If you’re looking for Cisco training but you have no experience with routers, the right certification is a CCNA. This course is designed to instruct men and women who need practical know how on routers. Large companies who have various regional departments need routers to join up their networks in different buildings to allow their networks to keep in touch. The Internet is also built up of hundreds of thousands of routers.
Getting this certification means you’ll most probably find yourself working for national or international companies that are spread out geographically, but still want internal communication. The other possibility is working for internet service providers. Either way, you’ll be in demand and can expect a high salary.
Getting your Cisco CCNA is more than adequate; don’t be cajoled into attempting your CCNP. After gaining experience in the working environment, you’ll know if it’s relevant for you to have this next level up. Should that be the case, your experience will serve as the background you need for the CCNP – because it’s far from a walk in the park – and shouldn’t be looked upon as otherwise.
Searching for your first position in IT sometimes feels easier to handle with a Job Placement Assistance service. It can happen though that there is more emphasis than is necessary on this service, because it’s relatively easy for well qualified and focused men and women to secure work in the IT environment – as employers are keen to find appropriately qualified personnel.
Whatever you do, don’t wait till you have finished your training before polishing up your CV. The day you start training, mark down what you’re doing and tell people about it!
Having the possibility of an interview is better than being rejected. A decent number of junior support jobs are bagged by people who are still at an early stage in their studies.
Most often, a local IT focused recruitment consultancy (who will, of course, be keen to place you to receive their commission) is going to give you a better service than a division of a training company. It also stands to reason that they’ll know the local area and commercial needs.
To bottom line it, as long as you put the same commitment into getting a position as into studying, you won’t find it too challenging. Some people inexplicably spend hundreds of hours on their training and studies and then call a halt once they’ve got certified and would appear to think that businesses will just discover them.
A lot of trainees assume that the state educational route is the way they should go. So why are qualifications from the commercial sector beginning to overtake it?
Industry is now aware that to cover the necessary commercial skill-sets, certified accreditation supplied for example by CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA is closer to the mark commercially – saving time and money.
This is done through honing in on the skill-sets required (along with a relevant amount of background knowledge,) rather than going into the heightened depths of background non-specific minutiae that degrees in computing can get bogged down in (because the syllabus is so wide).
If an employer is aware what areas they need covered, then they simply need to advertise for someone with a specific qualification. Syllabuses are set to meet an exact requirement and can’t change from one establishment to the next (as academic syllabuses often do).
Your training program should always include the latest Microsoft (or any other key organisation’s) authorised exam preparation and simulation materials.
Because a lot of IT examining boards tend to be American, you need to become familiar with their phraseology. It’s not sufficient just going through the right questions – they have to be in the same format as the actual exams.
A way to build self-confidence is if you analyse your knowledge through quizzes and practice in simulated exam environments to get you ready for the proper exam.
Ask a professional advisor and they can normally tell you many worrying experiences of how students have been duped by salespeople. Ensure you only ever work with an experienced advisor who asks lots of questions to uncover the best thing for you – not for their bank-account! You need to find the right starting point of study for you.
Where you have a strong background, or perhaps a bit of commercial experience (some industry qualifications maybe?) then it’s more than likely your starting point will be different from a trainee who has no experience.
Starting with a user skills module first can be the best way to commence your IT training, depending on your current skill level.
Written by Scott Edwards. Pop to CiscoTrainingInfo.co.uk or HERE.
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