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Good for you! Hitting upon this feature suggests you\’re contemplating your career, and if it\’s re-training you\’re considering you\’ve even now progressed more than the majority of people will. It\’s a frightening thought that surprisingly few of us are satisfied and happy at work – but the majority will just put up with it. We implore you to liberate yourself and move forward – you have the rest of your life to enjoy it.
We suggest that you discuss your ideas first – find someone who knows the industry; someone who\’ll give you career advice based on what works best for you, and analyse the training programs you may be suited to:
* Would you like to work with others? If so, do you want a team or are you hoping to meet new people? Or are you better working in isolation?
* Have you given much thought to which sector you could be employed in? (Post credit crunch, it\’s more important than ever to choose carefully.)
* Once you\’ve qualified, would you like your new abilities to serve you till you retire?
* Do you think being qualified will give you the opportunity to discover new employment possibilities, and remain in employment until you choose to stop?
We would advise that your number one choice is the IT sector – everyone knows that it\’s getting bigger. IT isn\’t all techie people staring at computers the whole time – naturally there are those roles, but the majority of roles are carried out by people like you and me who get on very well.
Many students come unstuck over a single training area very rarely considered: The method used to \’segment\’ the courseware before being packaged off through the post.
Delivery by courier of each element stage by stage, as you complete each module is the typical way that your program will arrive. This sounds logical, but you might like to consider this:
Many students find that the company\’s usual training route isn\’t ideal for them. They might find a different order of study is more expedient. And what if you don\’t get to the end inside of the expected timescales?
To provide the maximum security and flexibility, it\’s normal for most trainees to make sure that every element of their training is couriered out in one package, all at the beginning. It\’s then up to you in what order and how fast or slow you\’d like to work.
Looking at the myriad of choice out there, is it any wonder that the majority of newcomers to the industry have no idea which career they will follow.
Working through a list of odd-sounding and meaningless job titles is no use whatsoever. The vast majority of us don\’t even know what the neighbours do for a living – so we have no hope of understanding the intricacies of a particular IT career.
Consideration of the following areas is important when you need to expose the right answers:
* What hobbies you have and enjoy – often these define what areas will satisfy you.
* Are you looking to achieve a key aim – for example, working from home sometime soon?
* Does salary have a higher place on your priority-scale than some other areas.
* Getting to grips with what the normal job areas and markets are – and what differentiates them.
* Having a serious look at the level of commitment, time and effort you\’ll make available.
In actuality, you\’ll find the only real way to research these issues will be via a meeting with an advisor that has experience of IT (and chiefly it\’s commercial needs.)
A typical blunder that many potential students make is to look for the actual course to take, and take their eye off where they want to get to. Training academies are stacked to the hilt with unaware students who chose a course based on what sounded good – rather than what would get them their end-goal of a job they enjoyed.
It\’s an awful thing, but thousands of new students start out on programs that sound fabulous in the sales literature, but which delivers a career that is of no interest at all. Just ask several university graduates and you\’ll see where we\’re coming from.
Set targets for what you want to earn and how ambitious you are. This can often control what particular certifications will be required and what you can expect to give industry in return.
Seek guidance and advice from an experienced industry professional, even if you have to pay a small fee – it\’s usually much cheaper and safer to discover early on whether your choices are appropriate, instead of finding out after two full years that the job you\’ve chosen is not for you and now need to go back to square one.
Some training providers offer a Job Placement Assistance service, to help you into your first commercial role. But don\’t place too much emphasis on it – it\’s quite easy for eager sales people to make too much of it. Ultimately, the still growing need for IT personnel in the UK is what will enable you to get a job.
Nevertheless, don\’t procrastinate and wait until you\’ve qualified before polishing up your CV. As soon as your training commences, mark down what you\’re doing and tell people about it!
It can happen that you haven\’t even qualified when you\’ll secure your initial junior support role; however this isn\’t going to happen if interviewers don\’t get sight of your CV.
If it\’s important to you to find work near your home, then you\’ll often find that a specialist independent regional recruitment consultant or service can generally serve you better than a national service, due to the fact that they\’re far more likely to be familiar with the jobs that are going locally.
Please be sure that you don\’t spend hundreds of hours on your training and studies, then call a halt and expect somebody else to sort out your employment. Stand up for yourself and start looking for yourself. Put the same focus into securing the right position as you did to gain the skills.
(C) 2009 Scott Edwards. Navigate to How To Choose A Career or Click HERE.
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