IT Training

Welcome to my IT training advice website and blog. My name is Paul Johnson and I created this website to give people 'inside information' on how to improve their chances of getting a job in IT. As well as help those who may be stuck on the IT career ladder and are looking for other IT opportunities to enhance their IT career.

You see, by knowing someone on the inside, that is, someone who already works successfully in IT (which is me). You could find out what's HOT and what's NOT in the world of IT. This could end up saving you a lot of time, effort, money and more importantly stop you from being one of the many people, who end up following the wrong IT career paths.

If you're thinking what does this guy know about IT training anyway?

Well, I work in IT and have done so for nearly 15 years, with 10 years as a Senior Consultant and 5 years as a Solutions Architect. Starting out with no prior IT knowledge, I now earn a six figure sum each year. I've helped many people with little or no knowledge of IT, attain rewarding careers by pointing them in the right direction.

So you could end up getting, IT career advice straight from the horse's mouth!

I've seen many people fall for the hype around getting high paying IT jobs and end up with shattered dreams. With many stuck in dead end jobs and missing the IT boat completely. These people could have done so much by starting off on the right path, knowing the tricks to IT success and avoiding the pitfalls.

IT careers advice

The best IT career advice I can give is choose who to believe wisely, as choosing the wrong people to believe, can lead to disappointment. This is why it's imperative to choose the advice of someone who already works in IT, at a successful level.

I've included many pages of information in this website which can help you understand what the real world of IT is really like and hopefully this could help you immensely. Please visit the website regularly as I keep adding new information on a regular basis.

IT careers in demand will always provide the greatest opportunity, as generally these can push up the rates and salaries paid, as employers have little choice but to offer more money to attract candidates. Another benefit may be a lowering of entry requirements for candidates, whereby employers may take on those with less experience just to fill their job vacancies.

There are many IT career paths to avoid as these will only lead to disappointment, as they'll promise more than what they'll actually deliver. Early on in my career I nearly chose a PC Support job, which could have set my career back and made me lose out financially, but fortunately I decided against this job.

Searching for entry Level computer jobs or even your first computer job? There are many opportunities out there but they are disguised with many non-opportunities, which lead to nothing more than wasted time and money.

IT Training Companies

IT training companies vary greatly in what they can do for you. Some are unscrupulous and are only interested in taking your money, with little regard to really helping you attain the skills needed to succeed. These computer training companies use tricks such as IT Training suitability tests, IT Training suitability interviews and suitable courses for IT training.

Quality training providers can help accelerate careers but only if there is prior experience which can be built on. However the training itself can be very expensive. Watch out for the IT job salaries quoted by some of training companies, as they can be exaggerated.

Some rogue trainers have compulsory introduction & foundation IT Courses which must be completed before they allow students to do any of their courses. These introduction courses are complete rubbish and are solely designed to make these training companies even more money!

I've noticed a lot of training companies are involved in IT course overpricing, whereby they get a deal with a finance house (or bank) to provide finance for their course for their students. They use this finance opportunity to increase their course prices substantially to make even more profit. More training companies are becoming testing centres to make even more money by charging to do exams, which can become a gold mine for many.

IT Jobs

IT jobs can be difficult to find for those with little IT experience and the opportunities can be limited to IT Support jobs, which aren't necessarily the best jobs.

It's a pretty dire situation for graduates and I try to find out why are UK IT Graduates struggling to find opportunities? Programming can also be a difficult area and IT Programming jobs can be difficult to get.

I've recently been contacted by job finding services organisations which allegedly could find me a job in IT. I'm very sceptical about these services as there are strings attached.

IT Recruitment

IT recruitment agencies, are they complete idiots? Well, I'd have to agree that most of the agencies I've dealt with have had their fair number of idiots working there, who've complicated matters for me. Then there's the recruitment tricks these agencies use against those looking for work.

IT Contracting/Freelancing

IT contracting has been very good to me, as it's allowed me to earn a lot more than doing an equivalent salaried role, find out more about this form of working as a freelancer.

IT Interviews

IT Tech interviews ruined by techies, looks at the unsuccessful interviews I've had, which were ruined by Techies, who simply didn't know what interviewing is all about. I've also been privy to some pretty shocking IT tech interviews as well.

The right interview questions can catch out incompetent interview candidates, who are trying to blagg their way into IT roles.

IT Training News

Check out my Citrix training page, where I will provide more information on this lucrative technology which has made me a lot of money.

Are there any real free online IT training or free online computer training that's useful?

What about IT and computer courses, which ones are useful and how do you find out?

IT Certification

What is MCSE Certification? Is MCSE Certification, information overload? I had at one time considered doing the MCSE 2003 Training and had even looked at going to a MCSE Boot Camp, but decided against doing so.

IT Certification is not a backdoor to IT success and quality experience working in IT needs to be developed, to stand a higher chance of success.

Cisco certification offers plenty of options, find out what is on offer and whether it's appropriate.

Find out what my project management friends thinks of project management certification and what their plans are.

IT Articles

IT courses at college are rubbish! I think IT courses at Colleges only exist to create jobs for those who run them and the poor students gain little benefit!

A colleague was considering one of the IT degree courses, find out what I really think and whether it's worthwhile or just a waste of time.

Why do the unemployed get so many decent training options and more chances for work placements than those trying to change careers to IT.

Watch out for the hoax IT jobs where you attend an interview, solely designed to get information out of you for free. There's never any intention of offering a job, in fact there is no real job at all.

It's quite easy to ace interviews, all you need to know is what to say, as this is what the interviewers are expecting to hear, so by tuning into their frequency, you could increase the chances of attaining the role being interviewed for.

Check out my computer training blogs, for the latest news and my latest views on IT and the world of computer training.

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