Four separate areas of study make up a full CompTIA A+; you're seen as an achiever in A+ when you've gained exams for half of them. For this reason, it's usual for colleges to only have two of the courses on their syllabus. The truth is to carry out a job effectively, you'll need the teaching in all areas as industry will require the skills and knowledge of the entire course. Don't feel pressured to pass exams in all of them, however we'd advise that you study for all four areas.
Alongside being taught how to build PC's and fix them, students on an A+ training course will be taught how to operate in antistatic conditions, how to fault find, to diagnose and to remotely access problems. You may also want to think about doing Network+ as it will enable you to take care of computer networks, which is where the bigger salaries are.
Many training companies supply a practical Job Placement Assistance service, to help you into your first commercial role. However sometimes there is more emphasis than is necessary on this service, as it is actually not that hard for well qualified and focused men and women to find a job in the IT environment - because there's a great need for well trained people.
Update your CV at the beginning of your training though - you should get plenty of help from your training provider on this. Don't procrastinate and leave it until you've graduated or passed any exams. It's not uncommon to find that junior support jobs have been bagged by students who are still studying and haven't got any qualifications yet. This will at the very least get you into the 'maybe' pile of CV's - rather than the 'No' pile. The most efficient companies to get you a new position are normally local IT focused employment agencies. As they will get paid by the employer when they've placed you, they have more incentive to get on with it.
A constant grievance for a number of training companies is how hard trainees are focused on studying to get qualified, but how ill-prepared they are to market themselves for the position they have qualified for. Don't falter at the last fence.
When was the last time you considered your job security? For the majority of us, we only think of this after we experience a knock-back. But really, the reality is that our job security simply doesn't exist anymore, for most of us. We're able though to discover security at the market sector level, by searching for areas in high demand, together with shortages of trained staff.
A recent UK e-Skills study demonstrated that twenty six percent of IT jobs remain unfilled as an upshot of an appallingly low number of well-trained staff. Basically, we're only able to fill 3 out of every four jobs in the computing industry. Properly trained and commercially educated new professionals are consequently at a total premium, and it looks like they will be for many years longer. Because the IT sector is growing at such a quick pace, there really isn't any other area of industry worth looking at for your new career.
It's quite a normal occurrence for students not to check on something that can make a profound difference to their results - the way their training provider breaks up the physical training materials, and into how many bits. The majority of training companies will set up a 2 or 3 year study programme, and deliver each piece one-by-one as you complete each exam. This sounds reasonable until you consider the following: Sometimes the steps or stages pushed by the company's salespeople doesn't suit all of us. It may be difficult to get through every element at the speed required?
The ideal solution is to have every piece of your study pack packed off to your address right at the beginning; the entire thing! This prevents any future issues from rising that will affect your progress.
Please understand this most important point: You absolutely must have proper 24x7 support from professional instructors. We can tell you that you'll strongly regret it if you let this one slide. Try and find training with proper support available at all hours of the day and night (even 1am on Sunday morning!) Make sure it's always direct access to tutors, and not access to a call-in service which takes messages - so you're consistently being held in a queue for a call-back at a convenient time for them.
World-class organisations offer an online access 24 hours-a-day system pulling in several support offices across the globe. You're offered a simple environment that seamlessly accesses whichever office is appropriate at any time of day or night: Support on demand. Don't ever make the mistake of taking second best when it comes to your support. Many students that can't get going properly, are in that situation because of a lack of support.
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