subject: Where To Do Your Adobe Web Design Course - Thoughts [print this page] If you fancy a career in web design, you will need to study Adobe Dreamweaver. In order to take advantage of Dreamweaver professionally as a web designer, an in-depth understanding of the complete Adobe Web Creative Suite (which includes Flash and Action Script) is in our opinion essential. With these skills, you can go onto become either an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) or Adobe Certified Professional (ACP).
Understanding how to construct the website is only the beginning. Driving traffic, maintaining content and some programming skills are also required. Think about training programmes with additional features that teach these subjects perhaps HTML, PHP and MySQL, along with search engine optimisation (SEO) and E-Commerce skills.
Some training providers offer a Job Placement Assistance program, to help you get your first job. Often, there is more emphasis than is necessary on this service, for it is genuinely quite straightforward for a well trained and motivated person to get a job in IT - because there's a great need for qualified personnel.
Help and assistance with preparing a CV and getting interviews may be available (if it isn't, consult one of our sites). Make sure you update that dusty old CV today - not when you're ready to start work! Various junior support roles have been offered to trainees who're still on their course and have still to get qualified. At least this will get you on your way. Actually, a local IT focused recruitment consultant or service (who will get paid by the employer when they've placed you) should get better results than any centralised training company's service. It also stands to reason that they'll know local industry and the area better.
Various trainees, it seems, spend evenings and weekends on their training and studies (for years sometimes), and just give up when it comes to attempting to secure their first job. Introduce yourself... Do everything you can to put yourself out there. Don't expect a job to just fall into your lap.
It's not uncommon for companies to offer inclusive exam guarantees - inevitably that means paying for the exams at the start of your training. Before you get carried away with a course with such a promise, why not look at the following:
It's very clear we're still paying for it - it's not so hard to see that it's already been included in the overall price charged by the training provider. It's absolutely not free (it's just marketing companies think we'll fall for anything they say!) Evidence shows that if students pay for their own exams, one at a time, the chances are they're going to pass every time - since they're aware of what they've paid and so will prepare more thoroughly.
Does it really add up to pay your training company up-front for exams? Find the best deal you can when you're ready, instead of paying any mark-up - and sit exams more locally - instead of miles away at the college's beck and call. Considerable numbers of unscrupulous training course providers make a great deal of profit by charging for examinations upfront and banking on the fact that many won't be taken. In addition to this, you should consider what an 'exam guarantee' really means. The majority of organisations will not pay for re-takes until you have demonstrated conclusively that you won't fail again.
Shelling out hundreds or thousands of pounds on 'Exam Guarantees' is short-sighted - when hard work, commitment and the right preparation via exam simulations is what will really see you through.
The way in which your courseware is broken down for you can often be overlooked. How many parts is the training broken down into? What is the specific order and do you have a say in when you'll get each part? Most companies will sell you a 2 or 3 year study programme, and drop-ship the materials to you piecemeal as you complete each section or exam. If you think this sound logical, then consider this: Maybe the order of study offered by the provider doesn't suit. And what if you don't finish every element inside of their particular timetable?
Ideally, you'd ask for every single material to be delivered immediately - so you'll have them all to come back to at any time in the future - at any time you choose. Variations can then be made to the order that you complete each objective where a more intuitive path can be found.
When did you last consider your job security? For most people, this isn't an issue until we get some bad news. Unfortunately, the reality is that our job security has gone the way of the dodo, for all but the most lucky of us. When we come across escalating skills shortages and increasing demand however, we generally locate a new kind of market-security; where, fuelled by a continual growth, businesses find it hard to locate enough staff.
Recently, a UK e-Skills study brought to light that over 26 percent of IT jobs remain unfilled mainly due to a chronic shortage of appropriately certified professionals. Put simply, we can only fill three out of every four jobs in the computing industry. This one truth in itself shows why the country is in need of many more workers to get trained and enter the IT sector. In actuality, gaining new qualifications in IT over the years to come is likely the best career choice you could ever make.
