As you’re looking to study a course to qualify for an MCSE, you’ll fall into one of two camps. You’re either just starting to enter the world of IT, and you’ve found the industry has a huge demand for men and women who are commercially qualified. Or you possibly are someone with a certain amount of knowledge looking to formalise your skill set with the MCSE qualification.
During your research, you’ll come across companies that lower their out-goings by failing to provide the latest version from Microsoft. Avoid these companies as you’ll experience challenges at exam time. If you’re learning from the wrong version, it is going to be hugely difficult to get qualified.
Avoid businesses who are just trying to sell you something. You deserve time, expertise and advice to make sure you are registering on the correct course. Resist being forced into a standard product by an inadequate outfit.
Of all the important things to consider, one of the most essential is always full 24×7 support from expert mentors and instructors. So many companies we come across only provide office hours (or extended office hours) support.
some companies only provide email support (slow), and so-called telephone support is normally just routed to a call-centre which will take the information and email an instructor – who will attempt to call you within 24-48 hrs, when it suits them. This is all next to useless if you’re sitting there confused over an issue and only have a specific time you can study.
The very best training providers have many support offices active in different time-zones. By utilising an interactive interface to seamlessly link them all, no matter what time you login, help is at hand, with no hassle or contact issues.
Look for a training company that offers this level of study support. Because only live 24×7 round-the-clock support provides the necessary backup.
Many training companies will provide a useful Job Placement Assistance program, to help you get your first job. In reality it isn’t a complex operation to get a job – as long as you’re correctly trained and certified; the growing UK skills shortage sees to that.
Nevertheless, avoid waiting until you’ve qualified before bringing your CV up to date. As soon as your training commences, list what you’re working on and tell people about it!
You’ll often find that you will get your first position whilst still on the course (sometimes when you’ve only just got going). If your CV doesn’t say what you’re learning – or it’s not getting in front of interviewers, then you’re not even going to be known about!
If you’d like to keep travelling time and costs to a minimum, then you’ll probably find that a local IT focused recruitment consultancy could be more appropriate than a centralised service, due to the fact that they’re going to be familiar with what’s available near you.
To bottom line it, as long as you put the same commitment into getting a position as into studying, you won’t have any problems. Some men and women curiously spend hundreds of hours on their training course and then just stop once they’ve passed their exams and would appear to think that businesses will just discover them.
Those that are drawn to this type of work are usually quite practically-minded, and won’t enjoy sitting at a desk in class, and struggling through thick study-volumes. If this is putting you off studying, try the newer style of interactive study, where you can learn everything on-screen.
We see a huge improvement in memory retention when we use multiple senses – this has been an accepted fact in expert circles for many years.
Programs are now found in the form of CD and DVD ROM’s, where everything is taught on your PC. Video streaming means you will be able to see the instructor presenting exactly how it’s all done, and then practice yourself – with interactive lab sessions.
You must ensure that you see the type of training provided by the company you’re considering. Be sure that they contain full motion videos of instructors demonstrating the topic with lab’s to practice the skills in.
Opt for CD and DVD ROM based physical training media whenever you can. You’re then protected from the variability of broadband quality and service.
The best type of training package should have Microsoft (or key company) exam preparation systems.
Some students can find themselves confused by trying to prepare themselves with questions that aren’t recognised by official sources. Often, the question formats and phraseology is startlingly different and you should be prepared for this.
Mock exams are enormously valuable as a tool for logging knowledge into your brain – so when it comes to taking the real thing, you don’t get phased.
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