If you're going through this material it's probable that either you're considering a career change into IT and you've heard good things about MCSE's, or you're already a professional and you've realised that your career is blocked until your get the MCSE certification.

During your research, you will notice companies that reduce their costs by failing to use the latest version from Microsoft. Avoid training companies like these as you will face problems when it comes to exams. If you're learning from the wrong syllabus, it is going to be hugely difficult to get qualified. Don't use training companies who are only trying to make a sale. Advisors should be helping to verify that you are registering on the correct course. Don't be shoe-horned into their standard course by an inadequate outfit.

A typical blunder that potential students often succumb to is to concentrate on the course itself, instead of focusing on the end result they want to achieve. Colleges are brimming over with students who took a course because it seemed fun - instead of the program that would surely get them an enjoyable career or job. You could be training for only a year and end up doing the actual job for 10-20 years. Don't make the mistake of choosing what sounds like a very 'interesting' program and then put 10-20 years into something you don't even enjoy!

You'll want to understand what expectations industry may have of you. What precise qualifications you'll need and in what way you can gain some industry experience. It's definitely worth spending time assessing how far you wish to progress your career as it will affect your choice of exams. You'd also need help from an advisor that understands the sector you're considering, and is able to give you 'A day in the life of' outline of what you actually do on the job. All of these things are absolutely essential because you obviously have to know if you're barking up the wrong tree.

A number of trainees presume that the tech college or university track is still the most effective. So why then are commercially accredited qualifications beginning to overtake it? Key company training (as it's known in the industry) is far more specialised and product-specific. The IT sector has realised that such specialised knowledge is what's needed to service the demands of a technologically complex workplace. Microsoft, CISCO, Adobe and CompTIA are the dominant players. Higher education courses, for example, clog up the training with a great deal of loosely associated study - and much too wide a syllabus. Students are then prevented from learning the core essentials in sufficient depth.

Imagine if you were an employer - and you required somebody who had very specific skills. What should you do: Go through reams of different degrees and college qualifications from various applicants, trying to establish what they know and which vocational skills they have, or select a specialised number of commercial certifications that exactly fulfil your criteria, and then select who you want to interview from that. The interview is then more about the person and how they'll fit in - instead of having to work out if they can do the job.

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