A useful feature that many training companies provide is a programme of Job Placement assistance. It's intention is to assist your search for your first position. Often, this feature is bigged up too much, as it is genuinely quite straightforward for any focused and well taught person to find a job in the IT industry - as employers are keen to find appropriately well trained people.

Ideally you should have help and assistance with preparing a CV and getting interviews though; and we'd encourage any student to bring their CV up to date the day they start training - don't wait till you've finished your exams. Getting onto the 'maybe' pile of CV's is more than not being regarded at all. A decent number of junior support roles are bagged by trainees (sometimes when they've only just got going.) If it's important to you to find work near your home, then you may well find that an independent and specialised local employment service might be of more use than the trainer's recruitment division, for they're far more likely to be familiar with the local job scene.

Various people, it would appear, spend evenings and weekends on their training and studies (sometimes for years), only to do nothing special when finding a job. Promote yourself... Work hard to let employers know about you. Good jobs don't just knock on your door.

Traditional teaching in classrooms, using textbooks and whiteboards, is usually pretty hard going. If this sounds like you, find training programs that are on-screen and interactive. Research over recent years has repeatedly confirmed that an 'involved' approach to study, where we utilise all our senses, is far more likely to produce long-lasting memories.

Search for a course where you'll receive a library of CD and DVD ROM's - you'll be learning from instructor videos and demo's, with the facility to hone your abilities through virtual lab's. You'll definitely want a look at some courseware examples from the school that you're considering. You'll want to see expert-led demonstrations, slideshows and virtual practice lab's for your new skills.

Select actual CD or DVD ROM's if possible. This then avoids all the potential pitfalls with broadband 'downtime' or slow-speeds.

Most of us would love to think that our jobs are safe and our work futures are protected, but the growing likelihood for most sectors in the United Kingdom right now is that there is no security anymore. Whereas a quickly growing market-place, where staff are in constant demand (through a growing shortfall of fully trained workers), opens the possibility of true job security.

Taking a look at the Information Technology (IT) market, the 2006 e-Skills investigation brought to light a more than 26 percent skills deficit. That means for every four jobs that exist throughout Information Technology (IT), there are only 3 trained people to do them. This one reality in itself reveals why the UK requires so many more new trainees to become part of the IT industry. It's unlikely if a better time or market conditions will exist for gaining qualification for this quickly emerging and budding market.

You have to make sure that all your certifications are current and commercially required - don't even consider studies that only give in-house certificates. All the major IT organisations like Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe or CompTIA all have nationally acknowledged proficiency courses. These heavyweights will give some sparkle to your CV.

Doing your bit in revolutionary new technology is as thrilling as it comes. You're involved with creating a future for us all. There are people who believe that the increase in technology we have experienced is lowering its pace. This couldn't be more wrong. Terrific advances are ahead of us, and the internet particularly will become an increasingly dominant part of our lives.

If making decent money is around the top on your goal sheet, then you'll welcome the news that the usual remuneration for the majority of IT staff is considerably greater than with much of the rest of industry. Experts agree that there's a significant country-wide requirement for trained and qualified IT technicians. Also, with the constant growth in the marketplace, it is likely there will be for the significant future.

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