Computer Networking Courses

The phrase 'Computer Networking Courses' covers many training options, skill sets and job opportunities.

It's likely that if you're researching this subject for career progression, you could use our help to sort out which area of expertise is best for you. We can look at the sort of networking job you're considering, discuss what it entails, and cover any other related options.

This will give you enough information to decide what you really want to do. We can then advise you on the most appropriate course of computer training to achieve your goal, with a start level based on your current networking skills.

THE TRUTH ABOUT TRAINING COMPANIES...

It's important to be aware of what to look for in a training provider. Once armed with this information you can do your research and make the right choice.

After many years of experience working with other computer training companies, the LearningLolly team were determined to get the basics right for every student.

Indeed, it was because of our dissatisfaction with the actual courses and support provided elsewhere, that we first decided to start LearningLolly.

Reasonably-Priced Interactive Computer Networking Courses

The quality of training materials varies hugely from company to company.

Some are still using out of date materials, as it's a costly exercise keeping up to date with Microsoft changes. Others use old-style, high overhead training methods where students predominantly learn from un-inspiring training manuals, backed up with a few discs and classroom-based teaching.

This means for students to complete their computer courses, they're expected to travel to a training centre several times. With the cost of petrol and accommodation today, that can easily amount to several hundreds of pounds or more on top of the cost of the course. College attendance is required by these companies because their training materials and support alone aren't good enough. The high running costs of such colleges have to be passed on to their students, so they claim colleges have credibility in order to justify charging hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds more. With modern interactive training and proper 24x7 support, there's no longer any need for in-centre attendance!

So what do we mean by proper support? For most students, training has to be fitted into an already busy work schedule. This means study time will usually be outside of office hours and trainees want to get stuck in with no hold-ups. We therefore think it's essential to give our students access to a team of expert tutors who are available to help any time of day or night, there and then - so momentum isn't lost. Nothing less will do!

The reality with other colleges is often very different. Their so called '24x7 support' usually means catching a tutor during office hours between lectures, and leaving a message out of hours for someone to call you back (in office hours), sometimes two to three days later.

At LearningLolly, our students are looked after on computer networking courses. Find out more about how we can help you by clicking for an info pack...

Frankly Speaking... thoughts for the day!

Are You A Square Peg In A Round Hole?

Are you a square peg in a round hole? It's scary to think just how many of us are in jobs today that we don't enjoy and never really meant to get into. Perhaps we need to ask ourselves why this is - did we just idly drift into the first thing that came along, or did we trust the advice given to us by professionals who knew best?

If the current mayhem in the financial markets has taught us anything, surely it's that professionals don't always know what's right for us. Senior bankers have been happily lending round loans to square borrowers, and we didn't question it because we collectively assumed that people in authority know what's best for us. It's time to call a halt and say "enough is enough." Let's get back to personal responsibility and making decisions for ourselves.

According to the Daily Mail, we're an unhappy bunch in the workplace. Co-worker relations seem to give us the most grief, with 8% of workers dreading the daily grind because they can't stand colleagues; 31% quitting a job because of co-worker disharmony, and almost 2/3rds berating their colleagues' performance. Could this be because so few of us have really thought about what we want in a job before launching headlong into the wrong career? With redundancies likely to go into overdrive, the next twelve months could be a great time to really think about going from making a living, to building a life.

Imagine you're creating a recipe for your ideal working life. What ingredients will go into it, and what will you definitely leave out to avoid a bitter after-taste?

Having designed your dream job, which industry in the real world will be the right shape and size for an exact fit? It may come as a surprise to find that more and more people are finding jobs in Information Technology fit them better than most. No longer the exclusive terrain of geeks and nerds, the industry happily embraces a multitude of personalities and ability levels, with a plentiful supply of round and square pegs and holes.

Dissatisfaction in the workplace is a sorry state of affairs. Selfishness and poor decision making become the order of the day, and individual grievances turn into national and international challenges over time. Let's not waste any more time doing the wrong thing - we owe it to ourselves and society to find our vocation in life, and pursue it with a passion.