There are two specialist areas of training in a full CompTIA A+ program; you're considered competent at A+ when you've passed the test for both specialist areas. Passing the A+ exam in isolation will set you up to mend and maintain stand-alone PC's and MAC's; ones which are usually not part of a network - this generally applies to home use and small companies. If you add Network+ training to your A+, you will additionally be able to assist with or manage networks of computers, which means you'll be able to expect a better remuneration package.

So many training providers are all about the certification, and forget what you actually need - getting yourself a new job or career. Your focus should start with where you want to get to - don't make the vehicle more important than the destination. It's quite usual, in many cases, to find immense satisfaction in a year of study only to end up putting 20 long years into something completely unrewarding, as a consequence of not performing the correct level of soul-searching when it was needed - at the start.

You also need to know how you feel about career progression and earning potential, plus your level of ambition. It's vital to know what the role will demand of you, which particular certifications they want you to have and where you'll pick-up experience from. Our recommendation would be to seek advice from an experienced industry advisor before settling on some particular learning path, so there's little doubt that the chosen route will give you the skill-set required for your career choice.

A lot of men and women assume that the traditional school, college or university system is still the most effective. Why then are qualifications from the commercial sector beginning to overtake it? Industry now acknowledges that to cover the necessary commercial skill-sets, the right accreditation from such organisations as Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA often is more effective in the commercial field - and a fraction of the cost and time. This is done by honing in on the actual skills required (along with a proportionate degree of background knowledge,) as opposed to trawling through all the background 'extras' that degree courses can get bogged down in - to fill a three or four year course.

Think about if you were the employer - and you wanted someone who could provide a specific set of skills. What should you do: Go through loads of academic qualifications from graduate applicants, having to ask what each has covered and which trade skills they have, or select a specialised number of commercial certifications that specifically match what you're looking for, and then select who you want to interview from that. You can then focus on how someone will fit into the team at interview - rather than establishing whether they can do a specific task.

It would be wonderful to believe that our jobs are secure and the future is protected, but the likely scenario for most jobs throughout the United Kingdom right now seems to be that security just isn't there anymore. It's possible though to reveal security at the market sector level, by looking for areas of high demand, mixed with a lack of qualified workers.

With the Information Technology (IT) business as an example, a recent e-Skills analysis highlighted massive skills shortages throughout Great Britain of around 26 percent. That means for each four job positions that are available across Information Technology (IT), there are only 3 trained people to do them. This single reality in itself underpins why the UK needs a lot more new trainees to become part of the IT industry. As the Information Technology market is developing at the speed it is, could there honestly be a better area of industry worth taking into account for a new future.

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