Business IT Diploma

Designed for:

Individuals who wish to gain essential office and computer skills to use in today’s fast paced business environments

Objectives:

To provide you with vital business skills to apply for office jobs with complete confidence

Course Content

• Computer Keyboard Skills – Learn how to touch type accurately, using the correct keyboard technique.
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• Keyboard Speed Development – Develop your typing speed to improve productivity using graded copying exercises and timed dictations. A number of stages are available, taking you up to a speed of 70 wpm.

• Effective Business Communication – Learn to communicate effectively in business – by letter, email, telephone and personal presentations.

• Microsoft Word – Learn word processing skills to a good business standard. This course will enable you to create professional looking documents, produce tables, insert pictures and much more.
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• Microsoft Word Expert – Learn advanced word processing skills including mail merge, creating and running macros, creating an index, table of contents and more.

• Microsoft Excel – Learn spreadsheet skills to a good business standard. This course will enable you to create a spreadsheet, enter data, formulas and functions, create charts and more.
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• Microsoft Excel Expert – Learn advanced spreadsheet skills, covering areas such as importing and exporting data, creating and using templates, linking workbooks, data management, using analysis tools and pivot tables.

• Microsoft Outlook – Learn how to share, manage and schedule information electronically. Covers the use of email, electronic calendar, scheduling meetings and appointments, creating and assigning tasks and creating address lists.

• Microsoft PowerPoint – Gain competency in creating slide presentations. Areas covered include formatting, inserting tables, pictures, sound, hyperlinks, and applying transition and timing effects to a slide show.
 

Please discuss the options with your Course Advisor

Benefits
 Equip you to start a new career.
 The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace.
 Personalised workbooks to use as a reference guide on completion of your training.
 The opportunity to gain a Pitman Training Diploma that is recognised nationally and internationally by employers.

Guideline Learning Time: 4 weeks full-time* (120 hours flexi study)
* based on 20-30 hours a week