Training courses in Portlaoise

CompTIA A+ provides the knowledge and skills necessary for a career in PC support. This course is designed to help you learn the skills required to gain an internationally recognised and endorsed IT accreditation.

An understanding of how to utilise Microsoft Access to its best is a highly worthwhile skill to have at your command. This is a popular database application is widely used across many employment sectors.

The Accounting Technician diploma combines the excellence of Pitman Training’s reputation and practical learning with industry leading knowledge from AAT, the professional body for accountancy with the ultimate aim of gaining an AAT Certificate in Accounting qualification.

Pitman specialises in offering world-class secretarial training and this diploma will provide you with a high-level, well-rounded administrative skillset that will impress any potential employer.

The full suite comprises Dreamweaver CC, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, Flash CC and Premiere Pro CC. This award lets you choose any three of these programmes and tailor the training to your requirements.

A comprehensive Accounts training programme, this Diploma will give you skills across a range of areas including Bookkeeping, Sage, Payroll and more. At the end of this programme you’ll be well versed in the practical processes and procedures required to maintain a businesses financial records.

This Level 3 accounting diploma combines the excellence of Pitman Training’s reputation and practical learning with industry leading qualifications from AAT, the professional body for accountancy.

A comprehensive training programme, suitable for beginners, designed to give you book-keeping and accounting knowledge. This diploma will also prepare you to gain a Level 2 and 3 AAT Qualification.

The Advanced IT Support Technician Diploma could be your route to a job as a network or system administrator. It’s intended for anyone already in an IT role who has a responsibility for network maintenance and management.

A comprehensive Legal Secretary Diploma, this programme is designed to give you the specialist knowledge and understanding that is required to work as a secretary within the legal profession or the legal department of a large firm.

Audio Transcription is a valuable skill to gain, with applications in many industry sectors. This course will help you learn how to operate audio transcribing equipment and become proficient in document transcription.

The aim of this course is to increase your timing and audio transcription proficiency. You’ll also have the skills required to progress to the OCR qualification in Audio Transcription Level 2.

This course stages by exploring and using other people’s blogs to gain exposure, to creating and managing your own blog, producing and distributing posts through social media channels, and building a network of fellow bloggers.

This award focuses on three core bookkeeping courses designed to help you learn the workings of a manual bookkeeping system. On successful completion, you could opt to undertake relevant examinations to gain an AAT qualification.

Pitman Training’s Bookkeeping Diploma with AAT qualification is suitable for anyone keen to develop bookkeeping and spreadsheets skills for an accounting role containing 5 core courses and the option to tailor the diploma more to your requirements with 2 additional elective courses.

People with strong bookkeeping skills are always in demand. This course is designed to give you an advantage over others with less experience, teaching you double-entry bookkeeping.

This course is the second module designed to further your bookkeeping studies using the double entry system so you can keep accurate bookkeeping records.

This third bookkeeping module covers many areas including using the journal, and year end accounts which include the profit and loss account and balance sheet.

The Business Award has been created for people who need to understand the legal structures and financial mechanics of business.

Text processing, whether it’s part of secretarial training or another discipline, is an integral part of business document production. This course consists of four simple but comprehensive lessons ensuring you cover every aspect of the speciality.

The Business Startup diploma offers an excellent opportunity to enhance vital, professional skills development for any prospective new business owner.

This highly engaging course will teach you all of the basics and how to use and interpret Java programming language. The Pitman Java Course also covers all the requirements to pass the Oracle Java Associate exam: 1Z0-850.

The Pitman Training Communication for IT Specialists course is designed to help you effectively engage with your audience specifically geared around IT related businesses.

This e-learning course is different to most communication courses in that it focuses on the way that communications and information are managed within an organisation rather than personal communication techniques.

The CompTIA Cloud+ course is designed for those that already have experience in the IT industry and who now wish to work in a Cloud Computing environment and need technical understanding of cloud infrastructure and environment.

The online Cloud Essentials course will teach you essential knowledge about Cloud computing from a technical and business perspective, giving you a great foundation of Cloud Computing knowledge.

Invaluable for anyone responsible for accounts or setting pricing within a business, this short course is something we’re sure you’ll get true value from, in terms of real pound signs!

If you’re interested in a career in web design, this course will help you learn how to work with the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) language. This common language gives you more control over how your web pages look and appear.

If you are new to management, looking for promotion or to broaden your opportunities, this course will give you key insights into successful leadership and how to make the most of your own leadership attributes.

If you are new to management, looking for promotion or to broaden your opportunities, this course will give you key insights into successful leadership and how to make the most of your own leadership attributes.

This course is for people wanting to gain an understanding and grounding in using the internet, online safety and broader digital skills such as digital photography, social networking, digital media and much more.

Dreamweaver is a common program used in the Web Design industry. Through the study of this course you will build your knowledge and practical experience in the CC version of this renowned program.

This is the professionally-written route to gaining your ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) qualification. The course is split into different modules that focus on subjects such as Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and IT fundamentals. All the modules are designed to give you the skills you need to fit your future career plans.

This excellent course will raise your game when it comes to business communication skills which is often top of the list of qualities demanded by employers.

Communication is a key, must-have skill in today’s employment market. This short online course will help prove to employers that you’re able to communicate confidently and effectively online to different audiences.

A more condensed version of the longer Diploma, the Event Management Award will help you gain an increased confidence in planning and running events.

Vital for anyone who would like to be involved in organising events, the training within this Diploma brings together all the elements you need to produce memorable, stress-free, successful events.

Learn some tricks of the trade and really get to grips with event project management to ensure your events are always ones people are talking about for all the right reasons.

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level and you can choose which version you’d like to study; 2013 or 2010. Over 10 self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to format your spreadsheet to best display your information, handle simple and complex formulas, insert charts, learn…

Our Excel Expert level course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this popular spreadsheet programme to an advanced level. You can choose whether you’d like to study 2013 or 2010 and over a series of self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to perform tasks such as conditional formatting, recording and running macros,…