Is This for You?

This course is great for anyone who works in Office Administration and would like to save time and effort when typing up letters, reports etc. It can be studied at times to suit you so you can build up your skills in your free time around existing work and family commitments.

Award and Associated Qualifications

Awarded 42 CPD points upon successful completion

Start Date
Flexible
Study Type
In centre, online, or a combination
Training Type
Course
Duration
Around 42 hours

About This Course

An online touch typing course, typaz professional lets you learn to touch type with greater speed and accuracy at locations to suit you – our dedicated training centres, at work or home with full flexibility to suit your timetable.

Over 10 keyboard lessons and more, we’ll train you to high proficiency. This touch typing course also carries the prestigious Pitman Training name – well worth having. Accuracy, speed, ergonomics and good technique are all on the menu, and the software is cleverly designed to adapt to your individual learning path. Your workbook, which accopanies your touch typing lessons is yours to keep at the end of your course.

You’ll be ideally placed to move on to our Effective Business Communication or Microsoft Office courses. Pitman Training also offers some of the most highly respected secretarial diplomas anywhere – so if you really want to enhance your career prospects and earning potential, why not consider one our Secretarial Diploma?

What is included in this course?

There are 10 lessons in this course which build your proficiency step-by-step and builds on skills learnt in the previous lessons. At the end of each lesson you can either do further practice with an extension exercise or, if you feel ready, move onto the next lesson.

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Aims and Objectives

Typaz Professional will teach you how to touch-type quickly and accurately and, speeds of up to 60 wpm (words per minute) are definitely achievable.

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites required for this course.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

  • Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;
  • You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

What we can help with:

  • Providing a comprehensive training programme outlining learning outcomes
  • Tailored personnel letters
  • Communication with finance departments to arrange payment options (upfront or payment plan*).

Funding & Grants:
There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

Whilst gaining proficient touch-typing skills will help no matter your career choice, having such skills can lead to rewarding office administration careers such as Secretary, Senior Administrator, Personal Assistant (PA).

What’s the Difference?

We offer a range of training packages in a range of subject areas and can offer blended learning opportunities to best meet your needs.

Our courses are practical in nature and focus on a single subject and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days.

Diplomas are designed to give you a complete skillset mapped to a specific career path and contain a number of core and elective courses.