Just ten percent of adults in this country are pleased and contented with their working life. The vast majority of course will take no action. You’ve reached this paragraph, which at a minimum means that you’ve realised change must come.
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:
* Would you like to work with others? If the answer’s yes, would you enjoy being part of a team or are you hoping to meet new people? Alternatively, do you like to deal with your responsibilities alone?
* Building and Banking are facing difficulties at the moment, so which sector will answer your needs?
* 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.
Help and assistance with preparing a CV and getting interviews is sometimes offered (if not, see one of our sites for help). Make sure you update that dusty old CV today – not when you’re ready to start work!
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.
If you’d like to get employment in your home town, then you may well find that an independent and specialised local employment service may work much better for you than the trainer’s recruitment division, due to the fact that they are much more inclined to have insider knowledge of what’s available near you.
Certainly ensure you don’t put hundreds of hours of effort into your studies, only to stop and imagine someone else is miraculously going to find you a job. Stand up for yourself and get out there. Channel the same focus into finding your first job as it took to get qualified.
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 starting to get an inclination of how technology will influence everything we do. Computers and the Internet will massively revolutionise how we see and interact with the world as a whole over the years to come.
And it’s worth remembering that the average salary in the world of IT throughout this country is much higher than the national average salary, so you’ll probably receive much more in the IT sector, than you would in most typical jobs.
Experts agree that there’s a substantial national demand for trained and qualified IT technicians. It follows that with the constant growth in the marketplace, it appears this will be the case for a good while yet.
Starting with the idea that we have to home-in on the employment that excites us first, before we can even weigh up which training course fulfils our needs, how are we supposed to find the way that suits us?
How can most of us possibly understand the tasks faced daily in an IT career when we’ve never done it? Most likely we don’t know someone who is in that area at all.
Usually, the way to come at this quandary correctly comes from an in-depth chat, covering several different topics:
* Our personalities play a significant role – what kind of areas spark your interest, and what are the areas that get you down.
* Are you hoping to get certified for a particular reason – for example, do you aim to work from home (self-employment possibly?)?
* Your earning requirements that are important to you?
* Learning what typical career roles and sectors are – and what makes them different.
* It’s wise to spend some time thinking about the amount of time and effort you’ll put into gaining your certifications.
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.
Make sure that all your certifications are what employers want – forget programs that lead to in-house certificates.
Only properly recognised examinations from the major players like Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and Adobe will have any meaning to employers.
Written by Scott Edwards. Visit MCSE Courses or www.comptiacertification.co.uk.
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