LEAVE NO EMPLOYEE BEHIND
WITH THE SKILLS BOOTCAMPS
Upskill or reskill your team in tech with funded Skills Bootcamps
About Skills Bootcamps
Dimple Khagram, Purple Beard Training CEO about Skills Bootcamps:
‘Purple Beard Training is delighted to have won the Skills Bootcamps contract in the regions and join the Government’s mission to rebuild the post-Covid world. During the past 18 months, individuals and businesses have struggled on many different levels and were forced to navigate through unpredictable landscape shifts. The UK workforce must meet the demand to reshape and transition themselves. Purple Beard is here to help with that by boosting and building talent pipelines. Our Skills Bootcamps in DevOps, Cloud Computing and Digital Leadership have been designed to address the gaps in the digital space and support the UK’s economic recovery by creating work-ready employees and retraining existing employees with our high-quality tech skills training.’’
All courses are equivalent to level 3 course (A-Level)
What are Skills Bootcamps?
Skills Bootcamps are flexible courses of up to maximum 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer.
Skills Bootcamps have been developed by the Government in partnership with employers, providers and local authorities, to help people develop the skills that are in demand in their local area and get a better job. They are a part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Plan for Jobs strategies.
There is a task to raise awareness and drive uptake of these exciting new courses at a national level, so the greatest number of people can benefit, and so the public, employers and stakeholders can see momentum building around this kind of innovative reskilling model
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What is the cost of a Bootcamp?
Under the ‘Plan for Jobs’ scheme, residents of certain regions in the UK e.g. East Midlands can attend Skills Bootcamps with 70% of the costs funded by the Government. The government published ‘Skills for Jobs’ which outlines the need to give employers a greater say in the development of skills in current employees and to be able to create a pipeline of talent for new positions or apprenticeships.
The contribution of the employer, for their employees to develop the skills in any of the pathways, would be £699 plus VAT per person. The contribution would cover the cost of Vendor exams (optional).Â
Employers can also support the contribution via a mixture of cash and in kind contribution (30% in kind and the remaining cash) however in this case the contribution would not cover the vendor exam. In kind, contributions could be supporting with Projects, providing employees time off to do the Bootcamp, providing mentoring and hands on support to develop during the Bootcamps. Alternatively Employers can also work with us to take on the talent we develop through the Bootcamps via a work placement, an Apprenticeship or a Job and make a small contribution to use the service.
Skills Bootcamps Eligibility for participants:
- They must be 19+ years of age.Â
- They must either live and work in the East of England or East Midlands
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Staff who are employedÂ
- Furloughed staffÂ
- Staff at risk of redundancy Â
SKILLS BOOTCAMP IN AWS CLOUD COMPUTING - SEE FULL INFORMATIONÂ HERE.Â
- Certificate of Completion
- 70% Funding Available
Modules:
- Introduction to architecting in the cloud
- Design Resilient Architectures
- Design High-Performing Architectures
- Design Secure Applications and Architectures
- Design Cost-Optimized Architectures
About:
Architecting on AWS covers the fundamentals of building IT infrastructure on AWS. The course is designed to teach solutions architects how to optimize the use of the AWS cloud by understanding AWS services and how these services fit into cloud-based solutions.
Who is it for?
AWS Solutions Architect is intended for learners with one or more years of hands-on experience on the AWS cloud. By the end of the course, the learner will be prepared to pass the associate-level AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification exam.
Pre-requisites:Â
1 year of experience on AWS or previous networking/ IT engineering experience.
Core tools and technologies:
- AWS sandbox
In addition:
- Presentation skills
- Portfolio development
- Employability and interview skills
- Â LinkedIn visibility skills
- Communication skills
- Soft skills such as – team work, empathy, problem solving, critical thinking
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SKILLS BOOTCAMP IN DEVOPS ENGINEERING - SEE FULL INFORMATIONÂ HERE.
- Certificate of Completion
- 70% Funding Available
- Optional Exam
About:
DevOps has a set of processes to bridge the gap between software development and IT teams.
Traditionally development, testing, and operations were considered separate. But now DevOps has brought forth a strong alliance between these different teams. DevOps methodology emphasizes automation so that there is more bandwidth for communication and collaboration between the development, testing, and operations teams.
Who is it for?
The experienced developers (Software, web), Cloud engineers, IT operations engineers who arelooking to move into a DevOps role
Pre-requisites:
- Scripting Languages such as Unix, or Linux or Bash script;Â OR
- 1 year of coding experience in Javascript or Python; OR
- 6+ months of job experience in IT or Development;Â OR
- 6+ months of job experience in testing environmentsÂ
Career progression:
DevOps engineer, Software engineer on a DevOps team , Cloud native engineer. DevSecOps (with further study)
Core tools and technologies:
- AWS cloud
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ChefÂ
- Grafana
Modules:
- Intro to DevOps
- SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
- Source Code Management
- Configuration Management
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Testing
- Continuous Monitoring
- Containerization
- Cloud native
In addition:
- Presentation skills
- Portfolio development
- Employability and interview skills
- LinkedIn visibility skills
- Communication skills
- Soft skills such as – teamwork, empathy, problem-solving, critical thinking Â
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SEE FULL INFORMATIONÂ HERE.
- Certificate of Completion
- Â 70%Â Funding Available
About:
The Frontend is the part of a website or web application that a user directly interacts with, also referred to as ‘client-side’. Frontend Developers marry design and development to optimise these sites for users and search engines.
