With hundreds of computer courses on the market today, it's sometimes daunting to find the right one. Go for one that's in line with your abilities and personality, and that's needed commercially. Pick out training for user skills like Microsoft Office packages, or take a career track and specialise. Plain speaking courses will soon propel you to achieving your goals.

Because there are such a lot of well priced, easily understood courses and support, we're confident you'll get to something that should take you into industry.

You have to make sure that all your qualifications are what employers want - don't bother with programs that lead to in-house certificates. The main industry leaders such as Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe or CompTIA all have nationally approved proficiency courses. Huge conglomerates such as these will make your CV stand-out.

Can job security really exist anywhere now? In a marketplace like the UK, with industry changing its mind whenever it suits, we'd question whether it does. We can however hit upon security at the market sector level, by searching for high demand areas, together with work-skill shortages.

Using the computer market for instance, a recent e-Skills analysis highlighted a skills shortage in the country around the 26 percent mark. Alternatively, you could say, this clearly demonstrates that the UK can only locate three qualified staff for each four job positions that exist currently. Appropriately taught and commercially educated new workers are as a result at an absolute premium, and it looks like they will be for a long time. Undoubtedly, this really is a fabulous time to join the IT industry.

Some training providers only give support to you inside of office hours (typically 9am-6pm) and sometimes a little earlier or later; very few go late in the evening or at weekends. Try and find training with help available at any time of the day or night (no matter if it's in the middle of the night on a weekend!) Make sure it's always 24x7 direct access to mentors and instructors, and not access to a call-in service which takes messages - so you're consistently being held in a queue for a call-back at a convenient time for them.

Keep looking and you'll come across the very best companies that offer online direct access support all the time - even in the middle of the night. Don't accept second best where support is concerned. The majority of trainees that give up, are in that situation because of a lack of support.

It's not uncommon for companies to offer inclusive exam guarantees - this always means you have to pay for the exams when you pay for the rest of your course. However, prior to embracing a course with such a promise, why not look at the following:

You're paying for it by some means. It's definitely not free - they've simply charged more for the whole training package. The fact is that when students fund each progressive exam, at the time of taking them, there's a much better chance they'll qualify each time - because they're aware of the cost and so will prepare more thoroughly.

Don't pay up-front, but seek out the best deal for you at the time, and hang on to your cash. You'll also be able to choose where to do your exams - so you can choose somewhere closer to home. A lot of extra profit is made by a significant number of organisations that get money for exam fees in advance. A number of students don't take them for various reasons and so the company is quids-in. Surprising as it sounds, providers exist that rely on that fact - as that's very profitable for them. It's worth noting, with 'Exam Guarantees' from most places - you are not in control of when you can re-take the exam. They'll only allow a re-take once completely satisfied.

On average, exams cost 112 pounds or thereabouts in the last 12 months when taken at VUE or Pro-metric centres in the UK. So what's the point of paying maybe a thousand pounds extra to get 'an Exam Guarantee', when any student knows that the responsible approach is a regular, committed, study programme, with an accredited exam preparation system.

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