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With an abundance of IT and computer courses on offer these days, it’s best to take advice from a company that can help you decide on the right one for you. Reputable organisations will talk thoroughly through the different job roles that could be right for you, before offering you a training program that can take you where you want to go. Why not try Microsoft User Skills packages, or take a career track and specialise. Plain speaking courses will help you achieve the goals you set yourself.

With such a range of sensibly priced, simple to follow courses and support, you should inevitably discover the right one that will take you where you want to go.

If there’s any chance you’ll be enrolling with a training provider who is still using workshops as part of their program, then consider these issues encountered by the majority of trainees:

* Many round journeys - quite often hundreds of miles at a time.

* Asking for frequent time off work - typical companies provide weekday availability and group several days in a chunk. This can be hard for a lot of working people, especially if travelling time is added into the mix.

* If we get 4 weeks annual leave, giving half of them to training classes means we’ll be hard-pushed to get a holiday with our families.

* Classes can end up too big.

* Tension can run high in many classes where students want to progress at their own pace.

* Many students report that the (not inconsiderable) costs of getting to and from the training centre whilst paying for accommodation and food gets very expensive.

* Do you really want the possibility of getting side-stepped for a possible promotion or wage increases because of your studies.

* Surely, all of us at some time have avoided putting our hand’s up, because we wanted to look smarter?

* Working and living away - a fair few students need to live or work away for certain parts of their training. Classes become very difficult then, yet the money has already changed hands with your initial fees.

The perfect situation is to watch a videoed workshop - providing direct instruction whenever it’s convenient for you. Training can take place wherever it suits you. Got a laptop?… Then why not catch some sun in your garden while you learn. If any problem raises its head then make use of the 24×7 support. Note-taking is a thing of the past - all the lessons are prepared and laid out for you - ready to go. Any time you want to repeat something, just do it. Could it be more straightforward: You avoid travelling and wasting time and money; plus you get a more stress-free study atmosphere.

Watch out that all exams you’re considering doing will be commercially viable and are up-to-date. The ‘in-house’ certifications provided by many companies are usually worthless. Unless the accreditation comes from a conglomerate such as Microsoft, Adobe, CompTIA or Cisco, then it’s likely it won’t be commercially viable - because it won’t give an employer any directly-useable skills.

Considering how a program is ‘delivered’ to you isn’t always given the appropriate level of importance. How is the courseware broken down? And in what order and how fast does each element come? A release of your materials stage by stage, according to your own speed is how things will normally arrive. Of course, this sounds sensible, but you might like to consider this: It’s not unusual for trainees to realise that their providers ’standard’ path of training doesn’t suit. It’s often the case that a slightly different order suits them better. And what if you don’t get to the end at the pace they expect?

For the perfect solution, you want everything at the start - so you’ll have them all to come back to in the future - as and when you want. This allows a variation in the order that you complete your exams if another more intuitive route presents itself.