Well Done! As you’re looking at this it’s likely you’re thinking about retraining for a new career – that means you’ve already taken one more step than the majority. Less of us than you’d think are content with our jobs, but most just moan and do nothing about it. You could be a member of the few who decide to make the change.
We’d recommend that before you start any individual training program, you run through some things with a mentor who knows the industry and can give you advice. They can assess 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 a lot of new people? Perhaps working alone in a task-based situation would be more your thing?
* What do you need from the market sector you work in? (Things do change – look at the building trade, or banks for example.)
* Is it important that this should be the last time you’ll need to re-qualify?
* Are you happy that retraining in your chosen sector will offer you employment opportunities, and offer the chance to allow you to work until retirement?
Look at the IT sector, that’s our recommendation – it’s one of the few sectors of industry still growing in this country and overseas. In addition, salaries and benefits exceed most other industries.
One useful service that several companies offer is a Job Placement Assistance program. The service is put in place to steer you into your first IT role. The fact of the matter is it’s not as difficult as you may be led to believe to secure a job – as long as you’ve got the necessary skills and qualifications; the shortage of IT personnel in Britain looks after that.
However, what is relevant is to have help and assistance with preparing a CV and getting interviews though; and we’d encourage all students to get their CV updated as soon as training commences – don’t delay until you’ve graduated or passed any exams.
Getting onto the ‘maybe’ pile of CV’s is better than being rejected. A surprising amount of junior support jobs are got by people who are still at an early stage in their studies.
Actually, a specialist locally based employment service (who will get paid commission to place you) will perform better than any division of a training company. In addition, they will no doubt know the local area and commercial needs.
A constant frustration of various course providers is how hard people are prepared to study to get qualified, but how ill-prepared they are to market themselves for the job they have studied for. Have confidence – the IT industry needs YOU.
IT has become one of the most electrifying and revolutionary industries you could be involved with. To be working on the cutting-edge of technology puts you at the fore-front of developments that will impact the whole world for generations to come.
We’re only just beginning to comprehend how this will truly impact our way of life. The way we interact with the world will be inordinately affected by computers and the web.
A standard IT employee in Great Britain has been shown to get a lot more than equivalent professionals in another industry. Standard IT remuneration packages are hard to beat nationally.
Excitingly, there is no end in sight for IT sector growth throughout this country. The sector is continuing to expand quickly, and as we have a significant shortage of skilled professionals, it’s not showing any signs that there’ll be any kind of easing off for the significant future.
Students looking to build an IT career often don’t know what path is best, or even which market to get certified in.
As with no commercial background in the IT industry, how could any of us know what anyone doing a particular job actually does?
Usually, the way to come at this quandary correctly comes from an in-depth chat, covering several different topics:
* The type of personality you have as well as your interests – the sort of work-centred jobs you enjoy or dislike.
* What sort of time-frame do you want for your training?
* Where do you stand on job satisfaction vs salary?
* Often, trainees don’t consider the work needed to gain all the necessary accreditation.
* You have to understand what differentiates each individual training area.
The best way to avoid the barrage of jargon, and reveal the best path to success, have an informal chat with an experienced professional; a person who will cover the commercial realities and truth as well as each certification.
Be careful that the exams that you’re considering will be recognised by employers and are the most recent versions. Training companies own certificates are generally useless.
From an employer’s perspective, only the major heavyweights such as Microsoft, CompTIA, Adobe or Cisco (for instance) will make the right impression. Anything less won’t make the grade.
Copyright 2009 Scott Edwards. Hop over to MCSE Courses or www.comptiacertification.co.uk.
Memorable Events From January 2000
I was looking through a history book and it was going on about memorable events of ten years ago, but I had forgotten most of them. I have picked out some of the events of exactly ten years ago this month – January, in a word. So here are a few news items that you may or in all probability will not remember from January 2000.
1 – on his first day as acting president, Vladimir Putin left to visit Russian troops in Chechnya.
4 – President Clinton nominates Alan Greenspan to a fourth four year term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
5 – President Clinton rules that Elian Gonzalez, a six year old Cuban boy who survived the capsizing of a refugee boat, should be returned to his father in Cuba.
6 – much of Miami is shut down by hundreds of Cuban-Americans in protest against the Gonzalez decision. – the S.E.C reports that most partners of Price, Waterhouse, Coopers, the world’s largest accounting company, violated rules requiring that they may not hold shares in firms that they audit. Five partners were fired.
7 – Vice Pres. Al Gore back-tracks on his promise to ensure that all new appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff were sympathetic to permitting gays to serve openly in the military.
8 – AOL announces a merger with Time Warner for $165 billion: the world’s biggest ever.
11 – the British government decides that General Pinochet is medically unfit to stand trial for suspected crimes against humanity in Chile during his presidency.
13 – executives at the nation’s leading drugs companies say they want to work with Clinton to institute Medicare coverage for prescription drugs this year.
15 – Arkan, the notorious Serbian paramilitary leader was shot dead in a hotel lobby in Belgrade.
18 – Helmut Kohl resigns as honorary Christian Democratic Party chairman over allegations of corruption from within the party.
24 – the Supreme Court rules that laws limiting political donations to $1,000 in Missouri are constitutional.
25 – the Congressional Budget Office reports that the flood of tax revenues ensuing from the exceptionally strong economy will last for ten years.
26 – ‘The New York Times’ reports that U.S investigators have discovered links between a group of Algerians charged with plotting a terrorist strike in the U.S. and Osama Bin Laden, the exiled Saudi accused of bombing two American embassies.
31 – Republican Gov. George Ryan of Illinois halts all executions in the state citing a disgraceful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row. – top officials n the C.I.A. are accused of blocking an internal investigation into indications that the agency’s past director, John M. Deutsch, mishandled secret information.
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