Post ITIL Certification - Different Types of Jobs Available

Jan 14
09:15

2011

Kelsey Libby

Kelsey Libby

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Once you get certified in ITIL, there are a number of job options to choose from. Here is a look at some you'll want to consider.

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There are four types of jobs that are open for anyone who has earned a certification for the second ITIL level of training. The first level is essentially an introductory phase meant to familiarize the student with the different components that make up an IT management system,Post ITIL Certification - Different Types of Jobs Available Articles as well as their definitions and proper functions.

Practitioner Training

For his next course, the student may choose from among three practitioner trainings. Most course plans will allow the student to take up only one practitioner course for each training session that he has. So that anyone who wishes to avail of all three will need to spend three times the time it would have taken him to complete just one.

Sometimes, these trainings are available online. There are advantages and disadvantages in that type of classroom ambiance. First of all, the advantage is that expenses incurred will be less. The student may need to pay a small fee for the learning materials that he can download. There will be no need to commute to the training center because classes can be attended from within the home.

On the other hand, online training is limited by the speed of the internet connection. And even when the internet connection is fast, virtual classes cannot be conducted with the same speed as live classroom sessions. Additionally, there is not much supervision with online courses. The student does what he wants at home, even when classes are going on. The learning rate with online course is lower than with offline ones.

Another disadvantage of online ITIL training sessions is that the coverage of the subject matter is subject to certain limitations. The interactive sessions that may be required for the higher level of ITIL are difficult to conduct on the web. Those live sessions are invaluable for giving the practitioner skill in conducting person-to-person communication.

The three ways in which a practitioner can serve the purposes of the information system have to deal with (1) the creation of software (2) adaptation of the software to real-life settings and (3) introducing changes into the management system

The training that prepares one to manage the creation of software or the business system is called release management. Necessarily, automating the processing, the transfer, the saving and the extraction of data is an essential part of any IT management system. The release manager is taught the roundabout procedures involved in creating the management system. He is taught how to coordinate the members of his team during the development phase, through the testing phase, and possibly cycling back to the development phase for as long as the program does not meet the avowed objectives of the system.

When the product is finally ready for implementation, the release manager takes care of producing the documentation that will accompany the software. Once the system is in place and functional, the duties of the release manager revolve around providing support for the software.

The next practitioner training will teach the student how to detect defects in the system by instigating a baseline efficiency value. If in any aspect of its output, the system fails to live up to that baseline value, then a defect exists or an error has occurred in the system. It is the duty of the configuration manager to have control structures programmed into the system such that the chances of inappropriate values or volumes of input will not be allowed by these controls, using the configuration parameters as their guide.

The third practitioner training is that for change management. It is to this practitioner or manager that all changes that need to be made to the system are submitted for approval. Once approved, it is the task of the change manager to devise the most inconspicuous means of implementing the changes, with the minimum of disturbance for the running system.