Networking Training Courses UK Insights
These days, many workplaces couldn't function properly if it weren't for support workers fixing networks and computers, while advising users on a day to day basis. Because of the multifaceted levels of technology, growing numbers of trained staff are required to specialise in the various different areas we rely on.
Proper support is incredibly important - look for a package offering 24x7 direct access to instructors, as anything else will annoy you and definitely hold up your pace and restrict your intake.
You'll be waiting ages for an answer with email based support, and phone support is often to a call-centre which will just take down the issue and email it over to their technical team - who'll call back sometime over the next 1-3 days, when it suits them. This is not a lot of use if you're stuck with a particular problem and have a one hour time-slot in which to study.
The most successful trainers utilise several support facilities around the globe in several time-zones. They use an online interactive interface to join them all seamlessly, any time of the day or night, help is just seconds away, without any contact issues or hassle.
If you accept anything less than support round-the-clock, you'll end up kicking yourself. It may be that you don't use it late at night, but you're bound to use weekends, late evenings or early mornings.
It's important to understand: the training program or a certification is not what you're looking for; the particular job you're training for is. Far too many training organisations put too much weight in the piece of paper.
Avoid becoming part of the group who choose a training program that sounds really 'interesting' and 'fun' - and end up with a certification for a career they'll never really get any satisfaction from.
It's well worth a long chat to see what industry will expect from you. Which precise exams they'll want you to gain and in what way you can gain some industry experience. It's also worth spending time thinking about how far you think you'll want to progress your career as often it can force you to choose a particular set of exams.
Take advice from a professional advisor, even if you have to pay - as it's a lot cheaper and safer to find out at the start whether you've chosen correctly, rather than find out after several years of study that you aren't going to enjoy the job you've chosen and have to start from the beginning again.
How can job security truly exist anymore? Here in the UK, where industry can change its mind whenever it suits, there doesn't seem much chance.
In actuality, security now only emerges in a fast rising market, driven by a lack of trained workers. It's this shortage that creates the right conditions for a secure marketplace - definitely a more pleasing situation.
The IT skills-gap in the United Kingdom is standing at approximately twenty six percent, according to the most recent e-Skills survey. That means for each four job positions existing across computing, we have only 3 certified professionals to fulfil that role.
This single reality on its own underpins why the United Kingdom urgently requires considerably more people to get into the industry.
Because the IT sector is evolving at such a rate, there really isn't any other sector worth investigating as a retraining vehicle.
Commercial certification is now, very visibly, taking over from the more academic tracks into IT - why then has this come about?
Accreditation-based training (as it's known in the industry) is far more effective and specialised. The IT sector has realised that specialisation is what's needed to meet the requirements of an acceleratingly technical commercial environment. Microsoft, CompTIA, CISCO and Adobe are the big boys in this field.
Academic courses, for example, become confusing because of a great deal of loosely associated study - with much too broad a syllabus. Students are then held back from understanding the specific essentials in enough depth.
Just as the old advertisement said: 'It does what it says on the tin'. Employers simply need to know where they have gaps, and then match up the appropriate exam numbers as a requirement. They'll know then that all applicants can do what they need.
Proper support is incredibly important - look for a package offering 24x7 direct access to instructors, as anything else will annoy you and definitely hold up your pace and restrict your intake.
You'll be waiting ages for an answer with email based support, and phone support is often to a call-centre which will just take down the issue and email it over to their technical team - who'll call back sometime over the next 1-3 days, when it suits them. This is not a lot of use if you're stuck with a particular problem and have a one hour time-slot in which to study.
The most successful trainers utilise several support facilities around the globe in several time-zones. They use an online interactive interface to join them all seamlessly, any time of the day or night, help is just seconds away, without any contact issues or hassle.
If you accept anything less than support round-the-clock, you'll end up kicking yourself. It may be that you don't use it late at night, but you're bound to use weekends, late evenings or early mornings.
It's important to understand: the training program or a certification is not what you're looking for; the particular job you're training for is. Far too many training organisations put too much weight in the piece of paper.
Avoid becoming part of the group who choose a training program that sounds really 'interesting' and 'fun' - and end up with a certification for a career they'll never really get any satisfaction from.
It's well worth a long chat to see what industry will expect from you. Which precise exams they'll want you to gain and in what way you can gain some industry experience. It's also worth spending time thinking about how far you think you'll want to progress your career as often it can force you to choose a particular set of exams.
Take advice from a professional advisor, even if you have to pay - as it's a lot cheaper and safer to find out at the start whether you've chosen correctly, rather than find out after several years of study that you aren't going to enjoy the job you've chosen and have to start from the beginning again.
How can job security truly exist anymore? Here in the UK, where industry can change its mind whenever it suits, there doesn't seem much chance.
In actuality, security now only emerges in a fast rising market, driven by a lack of trained workers. It's this shortage that creates the right conditions for a secure marketplace - definitely a more pleasing situation.
The IT skills-gap in the United Kingdom is standing at approximately twenty six percent, according to the most recent e-Skills survey. That means for each four job positions existing across computing, we have only 3 certified professionals to fulfil that role.
This single reality on its own underpins why the United Kingdom urgently requires considerably more people to get into the industry.
Because the IT sector is evolving at such a rate, there really isn't any other sector worth investigating as a retraining vehicle.
Commercial certification is now, very visibly, taking over from the more academic tracks into IT - why then has this come about?
Accreditation-based training (as it's known in the industry) is far more effective and specialised. The IT sector has realised that specialisation is what's needed to meet the requirements of an acceleratingly technical commercial environment. Microsoft, CompTIA, CISCO and Adobe are the big boys in this field.
Academic courses, for example, become confusing because of a great deal of loosely associated study - with much too broad a syllabus. Students are then held back from understanding the specific essentials in enough depth.
Just as the old advertisement said: 'It does what it says on the tin'. Employers simply need to know where they have gaps, and then match up the appropriate exam numbers as a requirement. They'll know then that all applicants can do what they need.
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