Good for you! As you’re reading this article it’s likely you’re thinking about retraining for a new career - so already you’ve made a start. Very few of us are satisfied with our careers, but no action is ever taken. You could be a member of the few who make a difference in their lives.
We’d strongly advise that in advance of taking any study program, you discuss your plans with a person who has knowledge of the industry and can point you in the right direction. They can look at aspects of your personality and assist in finding the right role for you:
* Do you like to work collaborating with people? Would you prefer to work with a small team or with many new people? Possibly operating on your own with your own methodology would be more your thing?
* What ideas do you have regarding the industry you’re looking to get into?
* Should this be a one off time that re-training is necessary?
* Are you concerned about the possibility of getting another job, and being in demand in the employment market until you plan to retire?
We request you to have a good look at Information Technology - there are increasingly more jobs than workers to do them, plus it’s one of the few choices of career where the industry is still growing. In contrast to the beliefs of some, IT is not full of nerdy individuals gazing at their computer screens the whole day (if you like the sound of that though, they do exist.) The vast majority of roles are filled by people like you and me who enjoy a very nice lifestyle due to better than average wages.
Without a doubt: There’s pretty much no individual job security now; there’s only market or sector security - companies can just drop any single member of staff if it suits the business’ trade needs.
It’s possible though to discover market-level security, by digging for areas in high demand, mixed with a lack of qualified workers.
Looking at the computer business, the 2006 e-Skills analysis highlighted a more than 26 percent shortfall of skilled workers. To explain it in a different way, this highlights that the UK only has three qualified staff for each four job positions existing now.
Accomplishing the appropriate commercial computer certification is thus a quick route to succeed in a long-lasting as well as enjoyable livelihood.
We can’t imagine if a better time or market conditions could exist for getting trained into this hugely emerging and blossoming business.
An area that’s often missed by new students considering a training program is the issue of ‘training segmentation’. This is essentially how the program is broken down into parts to be delivered to you, which vastly changes the point you end up at.
Trainees may consider it sensible (with most training taking 1-3 years for a full commercial certification,) for a training company to release the training stage by stage, as you achieve each exam pass. Although:
What would their reaction be if you find it difficult to do each and every exam at the proposed pace? Sometimes their preference of study order doesn’t come as naturally as some other structure would for you.
To avoid any potential future issues, many trainees now want to have all their training materials (which they’ve now paid for) couriered out in one package, all at the beginning. That means it’s down to you how fast or slow and in what order you want to work.
An all too common mistake that many potential students make is to look for the actual course to take, and take their eye off the end result they want to achieve. Colleges are brimming over with direction-less students that chose an ‘interesting’ course - in place of something that could gain them an enjoyable career or job.
It’s possible, for instance, to get a great deal of enjoyment from a year of study but end up spending 10 or 20 years in something completely unrewarding, as a consequence of not performing some decent due-diligence at the beginning.
You need to keep your eye on what you want to achieve, and then build your training requirements around that - don’t do it back-to-front. Keep your eyes on your goals and begin studying for a job you’ll still be enjoying many years from now.
Seek out help from a professional advisor that ‘gets’ the commercial realities of the area you’re interested in, and will be able to provide ‘A typical day in the life of’ synopsis of what you’ll actually be doing during your working week. It’s good sense to understand whether or not this is right for you long before your course begins. What’s the point in kicking off your training and then find you’ve taken the wrong route.
Don’t listen to any salesperson that offers any particular course without a thorough investigation to better understand your current abilities and level of experience. Make sure they can draw from a wide-enough array of training so they’re actually equipped to give you a program that suits you..
Remember, if in the past you’ve acquired any accreditation or direct-experience, then you may be able to pick-up at a different starting-point to a trainee with no history to speak of.
Working through a basic PC skills module first can be the best way to start into your IT programme, but depends on your skill level.
(C) Jason Kendall. Visit LearningLolly.com for quality information. CCNA Training or www.adult-retraining.co.uk.
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