by: Jason Kendall
CCNA is where it all starts for Cisco training. This will enable you to operate on the maintenance and installation of routers and switches. Fundamentally, the internet is based upon huge numbers of routers, and big organisations who have a number of branches need them to keep their networks in touch.
As routers are connected to networks, it is necessary to have an understanding of how networks function, or you'll struggle with the training and be unable to understand the work. Find training that includes basic networking skills (such as CompTIA) prior to starting your CCNA.
You'll need a tailored route that covers everything to make sure you have the correct skill set and knowledge before getting going with Cisco.
Many trainers have a handy Job Placement Assistance facility, to help you get your first job. Because of the great shortage of skills in this country right now, there isn't a great need to make too much of this option though. It's not as difficult as you may be led to believe to find your first job as long as you've got the necessary skills and qualifications.
Advice and support about getting interviews and your CV may be available (if it isn't, consult one of our sites). Make sure you work on your old CV today - not when you're ready to start work! Quite often, you'll land your first position whilst you're still studying (even when you've just left first base). If your CV doesn't show your latest training profile (and it's not being looked at by employers) then you don't stand a chance! If you'd like to get employment in your home town, then you'll probably find that a local (but specialised) recruitment consultancy can generally work much better for you than some national concern, for they're far more likely to have insider knowledge of what's available near you.
Please be sure that you don't conscientiously work through your course materials, and then just stop and expect somebody else to find you a job. Get off your backside and make your own enquiries. Put the same resource into finding your new role as you did to get trained.
If you forget everything else - then just remember this: Always get full 24x7 instructor and mentor support. Later, you'll kick yourself if you don't adhere to this. Avoid, like the plague, any organisations who use 'out-of-hours' messaging systems - with your call-back scheduled for the next 'working' day. This is no use if you're stuck and want support there and then.
Be on the lookout for training schools that incorporate three or four individual support centres from around the world. Every one of them needs to be seamlessly combined to provide a single interface as well as round-the-clock access, when it suits you, with no hassle. Seek out an educator that gives this level of learning support. Only proper live 24x7 support truly delivers for technical programs.
Locating job security nowadays is incredibly rare. Businesses will remove us from the workplace at the drop of a hat - whenever it suits. Where there are rising skills deficits coupled with high demand areas however, we often hit upon a newly emerging type of security in the marketplace; driven by a continual growth, businesses struggle to find the number of people required.
Taking a look at the Information Technology (IT) business, a recent e-Skills study showed a more than 26 percent shortage in trained professionals. It follows then that for each 4 job positions existing in the computer industry, companies can only find trained staff for 3 of them. Attaining the appropriate commercial Information Technology exams is consequently a fast-track to achieve a continuing as well as pleasing profession. Undoubtedly, now really is the very best time to train for IT.
Commercial qualifications are now, very visibly, starting to replace the more academic tracks into the IT industry - why then is this happening? As we require increasingly more effective technological know-how, industry has had to move to the specialised training that can only be obtained from the actual vendors - namely companies like Microsoft, CompTIA, CISCO and Adobe. This usually turns out to involve less time and financial outlay. Vendor training works by focusing on the actual skills required (together with a relevant amount of background knowledge,) instead of trawling through all the background detail and 'fluff' that computer Science Degrees can often find themselves doing - to pad out the syllabus.
What if you were an employer - and your company needed a person with some very particular skills. What should you do: Go through loads of academic qualifications from hopeful applicants, asking for course details and which workplace skills they've acquired, or pick out specific commercial accreditations that exactly fulfil your criteria, and draw up from that who you want to speak to. The interview is then more about the person and how they'll fit in - rather than on the depth of their technical knowledge.
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