Office Skills Diploma

This Office Skills Diploma is available in our Pitman Training Centres in Scotland.

Most businesses use the same software packages and handle the day to day running of their office in much the same way. So that’s why our Office Skills Diploma has been designed to teach you the basic skills you will need to a level demanded by most employers, including computer keyboard skills, Microsoft Office and bookkeeping.

What’s more, to ensure you understand how a business works and how to communicate effectively with other employees, your diploma will also cover communication at work and health and safety. So with your completed diploma, you’ll have a great breadth of skills and the confidence to work in many different office based roles.

Overview:

Base your choices around your desired career development path. Your course advisor will be able to help you choose from a wider selection to suit your needs. You could learn great IT skills, how to speak the language of business, book-keeping, computer keyboard techniques for speed and accuracy and effective business communication. In fact, with this diploma, you will have a diverse range of skills, which will enable you to take your career in any direction.

Choose four of the following:

Typing: We offer a full range of typing courses whether you’re a beginner or need to reach top speeds with maximum accuracy.

Typaz Speed
If you want to build speed and accuracy then consider our Typaz Speed touch-typing course. Lasting 15 hours, the course will take you to speeds of 40-60 words per minute

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

Microsoft Excel and Excel Expert: 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 much more. 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: This course is extremely wide-ranging covering, to name just a few topics, running slide shows, planning and designing presentations, applying themes, inserting slides from Word, drawing and resizing shapes, charts and spreadsheets, using flowcharts,
viewing and editing comments, transition effects and hyperlinks.

Bookkeeping Transactions and Controls - Part 1

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.

Effective Business Communication: This excellent course will raise your game when it comes to business communication skills. Effective communication skills are top of the list of qualities demanded by employers, it’s an essential skill to master. Split into eight lessons, your business communication training begins with examining English language skills before looking at the use of the appropriate tone.

Sage 50 Accounts: You’ll need a good knowledge of manual bookkeeping to take this course, which is specially designed for people wanting to be proficient and confident in Sage 50. It will equip you with the skills you need to get a good job in an accounts department, or to work for yourself by offering accounting administration services to local firms.

Employers are always on the lookout for people with practical, work-ready skills who can add value to their business from day one. So if you have just left college, are wanting to work in an office environment or are coming back in to the world of employment, the Office Skills Diploma could be the ideal training for you.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

An excellent qualification for those wishing to get their first job in an office environment. Especially suited to giving all round skills that may be appreciated in administration of a small office team.