If it weren’t for a regular deluge of trained PC and network support staff, commerce in the United Kingdom (as elsewhere) would inevitably run into problems. There is a huge demand for men and women with technical ability to support both the users themselves and their networks. Our hunger for such skilled and qualified individuals is ever increasing, as commercial enterprise becomes significantly more dependent upon technology.
Working on the leading edge of new technology gives you the best job satisfaction ever. You’re involved with impacting progress around the world.
There are people who believe that the technological advancement we have experienced is lowering its pace. This couldn’t be more wrong. We have yet to experience incredible advances, and the internet significantly is going to dominate how we conduct our lives.
The money in IT isn’t to be sniffed at also – the typical remuneration throughout Britain for an average IT professional is considerably more than the national average. Chances are that you’ll earn a whole lot more than you’d expect to earn doing other work.
It would appear there’s no easing up for IT industry increases in Great Britain as a whole. The sector is continuing to expand hugely, and we don’t have anywhere near enough qualified skilled IT professionals to fill current job vacancies, so it’s not likely that it will even slow down for the significant future.
Quite often, students have issues with one area of their training usually not even thought about: The method used to ’segment’ the courseware before being sent out to you.
By and large, you’ll enrol on a course that takes between and 1 and 3 years and get posted one section at a time – from one exam to the next. While this may sound logical on one level, consider this:
What if there are reasons why you can’t finish every single section? Maybe the prescribed order won’t suit you? Through no fault of your own, you may not meet the required timescales and consequently not get all your materials.
To be honest, the perfect answer is to have a copy of their prescribed order of study, but to receive all the materials up-front. Everything is then in your possession should you not complete it at their required pace.
It only makes sense to consider training programmes that’ll lead to commercially acknowledged exams. There’s an endless list of trainers promoting minor ‘in-house’ certificates which will prove unusable in today’s commercial market.
Only fully recognised qualifications from the top companies like Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco and Adobe will mean anything to employers.
At the top of your shopping list for a training program should be 24×7 round-the-clock support through professional mentors and instructors. So many companies we come across will only offer a basic 9am till 6pm support period (maybe later on certain days) with very little availability over the weekend.
You’ll be waiting ages for an answer with email based support, and telephone support is usually to a call-centre that will just take down the issue and email it over to their technical team – who will then call back sometime over the next 24hrs, at a time suitable for them. This is all next to useless if you’re lost and confused and only have a specific time you can study.
As long as you look hard, you will find the top providers that give students online support all the time – including evenings, nights and weekends.
Don’t ever make the mistake of taking second best when it comes to your support. The vast majority of students who fall by the wayside, would have had a different experience if they’d got the right support package in the first place.
Copyright 2009 Scott Edwards. Go to Click Here or www.comptia-a-training.co.uk.
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