Traditional teaching in classrooms, utilising reference manuals and books, is an up-hill struggle for the majority of us. If all this is ringing some familiar bells, find training programs which feature interactive and multimedia modules. Research into the way we learn shows that we remember much more when all our senses are involved, and we get practically involved in what we're studying.

You can now study via interactive discs. Real-world classes from the instructors will mean you'll learn your subject through their teaching and demonstrations. Then you test your knowledge by using practice-lab's. It would be silly not to view some examples of the kind of training materials you'll be using before you make your decision. Always insist on instructor-led video demonstrations and a variety of audio-visual and interactive sections.

Plump for disc based courseware (On CD or DVD) in all circumstances. You're then protected from broadband 'downtime' or slow-speeds.

A service that several companies offer is job placement assistance. This is to assist your search for your first position. The fact of the matter is it's not as hard as some people make out to secure a job - assuming you're well trained and qualified; the growing UK skills shortage sees to that.

However, what is relevant is to have help and assistance with preparing a CV and getting interviews though; also we would encourage everybody to work on polishing up their CV right at the beginning of their training - don't wait for when you're ready to start work. It can happen that you haven't even got to the exam time when you land your first junior support position; although this is not possible if your CV isn't in front of employers. If you'd like to keep travelling time and costs to a minimum, then you'll probably find that a specialist locally based employment agency may be more appropriate than a centralised service, because they are much more inclined to be familiar with the local job scene.

Just make sure you don't put hundreds of hours of effort into your studies, and then just stop and imagine someone else is miraculously going to find you a job. Stop procrastinating and make your own enquiries. Channel the same resource into getting a good job as it took to get qualified.

Don't accept anything less than accredited simulation materials and an exam preparation system included in your course. Some students can get thrown by practising exam questions that aren't recognised by official sources. Often, the way questions are phrased is unfamiliar and you should be prepared for this. You should make sure you test how much you know through quizzes and practice in simulated exam environments before you take the real thing.

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