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A career in IT? Part 2: courses
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Working in IT
Big companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle also offer specialist IT qualifications in networks, databases etc. Employers do value them but the courses are expensive and generally paid for by companies. If specialist skills would be useful to you but you're not in a position where an employer will foot the bill, consider teaching yourself from books - ideally borrow the textbooks from someone who has done the course.
Getting a job in IT doesn't always require a degree or expensive specialist training (see the link below for a low-down on jobs in the industry). For a trainee job in operations or support, for example, you just need general computing skills. Any of the qualifications mentioned here will help to demonstrate your skills and interest, but potential employers will also give aptitude tests to see if you have what it takes. In the Careers Changers section of the IT Compass website you'll find a programming simulation that's similar to the sort of aptitude tests you could expect.
Read: Getting into IT, part one
Working in IT
Big companies like Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle also offer specialist IT qualifications in networks, databases etc. Employers do value them but the courses are expensive and generally paid for by companies. If specialist skills would be useful to you but you're not in a position where an employer will foot the bill, consider teaching yourself from books - ideally borrow the textbooks from someone who has done the course.
Getting a job in IT doesn't always require a degree or expensive specialist training (see the link below for a low-down on jobs in the industry). For a trainee job in operations or support, for example, you just need general computing skills. Any of the qualifications mentioned here will help to demonstrate your skills and interest, but potential employers will also give aptitude tests to see if you have what it takes. In the Careers Changers section of the IT Compass website you'll find a programming simulation that's similar to the sort of aptitude tests you could expect.
Read: Getting into IT, part one
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Created: 19/02/2004 Updated: 19/01/2007
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