Pitman Training Cardiff
Welcome to Pitman Training Cardiff.
You’ll find a friendly, relaxed atmosphere at our modern and spacious training centre overlooking Cardiff Castle, within walking distance from city centre bus and train stations.
Our Cardiff team members have all been Pitman Training students and now enjoy supporting others to achieve their goals. Alongside our training expertise, we can draw on extensive experience in fields like HR, finance, web design and marketing.
We are knowledgeable about the local employment market and help many individuals kick-start their careers. We deal with a variety of recruitment agencies and local businesses, which frequently contact us with live vacancies. Moreover, our regular FREE CV and Career Clinics further boost our students’ prospects.
We are a provider of Welsh Assembly Government schemes such as ReAct, ProAct and Want 2 Work. For details, please contact Careers Wales on 0800 100 900. We also deliver courses to a range of corporate, public sector and charity clients.
We are open six days a week, including three late evenings, giving you the flexibility to come in when it suits you.
Our specialist accreditations here in Cardiff include: -
- Microsoft Office Academy (Advanced) and CompTIA - The syllabus of our Microsoft Courses runs in line with the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams. Our CompTIA courses are accredited with CompTIA.
- IAB/AAT and Sage - Our book-keeping and finance courses run in line with the International Association of Book-keepers (IAB) and therefore also AAT. We are an accredited training provider with IAB. Both new Sage courses are also accredited by Sage directly.
- OCR - Our typing, administration, audio transcription and shorthand courses run in line with various OCR qualifications. We are an approved and accredited OCR centre and offer a full range of relevant qualifications.
- City & Guilds – AMSPAR - Our Medical Secretary courses are approved by AMSPAR (The Association of Medical Secretaries, Practice Managers, Administrators and Receptionists). We are an approved City & Guilds centre and therefore have the privilege of holding the AMSPAR examinations three times a year.
- BCS - We are an approved BCS centre (British Computer Society) and therefore deliver the ECDL and all relevant qualifications.
Contact us today and we will be delighted to help!
Local Offers
Pitman Training Cardiff Scholarship
Every month we invite a deserving student into our scholarship programme. The individual can upgrade their training for free and also gain a month’s work experience.
Student of the Month
Every month, our experienced training supervisors nominate a Student of the Month. The lucky students win this prestigious title and a £20 gift voucher of their choice.
Funded training opportunities
Pitman Training Cardiff provides various government-funded training schemes including ReAct, ProAct, Want 2 Work, and JobMatch. However, these are not suitable for every student, so please contact us to find out more.
News and Events
Student of the month – April 2012
Congratulations to Linda Moran our student of the month! Linda has been a hard working student throughout her course. Her dedication and hard work has paid off and Linda has now completed her course! The whole team has enjoyed having Linda training with us and have found her a true inspiration. We wish her all the luck for the future, well done Linda!
Linda said-
“I am completely shocked at being chosen as 'Student of the Month', but very flattered. All I can say is that after my very 'shakey' start and nearly falling at the first hurdle, I must thank you all for your encouragement, understanding and kindness. Although not top of the class, I have learned an awful lot and have a great sense of achievement at getting through and completing the course. It is true...you are never too old!!!!! Thank you all once again and all I have to do now is get a new job!! Keep up the good work you are a great team.”
PA of the Year Awards 2011
Congratulations to Julie Monkley from Lloyds Banking Group who was awarded the Park Plaza PA of the Year 2011 Award!! Congratulations also to Catrin Parry-Jones from Fusion who won the Up & Coming PA!! We look forward to working with you both.
Pitman Training student launches new business!
Congratulations to Sue Harding who has successfully launched her own Activity and Events company ‘Giggle’! Sue has completed her Business IT with Marketing and PR Diploma and is excited to have set up her company and follow her dream! Sue said “The marketing module has come in really handy for teaching me techniques to create adverts and the PR module was brilliant for creating press releases.” Good Luck with your new venture and well done Sue!
Pitman Training student continues professional development and exceeds in new job!
Well done to Trish Michael for completing her Business IT with HR Diploma, which she studied with us between jobs. Since landing her new role as a PA/Office Manager, Trish has used her new skills and has impressed her new employers with her knowledge and having the ability to go that extra mile within the work place. Trish said “The course content has had a significant and positive impact on my career”. Trish is already thinking about her next course and is being nominated by her new managing director for the PA of the Year! Congratulations Trish!
Testimonials
Here are a few testimonials from people who've trained with us here at Pitman Training Cardiff: -
Janet Barlett- Medical Secretarial Diploma
“Pitman Training has been the perfect training option for me as it provides a friendly low pressure environment with flexible hours which easily fit around other commitments. Expert tutors are always on hand and nothing is ever too much trouble for them. Recent redundancy and ill health had taken my confidence away but Pitman Training has now given it back to me.”
Suzan Akut- Legal Secretarial Diploma
“I want to thank all the staff at Pitman Training Cardiff for their support and concern during my training. I enrolled to study the Legal Secretarial Diploma. The Pitman Training staff were very cooperative and nice. During the training, it was challenging at first because I was learning a lot of new computer skills and secondly because I was pregnant!! But the staff made everything seem so easy, they answered my questions and resolved all my challenges in an amicable and professional manner. I enjoyed my training and hopefully it will enhance my career as the course content is very rich. I encourage anyone and everyone to make Pitman Training their choice for Legal Secretarial Training.”
Christine Lloyd - Secretarial Certificate
“I would like to tell you about my own experience at Pitman Training, first of all the relaxed atmosphere is great. The training team are all fantastic nothing is too much trouble, they are all very helpful, very pleasant and most discreet. Pitman Training has helped me choose a different career path, which hopefully will lead onto a more interesting and better paid job! I will definitely be recommending Pitman Training in the future!”
Alison Crowley- Microsoft Office Certificate
“I was both surprised and delighted to be chosen as Student of the Month. After being settled in a job I very much enjoyed for 20 years I was unfortunately made redundant. After research and much consideration I chose Pitman Training as the training vehicle to take me forward, my decision was based both on course content and Pitman Trainings universal reputation. On my first day here I felt that I had a mountain to climb never believing with my limited IT experience that I would be able to take on board so much new knowledge, the weeks ahead seemed daunting, however I have grown in confidence thanks to the patience, the support and the words of encouragement I have been given from Lisa, Dave, Rhian and all the other members of the Pitman Team, thank you!”
Lisa Samuel - from the factory floor to Training Supervisor
Course completed: Business IT Diploma with HR Job secured: Training Supervisor Lisa always felt she could achieve much more and longed for a career within an office environment. Lisa decided to improve her skills, so she would have something to offer future employers. Lisa completed the Business I... Read more
Nicola Williams - from a call centre to Executive PA
Course completed: Executive PA Diploma Job secured: Executive PA Nicola had always dreamt of being an Executive PA and was unhappy in her customer service job at a local call centre. To help make her dream come true, Nicola completed the Executive PA Diploma; fitting her studies around her work an... Read more
Our Seminars
If you are interested in Seminars for yourself or your staff then please contact us on 02920 290575 to find out more and to discuss how we can tailor these to your needs.
Jobs
We have established good working relationships with some of the local recruitment agencies. To find out the latest local jobs in the Cardiff area, follow the links below: -
