skills.

    You also need to have a strong mastery of a variant of SQL like T-SQL and database development on a specific enterprise database platform like Microsoft SQL Server.

    Here is a link you can use to get all the data analyst education (statistical data analysis), relational database training and SQL query writing training you will need to fulfill your data analyst roles and responsibilities. Click here for more information on online data analyst training.

    Finally, you need to understand trend analysis . For example, given a SQL Server marketing database, you need to be able to search for patterns or identify trends using SQL queries or T-SQL queries to be exact.

    How Do Data Analyst Jobs Compare To Business Analyst Jobs Or Computer Programmer Jobs?

    1. How does a data analyst job compare to a business analyst job?

    One way of comparing the data analyst’s job to the business analyst’s job is to say that the data analyst majors on database analysis or data analysis while the business analyst focuses on business process analysis.

    The data analyst is expected to be an expert at querying databases using SQL, writing reports in Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services or Business Objects and analyzing or presenting data in Microsoft Excel.

    On the other hand, the business analyst focuses on requirements analysis, UML, Use Cases and business process improvement.

    2. How does a data analyst job compare to a computer programmer job?

    Computer programmers focus more on the design and development of database applications and software applications.

    Computer programmers need to master all aspects of the software development life cycle, database design, database development, web and windows application development and data reporting.

    Data analysts focus on database analysis, database design, data preparation, data quality and data reporting.

    Online Data Analyst Training Opportunities

    One of the technical skills that is most in demand for data analyst positions is the ability to research data stored in relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft Access (MS Access), Microsoft SQL Server using SQL.

    The beginner to advanced online data analyst training offered on Data Analysts Boot Camp covers the training requirements for data analyst positions.

    Be sure to register at Data Analysts Boot Camp for more information on data analyst online training opportunities.


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