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?

Trainees may consider it sensible (with training often lasting 2 or 3 years to achieve full certification,) for a training company to release the courseware in stages, as you achieve each exam pass. However:

What if for some reason you don’t get to the end of every exam? Maybe the prescribed order won’t suit you? Through no fault of your own, you may not meet the required timescales and therefore not end up with all the modules.

Truth be told, the perfect answer is to get an idea of what they recommend as an ideal study order, but to receive all the materials up-front. Meaning you’ve got it all in case you don’t finish as fast as they’d like.

Any program that you’re going to undertake must provide a widely recognised exam as an end-result – definitely not some ‘in-house’ plaque for your wall.

If the accreditation doesn’t feature a major player like Microsoft, CompTIA, Adobe or Cisco, then you may discover it could have been a waste of time and effort – as no-one will have heard of it.

Remember: a training program or the accreditation is not the ultimate goal; the particular job that you want to end up in is. Many trainers unfortunately place too much importance on just the training course.

You may train for one year and then end up doing a job for a lifetime. Don’t make the mistake of taking what may be an ‘interesting’ training program only to waste your life away with a job you don’t like!

Set targets for how much you want to earn and the level of your ambition. This can often control which qualifications you’ll need to attain and what’ll be expected of you in your new role.

Look for help from an experienced industry professional that ‘gets’ the commercial realities of the area you’re interested in, and who can offer ‘A typical day in the life of’ outline of what you’ll actually be doing with each working day. It just makes sense to discover if this is the right course of action for you well before your course begins. There’s really no reason in starting to train and then find you’ve gone the wrong way entirely.

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.

Looking at the computing industry, the most recent e-Skills investigation demonstrated a twenty six percent shortfall of skilled workers. It follows then that for each 4 job positions that exist around the computer industry, employers are only able to find enough qualified individuals for three of the four.

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) Scott Edwards 2009. Check out New Career Opportunities or CLICK HERE.

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