The somewhat scary thought of securing your first job is often eased by some training providers because they offer a Job Placement Assistance service. Often, this feature is bigged up too much, as it is actually not that hard for well qualified and focused men and women to land work in IT - as employers are keen to find appropriately skilled employees.

However, what is relevant is to have advice and support about your CV and interviews though; and we'd recommend any student to work on polishing up their CV the day they start training - don't delay for when you're ready to start work. A good number of junior support roles have been offered to students who are in the process of training and haven't got any qualifications yet. This will at the very least get your CV into the 'possible' pile and not the 'no' pile. In many cases, a specialist locally based employment agency (who will get paid by the employer when they've placed you) should get better results than any centralised training company's service. They should, of course, also know the local industry and employment needs.

Various trainees, so it seems, invest a great deal of time on their training course (sometimes for years), only to give up at the first hurdle when looking for the right position. Sell yourself... Work hard to put yourself out there. A job isn't just going to bump into you.

Often, people don't understand what information technology can do for us. It's thrilling, changing, and means you're working on technology that will affect us all over the next generation. We've only just begun to scrape the surface of how technology will influence everything we do. Computers and the Internet will massively revolutionise how we view and interrelate with the rest of the world over the coming decades.

A typical IT man or woman throughout Britain can demonstrate that they receive a lot more than equivalent professionals outside of IT. Average incomes are some of the best to be had nationwide. Experts agree that there's a considerable national requirement for trained and qualified IT technicians. In addition, as growth in the industry shows little sign of contracting, it seems this will be the case for quite some time to come.

Ensure all your exams are current and also valid commercially - don't bother with studies which lead to some in-house certificate (which is as useless as if you'd printed it yourself). All the major commercial players such as Microsoft, Adobe, CompTIA or Cisco all have widely approved proficiency courses. These big-hitters will make your CV stand-out.

Exam 'guarantees' are sometimes offered as part of a training package - inevitably that means paying for the exams before you've even made a start on the course. But before you get taken in by guaranteed exams, consider this:

You'll be charged for it ultimately. You can be assured it's not a freebie - they've just worked it into the package price. Should you seriously need to pass in one, evidence suggests you must pay for one exam at a time, give it the priority it deserves and apply yourself as required.

Sit the exam somewhere close to home and look for the very best offer you can at the time. Considerable numbers of questionable training companies secure a great deal of profit by getting in the money for exam fees early then cashing in if they're not all taken. Many training companies will insist that you take mock exams first and not allow you to re-take an exam until you have proved to them you have a good chance of passing - which actually leaves you with no guarantee at all.

Spending hundreds or even thousands extra on 'Exam Guarantees' is foolish - when study, commitment and preparing with good quality mock and practice exams is actually the key to your success.

An all too common mistake that potential students often succumb to is to concentrate on the course itself, and not focus on where they want to get to. Schools are brimming over with students that chose an 'interesting' course - instead of the program that would surely get them an enjoyable career or job. It's common, in some situations, to obtain tremendous satisfaction from a year of studying and then spend 20 miserable years in something completely unrewarding, simply because you did it without some decent due-diligence when it was needed - at the start.

Set targets for how much you want to earn and how ambitious you are. This will influence which particular accreditations will be required and what industry will expect from you in return. We'd recommend you always seek guidance and advice from a skilled advisor before embarking on a study course, so there's no doubt that the specific package will give the skills necessary.

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