Training courses

[Alderson]

Hello,

After a career break I'm looking to get back into IT. I worked as a Project Manager for almost 10 years in the IT industry but I would like to go into support and hopefully network support as my career advances.

Can anyone recommend a good training course/qualification which will make my CV stand out. I don't know whether to go down the CompTIA, or Microsoft route. Any advice would be warmly welcomed.

Thanks

[administrator]

Welcome to the forum I have moved your thread to the appropriate forum, hopefully you will get some better responses in here. I will send you a message about maybe changing your username too.

[northernladuk]

Hello,

After a career break I'm looking to get back into IT. I worked as a Project Manager for almost 10 years in the IT industry but I would like to go into support and hopefully network support as my career advances.

Can anyone recommend a good training course/qualification which will make my CV stand out. I don't know whether to go down the CompTIA, or Microsoft route. Any advice would be warmly welcomed.

Thanks

Are you talking about permie career or contracting? I wouldn't have normally said a move in to support from a PM is a career advancement.

[Lance]

Are you talking about permie career or contracting? I wouldn't have normally said a move in to support from a PM is a career advancement.

Unless the OP is a really awful PM then you're right. It's not advancing at all. Probably around 1/4 of the day rate.

[Lance]

Hello,

After a career break I'm looking to get back into IT. I worked as a Project Manager for almost 10 years in the IT industry but I would like to go into support and hopefully network support as my career advances.

Can anyone recommend a good training course/qualification which will make my CV stand out. I don't know whether to go down the CompTIA, or Microsoft route. Any advice would be warmly welcomed.

Depends on what you want to support. If desktop then MS route.
CompTIA is valueless.
If you're technical and academic then Cisco CCNA is achievable in a fairly short amount of time and more likely to help change career path totally.
Not sure that any of it will help you contracting though. You'd be better off selling 10+ years as an IT PM as that's worth more.

[Alderson]

Thanks for helping out everyone