If Cisco training is your aspiration, and you've not yet worked with routers or network switches, you should first attempt CCNA certification. This will provide you with knowledge and skills to work with routers. The internet is made up of hundreds of thousands of routers, and large commercial ventures with many locations also need routers to allow their networks to keep in touch.
It's very probable you'll get a job with an internet service provider or a big organisation which is located on multiple sites but still wants secure internal data communication. These jobs are well paid and in demand.
It's advisable to do a bespoke training program that will take you through a specific training path ahead of starting your training in Cisco skills.
One thing you must always insist on is 24x7 round-the-clock support with trained professional instructors and mentors. Too many companies only seem to want to help while they're in the office (9am till 6pm, Monday till Friday usually) and nothing at the weekends.
Never buy certification programs which can only support trainees through a message system after 6-9pm in the evening and during weekends. Trainers will give you every excuse in the book why you don't need this. The bottom line is - support is required when it's required - not when it's convenient for them.
The best trainers utilise several support facilities around the globe in several time-zones. An online system provides an interactive interface to seamlessly link them all together, irrespective of the time you login, help is at hand, with no hassle or contact issues.
Never make the mistake of compromise when it comes to your support. The majority of would-be IT professionals that can't get going properly, would have had a different experience if they'd got the right support package in the first place.
Beginning with the idea that it makes sense to home-in on the employment that excites us first, before we can even mull over which development program fulfils our needs, how can we choose the right direction?
Because without any solid background in computing, how should we possibly understand what someone in a particular job does?
Consideration of several areas is vital if you want to expose the right answers:
* The type of personality you have and interests - which work-centred jobs you love or hate.
* What time-frame are you looking at for your training?
* How highly do you rate salary - is it the most important thing, or is job satisfaction higher up on your priority-list?
* Understanding what the main IT roles and markets are - and what makes them different.
* The level of commitment and effort you'll commit getting qualified.
To be honest, it's obvious that the only real way to investigate these matters tends to be through a good talk with an advisor or professional who has years of experience in IT (as well as it's commercial requirements.)
Commercial certification is now, undoubtedly, beginning to replace the traditional academic paths into IT - but why is this?
Corporate based study (to use industry-speak) is far more specialised and product-specific. Industry has realised that this level of specialised understanding is essential to meet the requirements of an increasingly more technical marketplace. Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA are the dominant players.
Of course, an appropriate quantity of relevant additional information has to be covered, but focused specialised knowledge in the required areas gives a commercially trained person a distinct advantage.
What if you were an employer - and you required somebody who had very specific skills. What is easier: Trawl through loads of academic qualifications from several applicants, trying to establish what they know and which vocational skills they've acquired, or choose particular accreditations that specifically match what you're looking for, and make your short-list from that. Your interviews are then about personal suitability - rather than on the depth of their technical knowledge.
A study programme must provide a nationally accepted exam as an end-result - and not some unimportant 'in-house' diploma - fit only for filing away and forgetting.
If your certification doesn't come from a big-hitter like Microsoft, CompTIA, Adobe or Cisco, then it's likely it won't be commercially viable - as no-one will have heard of it.
It's very probable you'll get a job with an internet service provider or a big organisation which is located on multiple sites but still wants secure internal data communication. These jobs are well paid and in demand.
It's advisable to do a bespoke training program that will take you through a specific training path ahead of starting your training in Cisco skills.
One thing you must always insist on is 24x7 round-the-clock support with trained professional instructors and mentors. Too many companies only seem to want to help while they're in the office (9am till 6pm, Monday till Friday usually) and nothing at the weekends.
Never buy certification programs which can only support trainees through a message system after 6-9pm in the evening and during weekends. Trainers will give you every excuse in the book why you don't need this. The bottom line is - support is required when it's required - not when it's convenient for them.
The best trainers utilise several support facilities around the globe in several time-zones. An online system provides an interactive interface to seamlessly link them all together, irrespective of the time you login, help is at hand, with no hassle or contact issues.
Never make the mistake of compromise when it comes to your support. The majority of would-be IT professionals that can't get going properly, would have had a different experience if they'd got the right support package in the first place.
Beginning with the idea that it makes sense to home-in on the employment that excites us first, before we can even mull over which development program fulfils our needs, how can we choose the right direction?
Because without any solid background in computing, how should we possibly understand what someone in a particular job does?
Consideration of several areas is vital if you want to expose the right answers:
* The type of personality you have and interests - which work-centred jobs you love or hate.
* What time-frame are you looking at for your training?
* How highly do you rate salary - is it the most important thing, or is job satisfaction higher up on your priority-list?
* Understanding what the main IT roles and markets are - and what makes them different.
* The level of commitment and effort you'll commit getting qualified.
To be honest, it's obvious that the only real way to investigate these matters tends to be through a good talk with an advisor or professional who has years of experience in IT (as well as it's commercial requirements.)
Commercial certification is now, undoubtedly, beginning to replace the traditional academic paths into IT - but why is this?
Corporate based study (to use industry-speak) is far more specialised and product-specific. Industry has realised that this level of specialised understanding is essential to meet the requirements of an increasingly more technical marketplace. Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA are the dominant players.
Of course, an appropriate quantity of relevant additional information has to be covered, but focused specialised knowledge in the required areas gives a commercially trained person a distinct advantage.
What if you were an employer - and you required somebody who had very specific skills. What is easier: Trawl through loads of academic qualifications from several applicants, trying to establish what they know and which vocational skills they've acquired, or choose particular accreditations that specifically match what you're looking for, and make your short-list from that. Your interviews are then about personal suitability - rather than on the depth of their technical knowledge.
A study programme must provide a nationally accepted exam as an end-result - and not some unimportant 'in-house' diploma - fit only for filing away and forgetting.
If your certification doesn't come from a big-hitter like Microsoft, CompTIA, Adobe or Cisco, then it's likely it won't be commercially viable - as no-one will have heard of it.
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