In today’s high speed society, support workers who are able to solve problems with computers and networks, along with giving regular solutions to users, are essential in all areas of the business environment. Our country’s need for better qualified personnel is enhanced, as human beings become ever more dependent on computers in today’s environment.
Watch out that all certifications you’re studying for are commercially relevant and are bang up to date. Training companies own certificates are not normally useful in gaining employment. If your certification doesn’t come from a company like Microsoft, CompTIA, Adobe or Cisco, then chances are it will have been a waste of time – as it’ll be an unknown commodity.
Review the points below and pay great regard to them if you believe that over-used sales technique about ‘guaranteeing’ exams sounds like a benefit to the student:
You’re paying for it somehow. You can be assured it’s not a freebie – they’ve simply charged more for the whole training package. If you want to qualify first ‘go’, then the most successful route is to avoid exam guarantees and pay when entering exams, give it the priority it deserves and apply yourself as required.
Isn’t it outrageous to have to pay the training college in advance for examinations? Go for the best offer at the time, instead of paying any mark-up – and take it closer to home – instead of miles away at the college’s beck and call. A lot of extra profit is made by many companies that incorporate exam fees into the cost of the course. For quite legitimate reasons, a number of students don’t get to do their exams but no refunds are given. Surprising as it sounds, there are training companies who actually bank on it – and that’s how they increase their profits. In addition to this, ‘Exam Guarantees’ often aren’t worth the paper they’re written on. Most companies won’t pay for you to re-take until you’ve completely satisfied them that you’re ready this time.
Spending hundreds or even thousands extra on an ‘Exam Guarantee’ is foolish – when study, commitment and preparing with good quality mock and practice exams is what will really see you through.
Commercially accredited qualifications are now, without a doubt, already replacing the more academic tracks into IT – so why is this? With 3 and 4 year academic degree costs becoming a tall order for many, and the industry’s increasing awareness that key company training is often far more commercially relevant, there has been a great increase in CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA accredited training programmes that create knowledgeable employees at a fraction of the cost and time involved. University courses, for example, clog up the training with vast amounts of background study – and a syllabus that’s too generalised. Students are then prevented from getting enough core and in-depth understanding on a specific area.
It’s a bit like the TV advert: ‘It does what it says on the tin’. All an employer has to do is know what they need doing, and then advertise for someone with the specific certification. Then they know that anyone who applies can do the necessary work.
Potential trainees looking to build an Information Technology career usually have no idea of what route is best, or even what market to achieve their certification in. Consequently, if you’ve got no background in the IT sector, how are you equipped to know what a particular IT employee actually does day-to-day? Let alone decide on what accreditation path is the most likely for ultimate success. To work through this, there should be a discussion of a number of definitive areas:
* Your personality type as well as your interests – what kind of working tasks you like and dislike.
* Is your focus to obtain training because of a specific motive – i.e. are you pushing to work based at home (being your own boss?)?
* Is the money you make further up on your priority-list than some other areas.
* Because there are so many ways to train in the IT industry – it’s wise to pick up some key facts on what differentiates them.
* Having a proper look at how much time and effort that you’re going to put into it.
At the end of the day, the most intelligent way of covering these is from a long chat with someone that understands the market well enough to give you the information required.
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