With an abundance of IT courses available, it can be difficult to find the right one. Choose one that's on a par with your abilities and personality, and that's in demand in the commercial world. There's a massive choice when it comes to training - from Microsoft User Skills right up to training programs for programmers, web designers, networkers etc. Take some counsel before you take the plunge - talk to an advisor with experience in commercial IT. An individual who has the ability to select the right career path for you - that's both relevant to industry and will give you a stimulating career.

By concentrating on service and delivery, there are now companies offering up-to-the-minute courses that blend the finest training and assistance for a fraction of the prices asked for by traditional establishments.

How can job security honestly exist anymore? Here in the UK, with industry changing its mind at alarming speeds, there doesn't seem much chance. However, a fast growing sector, with a constant demand for staff (because of a massive shortfall of trained people), opens the possibility of real job security.

The computer industry skills-gap throughout the United Kingdom clocks in at over 26 percent, as reported by a recent e-Skills survey. Put directly, we can't properly place more than three out of each 4 job positions in the computer industry. Highly qualified and commercially certified new staff are correspondingly at a total premium, and it looks like they will be for much longer. Without a doubt, it really is such a perfect time for retraining into the IT industry.

A study programme has to build towards a nationally accepted qualification as an end-result - and not a worthless 'in-house' printed certificate to hang in your hallway. From an employer's perspective, only the big-boys like Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco or Adobe (for instance) will make the right impression. Anything less just doesn't cut the mustard.

One thing you must always insist on is full 24x7 support with professional mentors and instructors. It's an all too common story to find providers that only seem to want to help while they're in the office (9am till 6pm, Monday till Friday usually) and nothing at the weekends. Don't accept training that only supports students via a call-centre messaging service after 6-9pm in the evening and during weekends. Training companies will always try to hide the importance of this issue. The simple fact of the matter is - you want to be supported when you need the help - not at their convenience.

We recommend that you search for providers that utilise many support facilities active in different time-zones. Each one should be integrated to provide a single interface as well as access round-the-clock, when it suits you, without any problems. Always pick an educator that goes the extra mile. Because only 24x7 round-the-clock live support truly delivers for technical programs.

We're often asked why academic qualifications are being replaced by more commercial qualifications? With an ever-increasing technical demand on resources, the IT sector has been required to move to the specialised core-skills learning only available through the vendors themselves - namely companies such as CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA. This frequently provides reductions in both cost and time. Higher education courses, for instance, can often get caught up in vast amounts of background study - with a syllabus that's far too wide. Students are then held back from learning the core essentials in sufficient depth.

Imagine if you were an employer - and you needed to take on someone with a very particular skill-set. What should you do: Wade your way through reams of different degrees and college qualifications from various applicants, trying to establish what they know and what workplace skills they've acquired, or select a specialised number of commercial certifications that specifically match what you're looking for, and then select who you want to interview from that. You can then focus on how someone will fit into the team at interview - rather than establishing whether they can do a specific task.

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