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Cisco training is intended for individuals who wish to understand and work with routers and switches. Routers connect computer networks over the internet or lines dedicated for that purpose. The chances are that your first course should be your CCNA. Steer clear of going immediately onto your CCNP because it is very complex - and you need to work up to it to take on this level.
Because routers are linked to networks, it’s necessary to know how networks work, or you will have difficulties with the training and be unable to understand the work. Look for a course that features the basics on networks (such as CompTIA) before you get going on CCNA.
If you haven’t yet had any experience of routers, then studying up to CCNA is more than enough - avoid being talked into doing a CCNP. Once you’ve worked for a few years, you will have a feel for if this next level is for you.
How can job security truly exist anywhere now? In a marketplace like the UK, with businesses changing their mind on a whim, there doesn’t seem much chance. In actuality, security now only emerges via a quickly growing market, driven forward by a shortage of trained workers. This shortage creates just the right background for market-security - a more attractive situation all round.
The most recent national e-Skills investigation brought to light that over 26 percent of IT jobs cannot be filled mainly due to a chronic shortage of properly qualified workers. Therefore, for every 4 jobs that are available across IT, businesses are only able to locate properly accredited workers for 3 of them. Properly trained and commercially accredited new staff are as a result at a total premium, and it’s estimated to remain so for many years longer. We can’t imagine if a better time or market state of affairs could exist for gaining qualification for this hugely expanding and blossoming business.
Making the most appropriate career development option is hard enough - so where do we need to look and what kind of questions should we ask?
Starting from the idea that it makes sense to find the employment that excites us first and foremost, before we’re even able to consider what training course would meet that requirement, how do we know the correct route? How can most of us possibly understand the day-to-day realities of any IT job when we haven’t done that before? Often we don’t know someone who is in that area at all. To get through to the essence of this, there should be a discussion of many definitive areas:
* Your hobbies and interests - these can define what areas will give you the most reward.
* Why you want to consider getting involved with the IT industry - it could be you’re looking to achieve some personal goal such as self-employment for example.
* Is your income higher on your priority-list than other factors.
* With everything that IT encompasses, it’s important to be able to take in the differences.
* You’ll also need to think hard about the level of commitment you’re going to give to the accreditation program.
To completely side-step all the jargon and confusion, and find what’ll really work for you, have a good talk with an industry expert and advisor; someone who can impart the commercial reality whilst covering all the qualifications.
Of all the important things to consider, one of the most essential is always proper direct-access 24×7 support from expert mentors and instructors. So many companies we come across only provide office hours (or extended office hours) support. Avoid, like the plague, any organisations which use call-centres ‘out-of-hours’ - where an advisor will call back during standard office hours. This is useless when you’re stuck and could do with an answer during your scheduled study period.
Keep your eyes open for colleges that utilise many support facilities active in different time-zones. Each one should be integrated to enable simple one-stop access together with round-the-clock access, when you want it, with the minimum of hassle. Never ever take second best where support is concerned. The vast majority of would-be IT professionals who drop-out or fail, are in that situation because of a lack of support.
The old fashioned style of teaching, involving piles of reference textbooks, can be pretty hard going sometimes. If you’re nodding as you read this, look for learning programmes which have a majority of interactive, multimedia parts. Studies have repeatedly shown that becoming involved with our studies, to utilise all our senses, is far more likely to produce long-lasting memories.
Top of the range study programs now offer interactive CD and DVD ROM’s. By watching and listening to instructors on video tutorials you’ll absorb the modules, one by one, by way of the expert demonstrations. You can then test yourself by interacting with the software and practicing yourself. It’s very important to see some example materials from the company you’re considering. Be sure that they contain full motion videos of instructors demonstrating the topic with lab’s to practice the skills in.
It’s usually bad advice to go for purely on-line training. With highly variable reliability and quality from most broadband providers, it makes sense to have disc based courseware (On CD or DVD).
Qualifications from the commercial sector are now, without a doubt, taking over from the traditional routes into IT - so why is this the case? The IT sector is now aware that to learn the appropriate commercial skills, certified accreditation from companies such as Microsoft, CISCO, Adobe and CompTIA often is more effective in the commercial field - at a far reduced cost both money and time wise. In essence, students are simply taught the necessary specifics in depth. It’s not quite as straightforward as that, but the principle objective is to master the precisely demanded skill-sets (with some necessary background) - without attempting to cover a bit about every other area (as academia often does).
