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Computer and network support staff are more and more sought after in Great Britain, as organisations are becoming more reliant on their technical advice and fixing and repairing abilities. As we’re all becoming growingly reliant on our PC’s, we additionally inevitably become more reliant on the well trained network engineers, who keep the systems going.

Considering how a program is ‘delivered’ to you is usually ignored by most students. How many stages do they break the program into? What is the specific order and at what speed is it delivered?

Often, you will purchase a course that takes between and 1 and 3 years and receive one element at a time until graduation. It seems to make sense on one level, but consider these issues:

What if you find the order offered by the provider doesn’t suit. You may find it a stretch to finalise all the sections at the speed required?

In an ideal situation, you want ALL the study materials up-front – enabling you to have them all to come back to in the future – as and when you want. This allows a variation in the order that you complete each objective if you find another route more intuitive.

You have to be sure that all your qualifications are what employers want – you’re wasting your time with courses that lead to in-house certificates.

From the viewpoint of an employer, only top businesses like Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA or Adobe (to give some examples) will get you short-listed. Anything less just doesn’t cut the mustard.

Far too many companies only look at the plaque to hang on your wall, and completely miss the reasons for getting there – which is a commercial career or job. You should always begin with the final destination in mind – don’t make the journey more important than where you want to get to.

Don’t let yourself become one of the unfortunate masses that choose a course that seems ‘fun’ or ‘interesting’ – only to end up with a qualification for an unrewarding career path.

You need to keep your eye on where you want to get to, and then build your training requirements around that – avoid getting them back-to-front. Stay focused on the end-goal and ensure that you’re training for an end-result that’ll reward you for many long and fruitful years.

Seek advice from an experienced advisor, even if there’s a fee involved – it’s usually much cheaper and safer to investigate at the start whether you’ve chosen correctly, rather than realise after 2 years that the job you’ve chosen is not for you and have to start from the beginning again.

We can all agree: There really is no such thing as individual job security anywhere now; there’s only industry or business security – companies can just let anyone go if it fits their trade requirements.

Whereas a sector experiencing fast growth, where staff are in constant demand (due to a growing shortfall of properly qualified staff), provides a market for proper job security.

Using the Information Technology (IT) sector for example, a key e-Skills survey brought to light a skills shortage throughout Great Britain in excess of 26 percent. Quite simply, we’re only able to fill 3 out of each four job positions in IT.

This single fact in itself underpins why the country urgently requires a lot more people to enter the IT sector.

Without a doubt, now really is a critical time to consider retraining into the computer industry.

(C) 2009 – S. Edwards. Pop over to Alternative Careers or New Career Opportunities.

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