Re: Help Convincing Employer to Pay for SANS Training

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Hey Pierre,

What also might work is to propose a contract where it is stipulated 
that you will refund a part of the cost should you leave the company 
within a given time frame (e.g. 100% if you leave within a year, 50% for 
2 years etc.), this way management is sure the investment (training 
should always be sold to management as investment) will pay off or be 
paid back ...

greets

On 9/04/2013 5:16, Michael Allen wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
> Not sure of your situation. However what worked for me was 
> volunteering to cover a part of the cost. The training budget got cut. 
> I really wanted to do the course and so I made them an offer, It 
> worked for me.
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Pierre Wills <pierre.wills () gmail com 
> <mailto:pierre.wills () gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     I have already talked to my direct management and they are all for
>     sending me to SANS Fire 2013 in Washington, DC.The only issue now
>     is that I have to convince upper management that it is worth it to
>     pay for me to go to the training.The class I am taking is SEC506
>     Securing Unix/Linux and considering our environment is 97% Linux
>     it should be a no brainer.But I was wondering if anyone could help
>     provided me with some bullet points I can use in my write up to
>     help convince upper management to pay for the course.The company I
>     work for is a contacting company mostly to the Federal Government
>     with some Private Industry so anything related to the Federal
>     Government would be great.
>     Thanks
>
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