Well done! Discovering this piece proves you must be pondering over your options, and if it's re-training you're considering that means you've taken it further than most. Can you believe that just one in ten of us consider ourselves fulfilled in our working life - but the majority will take no corrective action. We implore you to liberate yourself and do something - those who do hardly ever regret it.
We'd politely request that before you start any study program, you run through some things with a mentor who can see the bigger picture and can make recommendations. They can assess your personality and help you sort out a role to fit you:
* Do you see yourself dealing with people? Would that be with a small 'tightly-knit' team or with a lot of new people? Maybe working on your own on specific tasks may be your preference?
* Banking and building are struggling today, so which industry would suit you best?
* Is this the last time you want to study, and if it is, do you believe this career choice will service that need?
* Do you want your retraining to be in an industry where as far as you can see you will be able to work until your pension kicks in?
We would advise that one of your key sectors is the IT industry - it's common knowledge that it's getting bigger. It's not full of geeky individuals lost in their computer screens every day - naturally those roles do exist, but most jobs are filled with people like you and me who are earning rather well.
Students who consider this area of study are usually quite practically-minded, and don't really enjoy classrooms, and struggling through thick study-volumes. If you identify with this, try the newer style of interactive study, with on-screen demonstrations and labs. Long-term memory is enhanced when all our senses are brought into the mix - this has been an accepted fact in expert circles for years now.
The latest home-based training features interactive discs. Real-world classes from the instructors will mean you'll learn your subject by way of the expert demonstrations. Then it's time to test your knowledge by interacting with the software and practicing yourself. Each company you're contemplating should be able to show you a few samples of the materials provided for study. Make sure you encounter videos of instructor-led classes and interactive areas to practice in.
Opt for CD and DVD ROM based physical training media where possible. You're then protected from internet connection failure and issues with signal quality.
Most people don't even think to ask about a painfully important area - how their company actually breaks down and delivers the courseware sections, and into how many bits. Individual deliveries for each training module piece by piece, according to your own speed is the normal way of receiving your courseware. This sounds logical, but you must understand the following: What could you expect if you didn't actually complete everything at the required speed? Sometimes their preference of study order doesn't work as well as an alternative path could be.
An ideal situation would be to have all the training materials packed off to you immediately; the complete package! Then, nothing can hinder your capacity to get everything done.
One fatal mistake that students everywhere can make is to choose a career based on a course, rather than starting with the desired end-result. Colleges have thousands of unaware students who chose a course based on what sounded good - in place of something that could gain them the career they desired. It's quite usual, in many cases, to obtain tremendous satisfaction from a year of studying but end up spending 10 or 20 years in a career that does nothing for you, as a consequence of not performing some quality research at the beginning.
It's well worth a long chat to see the exact expectations industry will have. What accreditations they will want you to have and in what way you can gain some industry experience. It's definitely worth spending time setting guidelines as to how far you wish to go as it will often force you to choose a particular set of exams. Before you embark on a particular training programme, you'd be well advised to chat over individual job requirements with an experienced industry professional, in order to be sure the training course covers all that is required.
At times people don't really get what IT means. It is stimulating, innovative, and means you're a part of the huge progress of technology that will impact the whole world for generations to come. Many people are of the opinion that the increase in technology we've been going through is easing off. This couldn't be more wrong. Terrific advances are ahead of us, and the internet particularly will be the most effective tool in our lives.
Let's not forget that the average salary in the IT sector in Great Britain is noticeably more than average salaries nationally, therefore you will most likely receive significantly more once qualified in IT, than you'd get in most other industries. Because the IT market sector is still emerging at an unprecedented rate, the chances are that the requirement for professionally qualified and skilled IT workers will continue actively for quite some time to come.
It can be a nerve-racking task, but finding your first IT job is often relieved by training colleges, through a Job Placement Assistance service. Because of the great shortage of skills in Great Britain today, it's not necessary to place too much emphasis on this feature however. It's not as difficult as you may be led to believe to land employment once you're properly qualified.
Help with your CV and interview techniques may be available (if not, see one of our sites for help). Make sure you polish up your CV immediately - not after you've qualified! Getting your CV considered is far better than not even being known about. A decent number of junior positions are offered to people (who've only just left first base.) If you don't want to travel too far to work, then you may well find that a specialist locally based employment agency can generally be more appropriate than some national concern, for they're far more likely to be familiar with what's available near you.
