Well Done! As you're looking at this it's likely you're thinking about learning new skills to change career - so already you've made a start. Less of us than you'd think are happy and fulfilled in our work, but it's rare anyone does more than moan. Why not be one of a small number who decide to make the change.

For those thinking of re-training, it's essential that you first make a list of what you DO want and DON'T want from the job you're looking to get into. Be sure that you would be more satisfied before much time and effort is spent altering your life's plans. We recommend looking at the destination you're hoping for, to make an informed decision:

* Do you hope for interaction with others? If so, do you like working with the same people or are you hoping to meet new people? Or are you better working in isolation?

* Have you given much thought to which industry you choose to work in? (These days, it's even more crucial to get it right.)

* Is this the final time you want to study, and if it is, will your chosen career path give you scope to do that?

* Would you like the course you're re-training in to be in a market sector where as far as you can see your chances of gainful employment are high up to the time you want to stop?

It would be an idea for you to have a good look at Information Technology - there are a larger number of positions than staff to fill them, because it's one of the few choices of career where the market sector is on the grow. In contrast to what some people would have you think, IT is not full of nerdy individuals looking at screens every day (if you like the sound of that though, they do exist.) The majority of jobs are occupied by ordinary men and women who enjoy a very nice lifestyle due to better than average wages.

Quite often, students have issues with a single courseware aspect very rarely considered: The way the training is divided into chunks and packaged off through the post. Trainees may consider it sensible (with a typical time scale of 1-3 years to gain full certified status,) that a training provider will issue one section at a time, until you've passed all the exams. But: What if you find the order prescribed by the provider doesn't suit you. It may be difficult to get through each and every section inside their defined time-scales?

In a perfect world, you'd get ALL the training materials right at the beginning - so you'll have them all for the future to come back to - irrespective of any schedule. Variations can then be made to the order that you attack each section if another more intuitive route presents itself.

Searching for your first position in IT can be a little easier with the help of a Job Placement Assistance service. Don't get caught up in this feature - it's quite easy for training companies to make it sound harder than it is. In reality, the huge shortage of staff in Britain is why employers will be interested in you.

However, what is relevant is to have help with your CV and interview techniques though; and we'd encourage everyone to work on polishing up their CV right at the beginning of their training - don't delay until you've graduated or passed any exams. It's not unusual to find that you will get your first role whilst you're still studying (sometimes when you've only just got going). If your course details aren't on your CV - or it's not getting in front of interviewers, then you aren't even in the running! In many cases, a specialist independent regional employment agency - who make their money when they've found you a job - will be more pro-active than a centralised training company's service. Also of course they should know the area and local employers better.

Fundamentally, if you put the same amount of effort into finding your first IT position as into studying, you're not going to hit many challenges. Some trainees curiously invest a great deal of time on their learning program and then just stop once qualified and appear to be under the impression that jobs will come to them.

How long has it been since you considered your job security? For most of us, this issue only becomes a talking point when something dramatic happens to shake us. But really, the lesson often learned too late is that our job security is a thing of the past, for the vast majority of people. Where there are rising skills shortages coupled with areas of high demand though, we almost always locate a newer brand of market-security; driven by a continual growth, companies are struggling to hire the number of people required.

Looking at the computer market, a recent e-Skills investigation showed an over 26 percent deficit in trained staff. Or, to put it differently, this reveals that the United Kingdom only has three properly accredited workers for every four jobs in existence today. This basic idea reveals the validity and need for more commercially accredited Information Technology professionals throughout Great Britain. We can't imagine if a better time or market state of affairs is ever likely to exist for getting certified in this rapidly expanding and developing business.

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