I am a Public Affairs Officer in the Army - So I have to do all of the Army basic training for an officer (Reserve), including the 11 week CAP (Common Army Program) at the Infantry School (it includes leading Section Attacks and stuff) and I had to do all of the Public Affairs training besides.
It was intense - but most of it was okay - just a lot of work.
Training on my current job was a joke. The worst trainer I’ve ever had to work with. It was very difficult to get out on the call floor with any feeling of preparedness.
Lessee:
First tech job? My training was how to log into a computer, and here’s the public drive with stuff on it.
Last tech job? 2 weeks, mostly on how to use the website to point out customers’ stupidity. Then one more week for how to troubleshoot networks.
This job? Locked in a room with a spreadsheet and SAP access. Had to fill in the spreadsheet’s open fields. Took me 3 hours to do it, but I knew it all pat.
I’ve held 4 different positions at my current company and each one was, for the past 10 years, a “Define your own job and learn as you go” type of job.
My previous job was working at a call center and the training we had was supposed to be 2 weeks, but it ended up being 4 weeks as right when we ended our training, they changed a lot of procedures around so they said they would train us again.
Live cable jointing on 11KV circuits. It’s not that long a course, few years or so and cable jointing is only a small part of the apprenticeship, still, it’s something that you tend to want to get right.
“So, uh, here’s your computer and your network password. The software you need is already on there. I think. Pretty sure, anyway. The printer’s in the front office and the bathroom’s around the corner.”
I’m an editor. I did a lot of self-OJT.
Hehe…I was brought in to fill a newly created position. The medical practice I work for had grown to the point where it was no longer efficient to have all seven locations answering their own phones and setting up their own appointments, so they decided to start a central call center. Thanks to my call center management experience, I was hired to start it (with existing employees) and run it. My “training” consisted of:
I was basically running full speed by the end of the first week, and had to learn a lot through asking dumb questions and making silly mistakes. Honestly, the biggest challenge was keeping a working relationship and a modicum of respect with my employees, since they all knew for a fact that they knew more about the job than I did.
Are you counting your MBA program and previous work experience as your “training”? Because I don’t think that counts for what the OP is looking for.
In my post-MBA experience with management consulting, “training” usually consists of a 1-4 week boondoggle that consists of
a) learning how to check your email and log into the network
b) boring lectures about different practice areas and career tracks (like anyone will stay longer than 2-5 years)
c) go to the bar and get drunk
d) hook up with slutty female analyst
There isn’t any training at my job. Ostensibly, if you have managed to get yourself a job in this field, you are expected to know how to do it already. Currently, there are only three of us who have had prior experience. The last thing the PTB would entertain is asking us to coach the new hires who have no experience. There should be mandatory workshops on how to operate the equipment, explaining the ins and outs of digital editing, etc., but there are none. People come here with no idea how to do even the basics, and no one teaches them anything. So the end product suffers, and everybody tuned in hears us sound like shit, including the management. Do they do anything about it? Of course not.
I didn’t spend nearly as much time with step d) as perhaps I should’ve… 
Nah - that was new-hire orientation. But in the strat practice, we also had special courses called “structured problem solving” and “analytical communications” and “research planning and execution” and a few things like that. It was all about taking a client’s problem (e.g., “sales are down”) and breaking that down into component parts (e.g., it is a sales issue or something else - with a multi-billion dollar companies with thousands of sales people, it can be brutally hard to tell), and come up with a solution. And a huge part of your solution is how you have engaged key players, so by the time it is presented, they are committed to it as *their *solution, not as something the consultant forced upon them. There’s a whole lot of challenge getting that to work!
We were expected to pass through different stages of development - practically like martial arts belts or something. You have to learn to frame a problem so they don’t overlap (Mutually Exclusive) and cover the entire spectrum of possible issues (Collectively Exhaustive). Once a problem has been defined in MECE way, you need to develop a Research Plan that enables you to quickly focus on most-likely problem areas and discard red herrings…
I had 4 years of ROTC, the rolled right into flight training at Pensacola, to include medical, physical fitness, swim, physio, and academic quals, then actual aircraft familiarization flights, each one of which was a grueling barrage of questions, grading, briefs, and in-flight headwork evaluations. That can last anywhere from 6 months to a year.
Then, if you can make it through all of that, you move on to more navigation-specific training for another 6 months, and from there I moved on to electronic warfare school, learning all about emitters, scan types, pulse repitition frequencies, etc.
Then I had to go through Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion school, where I lost a lot of weight in very short period of time and walked away with bruises all over my body. Then I arrived at my first squadron, where I endured months and months of training in order to qualify first as a Mission Navigator, then as a Mission Evaluator, and then finally as a Senior Evaluator/Mission Commander, which involved a huge written test and a hellish 6-hour oral board. And that was just my first four years in the Navy.