There are a range of options in existence for trainees wanting to get into the IT industry. To help you decide on one you'll be happy with, look for a...
There are a range of options in existence for trainees wanting to get into the IT industry. To help you decide on one you'll be happy with, look for a company that will help you to work out the right job for your characteristics,
or at least explain what the job entails, to confirm you're on the right track. You can select Microsoft User Skills packages, or more advanced IT professional certifications. Plain speaking courses will set you on the right track to achieve your goals.
State-of-the-art training techniques now give students the chance to be educated on an innovative style of course, that costs significantly less than more outdated courses. The low overhead structure of the new courses allows everybody access to them.
Your training program should always include the very latest Microsoft (or Cisco, CompTIA etc.) authorised simulation materials and exam preparation packages. Often students can be thrown off course by practising exam questions that aren't recognised by authorised sources. It's not uncommon that the phraseology is startlingly different and it's important to prepare yourself for this. Ensure that you verify your depth of understanding by doing quizzes and simulated exams to get you ready for the proper exam.
Including examinations with the course fee and offering an 'Exam Guarantee' is popular with a good many training companies. But look at the facts:
Clearly it's not free - you're still paying for it - it's just been included in your package price. We all want to pass first time. Taking your exams progressively one by one and paying as you go puts you in a much stronger position to qualify at the first attempt - you put the effort in and are conscious of what you've spent.
Shouldn't you be looking to not pay up-front, but at the appropriate time, not to pay the fees marked up by a college, and to do it locally - instead of miles away at the college's beck and call? Paying upfront for examination fees (and interest charges if you're borrowing money) is bad financial management. Resist being talked into filling the training company's account with extra money of yours just to give them more interest! A lot bank on the fact that you won't get to do them all - so they don't need to pay for them. Don't forget, with 'Exam Guarantees' from most places - they control when and how often you are allowed to have another go. You will have to demonstrate an excellent pass-rate before they'll approve a re-take.
Due to typical VUE and Prometric examinations costing in the region of 112 pounds in this country, it's common sense to fund them one by one. There's no sense in throwing away maybe a thousand pounds extra at the start of your studies. Consistent and systematic learning, coupled with quality exam simulation software is what will really see you through.
An all too common mistake that students everywhere can make is to choose a career based on a course, rather than starting with the desired end-result. Training academies have thousands of students that chose a program because it looked interesting - in place of something that could gain them an enjoyable career or job. Avoid becoming part of that group who choose a training program that seems 'fun' or 'interesting' - and end up with a certification for something they'll never enjoy.
Be honest with yourself about what you want to earn and the level of your ambition. This can often control which precise accreditations you'll need to attain and what you can expect to give industry in return. Our recommendation would be to seek advice from a professional advisor before settling on a particular learning course, so there's little doubt that the specific package will give the skills for the job being sought.
Several companies offer a Job Placement Assistance facility, to assist your search for your first position. In reality it isn't so complicated as you might think to land a job - once you're trained and certified; the shortage of IT personnel in Britain looks after that.
However, what is relevant is to have CV and Interview advice and support though; additionally, we would recommend all students to bring their CV up to date right at the beginning of their training - don't put it off until you've qualified. It's possible that you won't have even got to the exam time when you land your first junior support role; however this won't be the case if interviewers don't get sight of your CV. Generally, you'll receive better results from a specialised and independent local recruitment service than you will through a training provider's employment division, because they'll know local industry and the area better.
To bottom line it, as long as you focus the same level of energy into finding a job as into studying, you're not going to hit many challenges. Some men and women strangely spend hundreds of hours on their learning program and then call a halt once qualified and would appear to think that businesses will just discover them.
How long has it been since you considered how safe your job is? Normally, this issue only becomes a talking point when we get some bad news. Unfortunately, the reality is that job security simply doesn't exist anymore, for the vast majority of people. We can however locate security at market-level, by searching for areas that have high demand, coupled with a lack of qualified workers.
A rather worrying national e-Skills analysis demonstrated that 26 percent of IT jobs cannot be filled as an upshot of an appallingly low number of trained staff. To explain it in a different way, this shows that Great Britain can only find three qualified staff for each 4 job positions existing at the moment. Highly trained and commercially grounded new workers are accordingly at a total premium, and it's estimated to remain so for much longer. Because the IT sector is expanding at such a speed, is there any other area of industry worth investigating for a new future.
