If you are considering an excellent career in network support then the Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator course is an ideal qualification for you. Whether you're about to get going or have previous knowledge but need to improve your CV, a number of options are available to help you either way. If you're considering joining the computing environment as a beginner, you're very likely to need to have some coaching before doing all four MCP exams required to achieve MCSA certification. Search for a training organisation that can design a course to cater for you - it should be possible for you to chat with an industry expert to work out what the best way forward is for you.

With so much choice, does it really shock us that the majority of trainees have no idea which career they will follow. As in the absence of any solid background in IT, how can most of us be expected to understand what any job actually involves? Arriving at any kind of right resolution really only appears via a methodical analysis covering many different factors:

* Your personality type and what you're interested in - what working tasks please or frustrate you.

* Is it your desire to realise a key dream - like being your own boss sometime soon?

* Where is the salary on a scale of importance - is it the most important thing, or is enjoying your job a little higher on the priority-scale?

* With so many areas to train for in computing - it's wise to gain a basic understanding of what separates them.

* Having a proper look at how much time and effort you can give.

For most of us, considering so much data requires a good chat with someone that has direct industry experience. And not just the qualifications - you also need to understand the commercial expectations and needs also.

Don't get hung-up, as many people do, on the training course itself. You're not training for the sake of training; you should be geared towards the actual job at the end of it. Focus on the end-goal. It's a testament to the marketing skills of the big companies, but thousands of new students start out on programs that sound great in the marketing materials, but which provides a job that is of no interest at all. Try talking to typical university leavers and you'll see where we're coming from.

Stay tuned-in to where you want to go, and create a learning-plan from that - not the other way round. Stay focused on the end-goal and study for a career you'll enjoy for years to come. Chat with someone who understands the work you're contemplating, and is able to give you a detailed run-down of the kind of things you'll be doing on a daily basis. Getting to the bottom of all this well before beginning a retraining programme makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

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