Well done! Reading this subject matter indicates you’re probably thinking about your future, and if it’s new career training you’re deliberating over that means you’ve taken it further than the majority of people will. Did you know that surprisingly few of us are contented at work – yet most will just put up with it. Why not break free and take action – think about how you could enjoy Monday mornings.
We recommend you seek advice first – find an industry expert; an advisor who can discover your ideal job, and offer only the career tracks that will suit you:
* Do you want to interact with other people? If so, do you like working with the same people or are you hoping to meet new people? Or are you better working in isolation?
* What elements are you looking for from the market sector you work in? (Building and banking – not so stable as they once were.)
* Having completed your retraining, would you like your skills to see you to retirement age?
* Do you think being qualified will give you the chance to find the work you’re looking for, and remain in employment until your retirement plans kick in?
It would be an idea for you to really explore Information Technology – there are more positions than people to do them, and it’s one of the few choices of career where the sector is on the grow. Contrary to the opinions of certain people, it isn’t a bunch of techie geeks staring at their computers the whole time (if you like the sound of that though, they do exist.) Most positions are done by people like you and me who enjoy better than average salaries.
A major candidate for the top potential problem in IT training is often the ‘in-centre’ workshop requirement. Most training schools extol the virtues of the ‘benefits’ of going in to their classes, however, they quickly become a major problem because of:
* All the travelling required – multiple journeys and usually 100’s of miles each time.
* If, like many of us, you work, then weekday only events represent a difficulty in getting time off. You’re usually looking at at least 2, if not 3 days in a row.
* Most of us find 4 weeks off each year is not really enough. Spend at least half of this for educational classes and you’ll experience even more problems.
* Classes usually get fully subscribed quite quickly, meaning we have to accept a slot that doesn’t really suit.
* Tension can run high in many classes where different students want to work at different paces.
* Most trainees speak about the high (and unexpected) costs associated with all the travelling back and forth to the centre while forking out for food and accommodation becomes prohibitively expensive.
* It’s important to maintain privacy. We don’t want to risk losing any advancement that we’re owed while we retrain.
* Surely, all of us at some time have avoided putting our hand’s up, because we didn’t want to look stupid?
* It should be remembered that days in-centre become basically unreachable, if you work elsewhere in the country for days at a time.
The best possible solution is watching a filmed workshop – providing direct instruction whenever it’s convenient for you.
Do them at home on your desktop computer or out in the garden on your laptop. Any questions that pop up, just make use of the 24×7 support (that we hope you’ll insist on with any technical courses.)
There’s no need to take notes – every lesson is laid out for you already. Anything you want to do over, just go for it.
Quite simply: Time and money is saved, you have reduced hassle and you completely avoid polluting our environment.
A proficient and professional consultant (vs a salesman) will cover in some detail your current situation. This is paramount to calculating your study start-point.
Don’t forget, if you’ve got any accreditation or direct-experience, then you can sometimes expect to begin at a different level to a trainee with no history to speak of.
If this is going to be your opening crack at an IT exam then you may want to begin with user-skills and software training first.
