CompTIA IT Study Across The UK – Options
PC and network support staff are ever more sought after in the UK, as institutions are becoming more reliant upon their knowledge and skills. The need for such qualified and commercially astute people is growing at an impressive rate, as commercial enterprise becomes more and more reliant on computers.
It’s likely that you’ve always enjoyed practical work – a ‘hands-on’ type. If you’re anything like us, the world of book-reading and classrooms is something you’ll make yourself do if you have to, but it’s not really your thing. Consider interactive, multimedia study if books just don’t do it for you.
Research into the way we learn shows that long term memory is improved when we use all our senses, and we get physically involved with the study process.
The latest audio-visual interactive programs involving demonstration and virtual lab’s will beat books every time. And you’ll actually enjoy doing them.
Be sure to get a study material demo’ from any training college. You should ask for instructor videos, demonstrations, slide-shows and virtual practice lab’s for your new skills.
You should avoid purely online training. Ideally, you should opt for CD and DVD ROM courseware where available, so that you have access at all times – and not be totally reliant on a good broadband connection all the time.
Kick out the typical salesman who offers any particular course without an in-depth conversation to better understand your current abilities and experience level. They should be able to select from a generous stable of training programs so they’re able to solve your training issues.
Occasionally, the training inception point for a trainee with experience can be vastly dissimilar to someone just starting out.
For students embarking on IT studies anew, it’s often a good idea to avoid jumping in at the deep-end, by working on user-skills and software training first. This can be built into most training packages.
Be watchful that any qualifications you’re working towards will be commercially viable and are up-to-date. ‘In-house’ exams and the certificates they come with are generally useless.
From an employer’s viewpoint, only the major heavyweights such as Microsoft, CompTIA, Adobe or Cisco (to give some examples) provide enough commercial weight. Nothing else will cut the mustard.
So many training providers are all about the certification, and forget what it’s all actually about – getting yourself a new job or career. Always start with the final destination in mind – don’t make the vehicle more important than the destination.
Avoid becoming one of the unfortunate masses that choose a course that sounds really ‘interesting’ and ‘fun’ – and end up with a certification for an unrewarding career path.
Stay tuned-in to where you want to go, and build your study action-plan from that – avoid getting them back-to-front. Stay on target and begin studying for something you’ll enjoy for years to come.
Sense dictates that you seek advice from an experienced professional before embarking on a particular training programme, so there’s little doubt that a program provides the skills necessary.
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