Anyone working in IT who can help me?
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I'm looking to re-train for a career in IT. I'm coming into it with no IT experience whatsoever and I have been recommended to complete a CompTIA A+ course and then an MCSA either in Server 2012 or SQL. The courses will cost over £1k though so i need to be 100% sure that it will be worth spending the money and taking the 6 months or so to complete.
Are these courses worth doing and more importantly what sort of jobs and salary can i expect on the other side.
Thanks,
Are these courses worth doing and more importantly what sort of jobs and salary can i expect on the other side.
Thanks,
I'm looking to re-train for a career in IT. I'm coming into it with no IT experience whatsoever and I have been recommended to complete a CompTIA A+ course and then an MCSA either in Server 2012 or SQL. The courses will cost over £1k though so i need to be 100% sure that it will be worth spending the money and taking the 6 months or so to complete.
Are these courses worth doing and more importantly what sort of jobs and salary can i expect on the other side.
Thanks,
Are these courses worth doing and more importantly what sort of jobs and salary can i expect on the other side.
Thanks,
Thanks, I'll post this topic in the employment forum as well.
This is my big worry as I will have to invest alot of money into these courses and i need to be sure that it's worth doing and i'm also painfully aware that experience counts for alot more than skills and qualifications to lots of employers these days. I earn £27k in my current job but if i stayed there another 20 years I would still be earning the same money while IT seems to have alot more scope for improvement. Just cant afford to take too much of a drop after qualification!
This is my big worry as I will have to invest alot of money into these courses and i need to be sure that it's worth doing and i'm also painfully aware that experience counts for alot more than skills and qualifications to lots of employers these days. I earn £27k in my current job but if i stayed there another 20 years I would still be earning the same money while IT seems to have alot more scope for improvement. Just cant afford to take too much of a drop after qualification!
My current job is at an airport in an operations role. Mostly procedural task like marshalling aircraft, runway inspections. I have customer service experience from this and previous roles but other than that not Alot of transferable skills and experience. This one of the main reasons for looking at these courses. In terms of experience of computers at the moment it's only been desktop user stuff really. I could afford to take abit of pay cut but not much less than £23k really due to mortgage, etc.
Thank you everyone for your feedback I really don't know what I should go for at this point.
Thank you everyone for your feedback I really don't know what I should go for at this point.
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