The sometimes daunting task of landing your first IT job is often relieved because some trainers offer a Job Placement Assistance programme. Ultimately it's not as difficult as you may be led to believe to find your first job - as long as you're correctly trained and certified; the shortage of IT personnel in Britain looks after that.

Work on polishing up your CV right away however - you should get plenty of help from your training provider on this. Don't procrastinate and leave it for when you're ready to start work. A good number of junior support jobs are offered to trainees who are still studying and haven't even passed a single exam yet. This will at least get your CV into the 'possible' pile and not the 'no' pile. Most often, an independent and specialised local recruitment consultancy (who will, of course, be keen to place you to receive their commission) should get better results than any recruitment division from a training organisation. They should, of course, also know the local area and commercial needs.

Not inconsiderable numbers of men and women, apparently, invest a great deal of time on their training course (for years sometimes), and then just stop instead of finding a good job. Sell yourself... Make an effort to get yourself known. Good jobs don't just knock on your door.

Many people question why qualifications from colleges and universities are now falling behind more qualifications from the commercial sector? As demand increases for knowledge about more and more complex technology, industry has moved to specialist courses that can only be obtained from the actual vendors - that is companies such as Microsoft, CISCO, Adobe and CompTIA. This frequently provides reductions in both cost and time. Higher education courses, for instance, clog up the training with vast amounts of background study - and a syllabus that's too generalised. Students are then held back from understanding the specific essentials in enough depth.

Just as the old advertisement said: 'It does what it says on the label'. All an employer has to do is know what areas need to be serviced, and then advertise for someone with the specific certification. They'll know then that all applicants can do what they need.

Discovering job security nowadays is problematic. Businesses can throw us from the workplace at the drop of a hat - whenever it suits. We're able though to discover market-level security, by probing for areas of high demand, mixed with shortages of trained staff.

Offering the computing industry for example, the last e-Skills survey highlighted a national skills shortage around the UK around the 26 percent mark. To explain it in a different way, this means that the country only has three properly accredited workers for each 4 job positions available today. This one reality alone reveals why Great Britain desperately needs so many more new trainees to join the IT sector. No better time or market state of affairs will exist for acquiring training in this rapidly growing and budding market.

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