Randy’s Career Tips

Do you love your job? If not, can you make money doing something you love? When you were approaching the end of your education, either getting ready to leave school or about to graduate from college, you had dreams of a career in something you truly enjoyed. Perhaps you wanted to travel or become a writer or performer or have a career in sports. And the advice you were given was to get a real job, which meant a regular 9-5 job in a stable career such as teaching or accountancy.

There is a very good chance that you ended up following that advice – not because you wanted to, but because it was so difficult to get started in your chosen career or you were conscious of the fact that you had student loans to repay.

And now you hate your job, are bored and wish you could do something more inspiring.

Changing career always seems a risky step, and even more so these days, with the threat of unemployment in our minds constantly, thanks to TV, radio and newspapers. But, in a climate where anyone could lose their jobs, having what was once considered a stable career is no longer a guarantee against redundancy. So you might well ask what on earth was the point of getting in a so-called good job in the first place.

If you find yourself in this situation, look at it as a good opportunity to think about what you really want. After all, you have nothing to lose if your employer is about to show you the door.

You may not be able to step right into the job you’d really like, especially if it requires training or is in a competitive field or one which is being hit by the recession. But you can take a step in the right direction.

List all the skills and talents you would have been using had you chosen your dream career. Then take a look at the jobs which are out there and the industries which are booming in the recession. How do your Read the rest of this entry »

If you are looking for fresher jobs and luck just does not seem to be on your side, perhaps you need to go for some diploma courses or further your training and major in a specific area that will both give you a good pay package, as well as get you a prized position that others will envy.

The truth of the matter is, that there is nothing wrong with studying extra or taking up a training course in order to get ahead and get a good start in your career. No one will look down on you for it, and may in fact respect and admire the fact that you are out to make a real god career for yourself.

There are some very good courses online that will properly prepare you for and give you an edge on fresher IT jobs, net fresher jobs, sap fresher jobs, MBA fresher jobs, etc.

For example, an article I read talked of jobs for freshers. It spoke of Cisco training and how it was a pre-requisite to passing certain Cisco certification exams which are vital and very important to establishing credentials in networking and other IT skills that are related.

It said that Cisco training classes covered a broad variety of network training courses and other courses that will equip candidates and freshers with the wherewithal to get and hold a good job with a good package to boot! Now who’s complaining about more studies?!?

Apparently the Cisco training programmes cater to the needs of both freshers and professionals when it comes to giving them good career prospects in any given industry, and the best part is that there is a lot of course variety when it comes to their training programmes.

Some examples of these training courses are: Cisco Data Center Training, Cisco Security Training, Cisco Network Management Training, Cisco Switching and Routing Training, Cisco Optical Training, Cisco Unified Wireless Training, and lots, lots more!

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