Every Frontend Developer needs to have an understanding of:Â HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.Â
Who is it for:
Anyone looking to get into Software Development
Pre-requisites:
Basic IT skills
During this Skills Bootcamp you'll learn:
- Installfest and Intro to Frontend Development
- Developing webpages using HTML,
- Styling webpages using CSS,
- Adding functionalities to HTML elements using JavaScript
- Data manipulation in JavaScript,
- API call and JSON, developing
- SPA(Single Page application) using React
Career progression:
This can be considered the foundation to all web-based engineer and developer careers.Â
Core tools and technologies:
- VS Code
- Command-line (Windows Powershell/ MAC Terminal)
- Git and GitHub
In addition:
- Presentation skills
- Portfolio development
- Employability and interview skills
- LinkedIn visibility skills
- Communication skills
- Soft skills such as – teamwork, empathy, problem-solving, critical thinking
Progression Pathways:
On completion of the Bootcamps the staff members can progress onto Apprenticeships or other Higher-level training to develop skills further. If Employees progress onto an Apprenticeship, then the Bootcamps can be used as a recognition of prior learning which would reduce the cost and duration of an apprenticeship.Â
Example of RPLÂ
Someone who completes out Data Analyst Bootcamp can progress to a level 3 Data technician Apprenticeship. The apprenticeship normally is 24 months and the cost to a levy employer is £10500 ( excluding EPA costs ) however the Bootcamp can provide recognised credits of upto a maximum of 40% which will reduce the duration from 24 months to 14 months and the cost from £10500 to 6300 however the most important benefit to the employer could be that the individual would be able to undertake the role from 12 weeks onwards making large productivity gains for the employer.Â
FEATURES
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Skills Bootcamps are flexible courses of up to 15 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer.
70% funded - make only 30% contribution
4 to 15 weeks programmes
Live online classes and video recordings
Z K, Software Tester Trainee
Carla, Coding Trainee
Francesca, Data Analysis Trainee
Sandra, Coding Trainee
William, Data Analysis Trainee
George, Software Tester Trainee
Justin, Coding Trainee
See our successful Skills Bootcamp stories here.
DON'T BE A COMPANY THAT DOESN'T LEARN.
Or you’ll risk more than you think. Providing your employees with learning and development is no longer important; it is vital for your organisation’s survival. You’re probably aware of that already and you included staff training on your ‘to-do’ list, but right now you have other priorities to take care of.Â
And you’re thinking, ‘We’ll do it in the future’, which means:
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you're one of 27% organisations that don't train employees -
73% of organizations provide industry-specific training and development at the moment - you're not increasing your revenue - companies that invest in employee training gain 21% more profit
- you're losing more money - inadequate training and disengagement can lead to annual losses of more than $500 billion
- you're not improving staff retention - 94% of employees agree to stay longer at a company if it invests in their training
- you're missing out on best employees - 84% of employees at top-performing companies receive all the professional training they need
- you're ignoring your team's needs - 68% of employees want to learn or train in the workplace
DOES MY TEAM NEED TRAINING?
Are my employees adaptable?
Do they have necessary analytical skills?
Do they know the future technologies?
Are they action orientated?
Can they communicate effectively?
Are they results orientated?
Are they innovative?
Do they have a global perspective?
Are they confident?
HOW WE CAN HELP TO RE-INVENT YOUR TALENT
WITH OUR SKILLS BOOTCAMPS
UPSKILL OR RESKILL
your staff with the relevant skills they need for your business in areas such as: Digital Transformation, Data Analysis, Cloud Computing and DevOps.
GO BESPOKE
Be involved in designing the bootcamps in the areas we work in so that we can ensure your staff can develop the relevant skills as we apply our employee training plan and present you with best staff training solutions.
PAY ONLY £10 A DAY
70% of the Skills Bootcamp is funded by the UK Government which means you'll have to cover only 30% which is equal to as much as £10 per day per employee.
WE WILL TRAIN YOUR TEAM
AS THOUGH IT WAS OUR OWN.
As a company that takes care of our employees, we wouldn’t like them to lose their time on boring training that will not bring the results and bring more dissatisfaction that engagement.Â
And we know neither would you. That’s why we designed our bootcamps to be:
ENGAGING so your employees can get the real learning experience rather than feel like they’re watching an online video
FLEXIBLE so they can squeeze their training in their working hours and rewatch it in their free time if they couldn’t attend the session
RELEVANT with industry experts leading the sessions that will provide them with valuable information, because there’s nothing worse than a training that feels like loss of time
ADJUSTABLEÂ to meet your team’s preferences, because it’s all about learning methods that’s work for them!Â
AFFORDABLE with Government funding covering 70% of the payment
SUPPORTIVE to make sure no employee is ever left behind. During our previous Skills Bootcamp, we spent 10 additional hours on helping learners with learning difficulties, we’ve designed additional Student & Alumni Handbooks, and brought extra TAs to the sessions
Key features
- Creating work-ready employees
- Employers can work with us to take on the talent we develop through the Bootcamps via a work placement
It's no longer just about training
In the world where training teams is vital, training providers must do more than simply deliver curriculum.Â
Here at Purple Beard Training we believe that:
- Learning means empowerment and confidence and because everyone is able to learn - everyone can be confident in what they're doing
- Learning doesn't start on the first day of training and finish at the last one - that's why we're here to support our learners thorough the entire journey, including before and after our bootcamps
- Learning and training employees is not just about tech skills.
- Everyone learns differently and that this difference has to be implemented in teaching - we deliver training via multimodal learning offering our students flexible sessions
- You have to learn from failure as much as from success. Failing can be hard to accept, but gives better lessons.
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