If you’re seeking certified training from Microsoft, you will no doubt be hoping for training organisations to provide a good number of the best learning programmes available today.
Perhaps you’d hope to be given advice on the careers you might go for when you’ve finished studying, and what sort of person those jobs may be appropriate for. Lots of people like to discuss what would be best for them.
Make sure your training program is tailored to your skills and abilities. A quality company will make sure that the training is appropriate for the status you wish to achieve.
Beware of putting too much emphasis, as many people do, on the certification itself. Training for training’s sake is generally pointless; you’re training to become commercially employable. Stay focused on what it is you want to achieve.
It’s a sad testimony to the sales skills of many companies, but a large percentage of students start out on programs that sound great from the marketing materials, but which delivers a career that is of no interest at all. Speak to a selection of university students for examples.
It’s essential to keep your focus on where you want to go, and formulate your training based on that – not the other way round. Stay on target and study for a job you’ll still be enjoying many years from now.
Long before starting a study course, you’d be well advised to talk through specific market needs with an industry professional, to make sure the study program covers all the necessary elements.
The classroom style of learning we remember from school, with books and manuals, is an up-hill struggle for the majority of us. If you’re nodding as you read this, find training programs that are multimedia based.
Many years of research has time and time again demonstrated that becoming involved with our studies, to utilise all our senses, will more likely produce memories that are deeper and longer-lasting.
Top of the range study programs now offer interactive CD and DVD ROM’s. By watching and listening to instructors on video tutorials you’ll take everything in by way of the expert demonstrations. Then you test your knowledge by interacting with the software and practicing yourself.
All companies should be able to show you a few examples of their training materials. Make sure you encounter videos of instructor-led classes and a variety of interactive modules.
Seek out CD or DVD ROM based materials wherever available. You’re then protected from internet connection failure and issues with signal quality.
Many training companies have a handy Job Placement Assistance program, designed to steer you into your first job. In reality it isn’t so complicated as you might think to land the right work – as long as you’ve got the necessary skills and qualifications; the shortage of IT personnel in Britain looks after that.
However, avoid waiting until you have passed your final exams before bringing your CV up to date. Right at the beginning of your training, enter details of your study programme and place it on jobsites!
Many junior support jobs have been bagged by students who are still learning and haven’t got any qualifications yet. At least this will get your CV into the ‘possible’ pile and not the ‘no’ pile.
If you don’t want to travel too far to work, then you may well find that an independent and specialised local employment service may serve you better than a centralised service, due to the fact that they’re going to have insider knowledge of the local job scene.
Not inconsiderable numbers of trainees, it would appear, put a great deal of effort into their studies (for years sometimes), only to give up at the first hurdle when trying to get a good job. Introduce yourself… Do everything you can to let employers know about you. Don’t think a job’s just going to jump out in front of you.
An important area that is sometimes not even considered by new students considering a training program is ‘training segmentation’. Essentially, this is how the program is broken down into parts for timed release to you, which can make a dramatic difference to how you end up.
By and large, you will purchase a course staged over 2 or 3 years and receive a module at a time. This sounds logical on one level, until you consider this:
What would happen if you didn’t finish everything at the speed they required? Often the staged order doesn’t work as well as some other order of studying might.
To avoid any potential future issues, it’s not unusual for students to make sure that every element of their training is sent immediately, and not in a piecemeal fashion. That means it’s down to you at what speed and in which order you’d like to take your exams.
Copyright Scott Edwards 2010. Look at HTML Programming or www.Careers-Advisor.co.uk/caradvl.html.
July 5, 2010 by Jason Kendall
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