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Have you recently questioned your job security? For most people, this issue only becomes a talking point when we experience a knock-back. Unfortunately, the painful truth is that job security has gone the way of the dodo, for nearly everyone now. Security can now only exist via a quickly escalating marketplace, driven by a shortfall of trained staff. These circumstances create the right conditions for a higher level of market-security - a more attractive situation all round.

The 2006 national e-Skills survey highlighted that 26 percent of IT jobs are unfilled because of a huge deficit of properly qualified workers. Put directly, we can't properly place more than three out of each 4 job positions in IT. This basic reality shows an urgent requirement for more properly certified IT professionals across the country. It would be hard to imagine if a better time or market state of affairs could exist for obtaining certification in this quickly emerging and evolving industry.

Beginning from the viewpoint that it's necessary to locate the employment that excites us first, before we're able to ponder what training program would meet that requirement, how can we choose the correct route? What is our likelihood of grasping the many facets of a particular career when it's an alien environment to us? Most likely we don't even know anybody who does that actual job anyway. Consideration of many points is important when you need to reveal the right answer for you:

* The kind of individual you think yourself to be - the tasks that you get enjoyment from, plus of course - what don't you like doing.

* What is the time-frame for your training?

* Where do you stand on salary vs the travel required?

* Always think in-depth about the level of commitment needed to gain all the necessary accreditation.

* How much time you'll have available to set aside for obtaining your certification.

The best way to avoid all the jargon and confusion, and find the best path to success, have an informal meeting with an advisor with years of experience; an individual who can impart the commercial reality as well as the certifications.

Have a conversation with almost any professional consultant and they'll entertain you with many horror stories of students who've been sold completely the wrong course for them. Stick to a skilled professional that asks some in-depth questions to discover the most appropriate thing for you - not for their retirement-fund! You must establish an ideal starting-point that fits you. If you have a strong background, or maybe some work-based experience (possibly even some previous certification?) then it could be that the point from which you begin your studies will be very different from someone with no background whatsoever. Where this will be your opening crack at studying for an IT examination then you might also want to cut your teeth on some basic PC skills training first.

Those that are drawn to this type of work can be very practical by nature, and aren't really suited to the classroom environment, and slogging through piles of books. If this could be you, opt for more involving, interactive learning materials, with on-screen demonstrations and labs. Long-term memory is enhanced when multiple senses are involved - learning experts have been saying this for as long as we can remember.

Locate a program where you're provided with an array of CD and DVD ROM's - you'll begin by watching videos of instructors demonstrating the skills, and then have the opportunity to hone your abilities through virtual lab's. Each company you're contemplating should willingly take you through samples of the materials provided for study. You should hope for instructor-led videos and a wide selection of interactive elements.

Opt for physical media such as CD or DVD ROM's in all circumstances. Thus avoiding all the issues associated with broadband outages, failure and signal quality issues etc.

It's quite a normal occurrence for students not to check on something of absolutely vital importance - how their training provider breaks up the courseware, and into what particular chunks. Students often think it makes sense (with most training taking 1-3 years for a full commercial certification,) for many training providers to send out the courseware in stages, until you've passed all the exams. However: Sometimes the steps or stages prescribed by the provider doesn't suit you. It may be difficult to get through all the modules inside of their particular timetable?

To provide the maximum security and flexibility, most students now choose to insist that all study materials are couriered out in one package, all at the beginning. That means it's down to you how fast or slow and in what order you'd like to work.