The CCNA is where it all starts for Cisco training. This teaches you how to operate on the maintenance and installation of network switches and routers. The internet is made up of many routers, and many large organisations that have a number of branches use them to allow their networks of computers to communicate.
You may end up employed by an internet service provider or a large commercial venture which is spread out geographically but still wants internal communication. Both types of jobs command good salaries.
We’d recommend a specially designed course that covers everything you need to know in advance of getting going on the Cisco CCNA.
A question; why should we consider qualifications from the commercial sector and not more traditional academic qualifications taught at schools and Further Education colleges?
With university education costs spiralling out of control, together with the industry’s general opinion that key company training is often far more commercially relevant, we have seen a great increase in Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA accredited training programmes that create knowledgeable employees at a much reduced cost in terms of money and time.
University courses, for example, become confusing because of too much loosely associated study – and much too wide a syllabus. Students are then prevented from getting enough core and in-depth understanding on a specific area.
Think about if you were the employer – and you needed to take on someone with a very particular skill-set. What’s the simplest way to find the right person: Wade your way through a mass of different academic qualifications from hopeful applicants, having to ask what each has covered and which vocational skills they have, or choose a specific set of accreditations that exactly fulfil your criteria, and draw up from that who you want to speak to. The interview is then more about the person and how they’ll fit in – rather than on the depth of their technical knowledge.
We can’t make a big enough deal out of this point: It’s essential to obtain proper 24×7 round-the-clock professional support from mentors and instructors. You’ll definitely experience problems if you don’t.
Email support is too slow, and so-called telephone support is normally just routed to a call-centre who will take the information and email an instructor – who’ll call back sometime over the next 1-3 days, when it suits them. This isn’t a lot of good if you’re stuck with a particular problem and have a one hour time-slot in which to study.
The very best training providers have many support offices from around the world. Online access provides the interactive interface to seamlessly link them all together, at any time you choose, help is at hand, without any problems or delays.
Don’t under any circumstances take less than you need and deserve. Support round-the-clock is the only kind that ever makes the grade with IT training. Perhaps you don’t intend to study during the evenings; often though, we’re out at work while the support is live.
Considering how a program is ‘delivered’ to you is often missed by many students. How many parts is the training broken down into? What is the specific order and what control do you have at what pace it arrives?
Often, you’ll enrol on a course staged over 2 or 3 years and get posted one section at a time – from one exam to the next. It seems to make sense on one level, but consider these issues:
How would they react if you didn’t complete each and every exam at the required speed? Often the prescribed exam order won’t fit you as well as some other structure would for you.
Ideally, you’d ask for every single material to be delivered immediately – meaning you’ll have all of them to come back to at any time in the future – whenever it suits you. This also allows you to vary the order in which you move through the program if another more intuitive route presents itself.
Several companies supply a practical Job Placement Assistance program, to help you get your first job. In reality it’s not as difficult as you may be led to believe to get a job – assuming you’re well trained and qualified; employers in this country need your skills.
Ideally you should have advice and support about your CV and interviews though; and we’d recommend everybody to work on polishing up their CV as soon as training commences – don’t wait for when you’re ready to start work.
Various junior support roles have been offered to trainees who are still studying and haven’t got any qualifications yet. This will at least get you on your way.
If you’d like to keep travelling time and costs to a minimum, then you’ll often find that a specialist independent regional recruitment consultant or service might be more appropriate than the trainer’s recruitment division, because they are much more inclined to be familiar with the local job scene.
Please be sure that you don’t put hundreds of hours of effort into your studies, only to stop and leave it in the hands of the gods to find you a job. Take responsibility for yourself and get out there. Channel as much energy and enthusiasm into landing your first job as you did to get trained.
(C) Scott Edwards 2009. Go to Click HERE or Cisco Training.
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