Passed with Distinction

[sally_maria]

It's not as high-powered as cadiliniel 's exams but I'm celebrating the fact that I got a distinction on my last assessment.

Since Christmas I've been doing a City and Guilds Diploma in IT in the evenings at my local college. (It's all very well telling employers I've been using PCs for the last 12 years, but they like to have the piece of paper.) The distinction was for the Word Processing element - now I know how to do mail-merges and insert clip art of vegetables into my documents.

Oh well, on to IT Principles and Spreadsheets.

Comments

[cadiliniel.livejournal.com]

Yay, well done! :-D

[sally_maria]

Thank you.

[wildfyre.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Congrats! *joins smilie in groovacious dance thingy*

[sally_maria]

Thank you very much.

He's fun, isn't he? I have an extension to Firefox with about 200 different smilies, but it isn't often I get to use the more interesting ones.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Funny how employers want meaningless bits of paper isn't it? And then there're all these articles about people lying in their CVs ... hmmm

Could be worse, when I was signing on last the DSS staff had been told they needed to ge NVQs to show they could talk to people about signing on/applying for jobs ... like what a transferable skill that would be! ^_~

[sally_maria]

When I was at Index, they were encouraging people to do NVQs in customer service - which is at least transferable, though not something I would have said you could learn from a book. NVQs in the job you're already doing seems pretty ridiculous.

I must admit some of it is just that I enjoy learning new things, but apart from the spreadsheets - which is quite fun, like logic puzzles - most of it has been fairly basic.