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All of us are short of time, and most often if we want to advance our future prospects, getting educated alongside a job is the only option open to us. Microsoft authorised training could offer a solution.

You might also hope to be given advice on the jobs you might go for once you've qualified, and which personalities those jobs might be right for. The majority of students feel happier if they can be advised on what the best route is for them.

When you've chosen the area you want to get into, a suitable training program needs to be selected that's a match for your needs. This can be personally tailored for you.

Always expect an authorised exam preparation system included in your course.

Students regularly can get thrown by practicing questions for their exams that aren't recognised by the authorised examining boards. Sometimes, the phraseology is unfamiliar and you need to be ready for this.

Why don't you verify your knowledge through tests and mock ups of exams to get you ready for the proper exam.

Many trainers provide piles of reference manuals and workbooks. It's not a very interesting way to learn and not ideal for remembering.

Research has always shown that becoming involved with our studies, to utilise all our senses, will more likely produce memories that are deeper and longer-lasting.

Find a course where you'll receive a selection of CD or DVD ROM's - you'll learn by watching video tutorials and demonstrations, and be able to fine-tune your skills in fully interactive practice sessions.

Make sure to obtain a training material demonstration from the training company. The materials should incorporate demo's from instructors, slideshows and lab's for you to practice your skills in.

Select physical media such as CD or DVD ROM's where possible. You can then avoid all the difficulties of internet connection failure and issues with signal quality.

A useful feature that several companies offer is a programme of Job Placement assistance. It's intention is to help you find your first job in the industry. The need for this feature can be bigged up out of proportion though - it's easy for eager sales people to overplay it. At the end of the day, the massive skills shortage in this country is what will make you attractive to employers.

You would ideally have advice and support about your CV and interviews though; and we'd recommend any student to bring their CV up to date the day they start training - don't wait till you've finished your exams.

It's possible that you won't have even got to the exam time when you land your first junior support job; however this won't be the case unless your CV is with employers.

The best services to help you land that job are normally independent and specialised local recruitment services. As they will get paid by the employer when they've placed you, they have more incentive to get on with it.

In a nutshell, as long as you put the same commitment into securing a job as into training, you're not likely to experience problems. Some people bizarrely invest a great deal of time on their learning program and then call a halt once they've got certified and appear to be under the impression that jobs will come to them.

Wouldn't it be great to know for sure that our jobs will remain safe and our work prospects are protected, but the growing reality for most sectors in the United Kingdom currently is that security may be a thing of the past.

Now, we only experience security through a rapidly rising market, pushed forward by work-skills shortages. These circumstances create the correct background for a secure market - a far better situation.

Investigating the computing market, the recent e-Skills study showed a more than 26 percent shortfall of skilled workers. This shows that for every 4 jobs that exist around computing, we've only got three properly trained pro's to perform that task.

Appropriately taught and commercially certified new professionals are thus at a resounding premium, and it seems it will continue to be so for a long time to come.

It would be hard to imagine if a better time or market settings will exist for gaining qualification for this swiftly emerging and blossoming business.