In a nutshell, if you put the same amount of effort into securing a job as into training, you won't find it too challenging. A number of students inexplicably spend hundreds of hours on their course materials and then just stop once qualified and would appear to think that businesses will just discover them.
We'd politely request that before you start any study program, you run through some things with a mentor who can see the bigger picture and can make recommendations. They can assess your personality and help you sort out a role to fit you:
* Do you see yourself dealing with people? Would that be with a small 'tightly-knit' team or with a lot of new people? Maybe working on your own on specific tasks may be your preference?
* Banking and building are struggling today, so which industry would suit you best?
* Is this the last time you want to study, and if it is, do you believe this career choice will service that need?
* Do you want your retraining to be in an industry where as far as you can see you will be able to work until your pension kicks in?
We would advise that one of your key sectors is the IT industry - it's common knowledge that it's getting bigger. It's not full of geeky individuals lost in their computer screens every day - naturally those roles do exist, but most jobs are filled with people like you and me who are earning rather well.
Students who consider this area of study are usually quite practically-minded, and don't really enjoy classrooms, and struggling through thick study-volumes. If you identify with this, try the newer style of interactive study, with on-screen demonstrations and labs. Long-term memory is enhanced when all our senses are brought into the mix - this has been an accepted fact in expert circles for years now.
The latest home-based training features interactive discs. Real-world classes from the instructors will mean you'll learn your subject by way of the expert demonstrations. Then it's time to test your knowledge by interacting with the software and practicing yourself. Each company you're contemplating should be able to show you a few samples of the materials provided for study. Make sure you encounter videos of instructor-led classes and interactive areas to practice in.
Opt for CD and DVD ROM based physical training media where possible. You're then protected from internet connection failure and issues with signal quality.
Most people don't even think to ask about a painfully important area - how their company actually breaks down and delivers the courseware sections, and into how many bits. Individual deliveries for each training module piece by piece, according to your own speed is the normal way of receiving your courseware. This sounds logical, but you must understand the following: What could you expect if you didn't actually complete everything at the required speed? Sometimes their preference of study order doesn't work as well as an alternative path could be.
An ideal situation would be to have all the training materials packed off to you immediately; the complete package! Then, nothing can hinder your capacity to get everything done.
One fatal mistake that students everywhere can make is to choose a career based on a course, rather than starting with the desired end-result. Colleges have thousands of unaware students who chose a course based on what sounded good - in place of something that could gain them the career they desired. It's quite usual, in many cases, to obtain tremendous satisfaction from a year of studying but end up spending 10 or 20 years in a career that does nothing for you, as a consequence of not performing some quality research at the beginning.
It's well worth a long chat to see the exact expectations industry will have. What accreditations they will want you to have and in what way you can gain some industry experience. It's definitely worth spending time setting guidelines as to how far you wish to go as it will often force you to choose a particular set of exams. Before you embark on a particular training programme, you'd be well advised to chat over individual job requirements with an experienced industry professional, in order to be sure the training course covers all that is required.
At times people don't really get what IT means. It is stimulating, innovative, and means you're a part of the huge progress of technology that will impact the whole world for generations to come. Many people are of the opinion that the increase in technology we've been going through is easing off. This couldn't be more wrong. Terrific advances are ahead of us, and the internet particularly will be the most effective tool in our lives.
Let's not forget that the average salary in the IT sector in Great Britain is noticeably more than average salaries nationally, therefore you will most likely receive significantly more once qualified in IT, than you'd get in most other industries. Because the IT market sector is still emerging at an unprecedented rate, the chances are that the requirement for professionally qualified and skilled IT workers will continue actively for quite some time to come.
It can be a nerve-racking task, but finding your first IT job is often relieved by training colleges, through a Job Placement Assistance service. Because of the great shortage of skills in Great Britain today, it's not necessary to place too much emphasis on this feature however. It's not as difficult as you may be led to believe to land employment once you're properly qualified.
Help with your CV and interview techniques may be available (if not, see one of our sites for help). Make sure you polish up your CV immediately - not after you've qualified! Getting your CV considered is far better than not even being known about. A decent number of junior positions are offered to people (who've only just left first base.) If you don't want to travel too far to work, then you may well find that a specialist locally based employment agency can generally be more appropriate than some national concern, for they're far more likely to be familiar with what's available near you.
In a nutshell, if you put the same amount of effort into securing a job as into training, you won't find it too challenging. A number of students inexplicably spend hundreds of hours on their course materials and then just stop once qualified and would appear to think that businesses will just discover them.
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