Think about if you were the employer - and you wanted someone who could provide a specific set of skills. What is easier: Pore through reams of different degrees and college qualifications from several applicants, having to ask what each has covered and what vocational skills they have, or choose a specific set of accreditations that specifically match what you’re looking for, and draw up from that who you want to speak to. Your interviews are then about personal suitability - rather than on the depth of their technical knowledge.
The right sort of package of training will undoubtedly have wholly authorised exam simulation and preparation packages. Some students can get thrown by practicing questions for their exams that are not from the authorised examining boards. It’s not uncommon that the way questions are phrased can be completely unlike un-authorised versions and it’s important to prepare yourself for this. Clearly, it’s very important to know that you’ve thoroughly prepared for your final certified exam before taking it. Practicing simulated exams logs the information in your brain and will avoid you getting frustrated with wasted exam attempts.
Many trainers have a handy Job Placement Assistance service, to assist your search for your first position. Because of the great skills shortage in the UK right now, there isn’t a great need to become overly impressed with this service however. It really won’t be that difficult to find your first job once you’re properly qualified.
Help and assistance with preparing a CV and getting interviews may be available (if it isn’t, consult one of our sites). Ensure you bring your CV right up to date today - not when you’re ready to start work! Many junior support jobs have been offered to trainees who’re still on their course and haven’t even passed a single exam yet. At least this will get you on your way. The most efficient companies to help you land that job are normally specialised and independent recruitment consultants. Because they only get paid when they place you, they have the necessary incentive to try that bit harder.
To bottom line it, as long as you put the same commitment into getting a position as into studying, you’re not going to hit many challenges. Some trainees inexplicably spend hundreds of hours on their learning program and then call a halt once they’ve got certified and appear to be under the impression that jobs will come to them.
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I own “Sunday School Musical”, and while it is far from perfect, it does contain a legitimate discernible Christian message and virtually no questionable content. Now that alone, its giving a real alternative for 90 minutes to the New Age/secular humanist/occultish junk filled with rebellious content and packed with sexuality (including an increasing amount of homosexuality) on Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network by its very existence makes it worthwhile.
For all its flaws - which I will not recount here as you have already done an excellent job of enumerating its faults - Sunday School Musical is a product that prominently depicts and promotes worshiping Jesus Christ, studying the Bible, fellowshipping with other Christians, and turning to God and following Biblical principles in times of trouble and conflict.
If you think that things like this should be done better, why not get involved in it yourself? Take a couple of screenwriting courses and produce a script. Learn Adobe flash animation (or cinematography with digital cameras) and also how to do sound and editing. Many community colleges, vocational/trade schools, and online courses offer these, and you would know all you need to know in order to get your own project off the ground in 18 months; more than Phil Vischer did when he started VeggieTales, and not much less than the Kendrick brothers did when they produced “Flywheel” (the predecessor to “Facing the Giants” and “Fireproof.”) After that, seek funding and workers for your project from church groups, local small time theater and film school types, and arts councils (the Arts Alliance America assisted with Sunday School Musical) and then either seek a distribution channel, or distribute it yourself over the Internet (which is what Phil Vischer, having lost his Big Idea company and not seeing a future in the declining Christian direct video market, is now doing).
But hey, who wants to spend the next 2-4 years of their lives putting in all that hard work and taking that great financial risk (as even if you succeed in getting your project into Christian bookstores and carried by Christian catalogs, there is a great chance that it will wind up ignored, first in the 99 cent clearance bin and then shipped back to the manufacturer, which is what happens to the vast majority of such endeavors)? Nah, it is much easier to spend 30 minutes criticizing people who actually have put in the work, learned the skills, and taken the personal risks required to put out something that may actually help - or at least won’t harm - kids and young adults.
Seriously, the average Christian only needs a personal computer, a little inexpensive software and hardware, and a few hours of “free online tutorial” type of self - training in order to be able to create little 10 minute videos that can teach kids - and those slightly older than kids - about Jesus Christ for their Youtube channel in their spare time. Yet virtually none of us are doing it. The world is more motivated to put in the time and effort to do evil than Christians are to produce good. That is the real problem, not the existence of “Sunday School Musical.”
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There is an easy answer to your question. No online colleges are good.
