First Alternative - About the Company

Fast-Track your way to success - Bespoke Courses for Individuals

First Alternative now offer a truly unique service - a training programme designed and delivered for individuals.

Many computing professionals have a need for this type of service
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It's often the case that you need to learn a new skill and perhaps become a certified practitioner.

You already have a degree of understanding, and perhaps practical experience, of your required skill.

You don't feel that you should have to sit through a whole series of courses to reach a goal, when you know that some of the material will already be familiar to you, but what choice to you have?

Read on.....

The Unbelieveably Flexible First Alternative...
We'll design and run a course just for you, based at our Newark centre. We'll provide full course notes, and the use of as many computer systems as needed.
We'll discuss course content with you, then provide you with a detailed course description for your agreement, which will include an estimate of duration based upon daily 9-5 hours. (We don't like small print either, or services which come with all sorts of conditions attached, but we do need to limit this service to a minimum of 2 days to make it feasible for us to offer)
How much does this cost?

The Unbelieveably Cost-Effective First Alternative...
Each day is £450 + VAT "Time dedicated to you" to coin a phrase. (£2250 per week)
2 days minimum, lunch and refreshments provided. You have to pay for travel and any hotel costs involved.
Example:-
Sy Sadmin wants to achieve his SCSA (Solaris Certified Systems Administrator).
We've had a long chat with him and exchanged a few emails. Turns out he's already got some Linux from Uni and has used Solaris as a developer and in his job Applications Support Engineer, so he's quite strong in certain areas, but never touched others.
We put a course description together for him, and after a couple of minor amendments we have an agreed 3-day course, which is going to cost him £1350 + VAT
It's not difficult to see the benefits, both technically and financially, when you see an example like this.

Other examples where this type of arrangement would be suitable:-

Sol Ayte is very experienced with Solaris (guess which version?) but has a new contract coming up which needs Solaris 10 skills. He has some Solaris 10 from playing with the Intel version at home. 3 days with us and he'll be ready to sit his Solaris 10 Certification update.

Gary from the Canary Islands has lots of Solaris but his organisation is getting into Linux in a big way. A week with us gives him advanced RedHat/Centos ES skills, with plenty of practical sessions during the week to bolster his confidence, and allowing him to get straight into Linux mainstream activities back at work (True story!)

The Uniquely Supportive First Alternative...
Our training support does not finish when the course does. We offer real support as you implement what you have learned. We have informal post-course help to answer delegates' questions. From our Web Site, you can download information used on your course so that you can practice back at the office on non-live data. If what you need to know is not on the curriculum we make sure you won't go cuckoo if you've got a problem. The site also contains a number of useful technical tips.

Click here to make an enquiry, or telephone us on +44(0)1636 893673
Email: mick@firstalt.co.uk

Mick Hosegood, First Alternative, January 2010