The aim of this set of notes is to provide some guidance for those students wishing to access Industry and (Australian) government training subsidies in order to gain employment or increase their skills.

What are training subsidies?

Various Australian state, industry and Commonwealth agencies offer subsides for training. The aim is to increase the skills of those already in the work force and to provide those who are re-entering the workforce with 'refresher training' so that skills are updated.

Design Cad works with employment agencies to provide computer software training. Your first step should be to contact one of the employment agencies and ask about training supplements and subsidies.

Here is a link to a web site maintained by one such training organisation -EmploySA .

Presently unemployed?

Public (government) funds can be used to provide training in current employment technologies and so increase the skills of workers so as to enable them to re-enter the workforce.

You can become eligible for a training subsidy in a number of different ways:

• Work for the dole - 'bank' some training credits by taking part in approved work for the dole scheme.

• Register in the Job Network program

Presently employed

A number of industries offer training subsidies:

• Group training schemes - Building industry, Plumbing etc.

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Linking with us - determine your training needs

You first step in determining a suitable training program for your needs should be to make sure that you understand what it is that you want to achieve i.e. you need to define your aims at the outset. It is important that you put together a training package that will lead to a measurable outcome - gaining a job or clearly upgrading your skills in the present job.

We offer training either in-house or via distance learning.

Our distance learning program

• If you are thinking about enrolling on one of our courses via distance learning, we would like you to try out a "Sample CAD course" - this is a Computer Aided Design course, but it will give you some idea of the quality of our materials,

• Our courses contain many instructional movies and we want to be reassured that your equipment works with the movies that we make to illustrate the use of Excel commands so play at least one of our sample movies embedded in the home page of this web site  (there are many example).

• Make sure that you have a copy of the software that you wish to learn on your computer and establish that it works before ordering a course.

Q. Are these courses delivered "in house" or by external study?

As mentioned, our courses can be taken on a one on one (or small group basis) in our training facility at the University of Adelaide Commerce and Research Precinct, Thebarton, South Australia. We also run courses in Canberra, ACT on a regular basis. Alternatively, courses can be completed via our distance learning program which is supported by email contact between our Excel tutors and students.

Q. Is some form of certification provided?

Yes. We provide all students with a "Certificate of Achievement". A statement that a student has reached a satisfactory standard and completed a competent set of working examples can also be added on request. Click here to view a copy of the certificate.

Q. Do you need a copy of the software program that you wish to learn loaded on your computer?

Yes.

Q. What methods of payment do you offer?

If you take a course as a distance student, on receipt of an official order from your company (a purchase order) or email note from you if you are studying privately, we will ship a CD-ROM (with a personal password to unlock modules in the course) and a set of course notes. An invoice will be included in the package. Payment can be made by direct deposit to our bankers (BankSA). Details of our bank account is included on the invoice.

If you wish to pay by credit card, we use the PayPal system (www.paypal.com). PayPal offers a very secure system for processing payment across the Internet and takes all major credit cards. PayPal acts as an intermediary between you and Design Cad. They will hold your credit card details (not us) and hold payment to us until you notify PayPal that you have received the course materials in good order.

More information on our distance learning program can be found by clicking here. To enrol, click here.

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