The majority of online colleges are For Profit corporations with no admissions standards. Employers do not respect their degrees, and their graduates who can find jobs make thousands a year less than those who go to real schools.
Your local public university is cheaper, more respected — and probably offers a number of classes online.
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(i) For what sort of courses are online lectures, in theory, a perfect substitute? The most basic ones, where any idiot can write a good, clear, comprehensive lecture, and any idiot can understand it… Ec 101, broad History and Literature surveys, Precal, etc. What sort of person’s college experience is most likely to consist entirely of large, broad introductory courses of this type? Someone who isn’t especially enthralled by the material, who has inadequate background preparation, etc. How likely is this sorty person to be able to take advantage of free, online lectures without any assistance when he gets confused or pressure to continue when he gets discouraged? Not very. (Conversely the people most likely to benefit from free online courses [as from books, as from education movies and radio programs] are the people least likely to spend most of their educations in large lecture courses.)
(ii) Colleges do not suffer from the "lump of knowledge fallacy," for obvious reasons. When my grandmother majored in math before WWII, she learned upper-level algebra and geometry, pre-calculus, and calculus. When cheap, powerful calculators made it possible to begin teaching algebra to 10 year-olds, pretty soon people could learn all that before they graduated high-school. So did colleges fire all the math instructors and close down the math major? No: math majors know much more when they graduate, nowadays.
(iii) Most students, even at mid-tier universities, cannot communicate their thoughts in writing, and have a great deal of trouble quickly grasping the ideas in a passage that they’ve read. Will online lecture courses make people better readers and writers?
(iv)I’m skeptical of the claim that lecture courses, in general, are cash cows. The problem is that in a lecture course you are typically paying a TA for every ~20 students. Assuming TAs are paid half what lecturers are paid, you need at least 60 students for a lecture course to be more "profitable" than a 20-student seminar. And as most colleges will gleefully point out, a relatively small number of courses have more than 60 students.
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Hi Dot - The hard sell, I believe, arises out of desperation and focus on (needing) the money. It’s epitomized in the video - that’s all Baldwin’s character is about. The result is the depersonalization, and most people instinctively shrink or are repulsed. The buyer wants to feel in control of the situation, as you rightly say. While online shopping/browsing is fun and I love it, the human element that a good sales professional provides has helped me in the past. Personal shoppers used to be a big thing. Nordstrom, among other stores, still emphasizes this and encourages its salespeople to develop clientele. It sure makes you feel special, I know that. Sometimes rudeness or bluntness is the only thing that will deter a desperado though. It makes me want to speak to the manager every time, but I rarely do because I get tired of the “duh deer in the headlights” when I point out other techniques might be more effective. Thanks.
Hi Jessica - I saw you in action - I don’t think you know this - when I came into the store to buy shoes one time, and I was impressed. You clearly were very knowledgeable about your inventory and made great suggestions to your customer. In a rather impersonal store, like the one you worked at, that type of interaction stands out.
Yes, the science/psychology of sales is fascinating. People like Brian Tracy have made a fortune sharing their findings with folks who are eager to learn and apply/improve. I believe all marketing and business departments in colleges should require course work in this. Thanks.
Hi Davina - I often hear “I’m not a salesperson.” People are very uncomfortable with being perceived as something they view in a negative way. People are also intimidated by the process - not wanting an uncomfortable quid pro quo or other expectation to denigrate their attempts to build a relationship.
Yet, time and time again, I would see the same people naturally and confidently develop a strong relationship and convert buyers as part of their business activities. It happened when they forgot they were supposed to sell something, and their warmth and enthusiasm for their product or service translated into being helpful to the customer.
I see you as a natural, Davina. You sell yourself with every blog post. The impression your customers/readers get is someone who is authentic, warm, perceptive and wise. Who wouldn’t want to do business with you? You’re a born salesperson and you don’t even realize it! This is a very, very good thing. Thanks.
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Some of them are legitimate–others aren't. The best online programs are offered by traditional universities–although many of them do require some actual physical classroom presence, others do not. The University of Phoenix is accredited–although its mediocre in terms of academic quality.
In all honesty–you will be better off–and probably it will be cheaper–to go to a good publicuniversity in your state. If you need to, you can start at a local community college–the credits will transfer. Also bear in mind a degree in education requires student teaching–and you will have better contacts through a local university to do this. If your local university offers some courses online (many do now) that's fine–but trying to do the whole thing online is not a good idea.
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