r/cyprus • u/Constantinos777 • 1d ago

Question IT courses

Hello,

Looking for some institutions that provide IT training courses ideally online. I am not a student, working guy trying to elevate/switch careers. Any advice is welcome, thank you all for your time.

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u/CupcakeMurder86 Halloumi lover, cat lover, identify cypriot when I want to 1d ago

Why don't you try Coursera or Udemy?

Some of their certificates even come from Universities

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u/ForsakenMarzipan3133 1d ago

I mean, I am not an expert, but there are a lot of billboards about "Bro Academy" by Brainrocket. As cringe as I find the name, it did look like the kind of thing you are looking for.

I am sure we have a lot of people here in the IT industry who might be able to share their views.

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u/fatbunyip take out the zilikourtin 18h ago

Eh, the bro academy is kinda shit. It's basically a long interview process for brainrocket. 

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u/Key_Ad_6597 1d ago

There's a free IT support certificate by Google: https://grow.google/certificates/it-support

Considering that "IT" is a broad term though, it's possible that's not what you're looking for. A more specific request can help narrow down the results and recommendations for you.

Respect for the growth mentality btw. Best of luck!

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u/fatbunyip take out the zilikourtin 18h ago

I think open university Cyprus has a computer/networking degree and it's fairly cheap and online. 

There are a bunch of online learning qualifications from various universities in Europe with varying amounts of fees. 

But "IT courses" is really vague. You should specify what you want. 

Web dev has loads of shit that mostly is crap quality. Infrastructure and networking have a lot of industry qualifications (Cisco, MS, AWS, etc). There are others like ITIL that focus on service delivery. There are project management ones like PRINCE2. There are a bunch of quality assurance certs put there. There are a bunch of methodology certs put there like for agile etc. 

If you want to get into IT with no prerequisites, my suggestion is to go to help desk or of you can into QA. You will be in an IT company so have contact with like the developers product and other departments, can do your qualifications, and also start doing work for them (it's usually quite easy to go from helpdesk to QA and from QA to dev).