Without a steady stream of well educated computer and network support workers, industry in the UK (along with most other places) would surely be brought to its knees. There is an ever growing requirement for technically able people to support systems and users alike. Because of the complex nature of technology, growing numbers of qualified workers are being looked for to run the various different areas we've come to rely on.

Ask almost any practiced advisor and they'll entertain you with many terrible tales of students who've been sold completely the wrong course for them. Ensure you only ever work with an experienced industry advisor who digs deep to find out what's right for you - not for their retirement-fund! Dig until you find the right starting point of study for you. Where you have a strong background, or sometimes a little work-based experience (some industry qualifications maybe?) then obviously your starting level will be very different from a trainee who has no experience. Opening with a foundation module first may be the ideal way to get into your IT programme, but really depends on your level of familiarity with computers.

Ensure all your accreditations are current and what employers are looking for - forget programs that only give in-house certificates. From an employer's perspective, only the top companies such as Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco or Adobe (to give some examples) will get you into the interview seat. Anything less won't make the grade.

It's abundantly clear: There really is pretty much no individual job security anymore; there can only be market and business security - as any company can fire a solitary member of staff when it meets the business' trade interests. Security can now only exist in a quickly growing market, driven by a shortage of trained workers. It's this shortage that creates the right conditions for a higher level of market-security - a more attractive situation all round.

The computing Industry skills deficit in the country clocks in at around twenty six percent, as noted by a recent e-Skills survey. Quite simply, we only have the national capacity to fill just 3 out of each four job positions in Information Technology (IT). Gaining proper commercial computer accreditation is correspondingly a 'Fast Track' to a long-term as well as enjoyable line of work. It would be hard to imagine if a better time or market conditions could exist for gaining qualification for this hugely emerging and developing sector.

Many trainers will provide a useful Job Placement Assistance service, to assist your search for your first position. Because of the growing need for more IT skills in the UK at the moment, it's not necessary to become overly impressed with this service however. It isn't such a complex operation to secure your first job once you're well trained and qualified.

One important thing though, avoid waiting until you've completed your exams before polishing up your CV. The day you start training, mark down what you're doing and place it on jobsites! It can happen that you haven't even taken your exams when you will get your initial junior support position; however this isn't going to happen if interviewers don't get sight of your CV. The most reliable organisations to help you find a job are most often specialist independent regional recruitment consultancies. Because they make their money when they've found you a job, they have more incentive to get on with it.

Do be sure that you don't invest a great deal of time on your training course, just to give up and leave it up to everyone else to land you a job. Get off your backside and get on with the job. Put as much time and energy into getting your new role as it took to pass the exams.

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