{"id":8830,"date":"2008-12-15T04:10:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T10:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/uk-based-retraining\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T04:10:06","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T10:10:06","slug":"uk-based-retraining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=8830","title":{"rendered":"UK Based Retraining"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Scott Edwards<\/div>\n<p>Retraining UK wide falls into several different areas. Before taking any decisions, look at why you&#8217;re considering going in another direction.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you suffer from frustration and boredom at work. Perhaps you&#8217;re looking for more challenges, or a less stressful environment. Do you feel persecuted and under-valued in your job, and possibly taken advantage of? Is the industry you work in slowing down?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you have to work anti-social hours, or don&#8217;t earn enough money for your needs. It could be you just don&#8217;t like it or need a change, or maybe deep-down you know you haven&#8217;t found what you want to do yet. <\/p>\n<p>To make a change requires action, but by reading this you&#8217;re taking the first step. Actually doing something new can be quite scary, but rest assured you&#8217;re walking on a well trodden path.<\/p>\n<p>Having decided that retraining is of interest to you, the next thing to look at is what career would you like to get into. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some questions to be thinking about:<\/p>\n<p>* Is extra income important to you?<\/p>\n<p>* Do you expect to retrain into a lifelong career?<\/p>\n<p>* Is finding a new job quickly an important factor in retraining?<\/p>\n<p>*Are you looking for a skill that&#8217;s in demand nationwide, and not just in small pockets of the country?<\/p>\n<p>We mention these points because they&#8217;re typical things that most people we speak to are looking for. Despite that, many don&#8217;t think of them all before choosing a new career path. Avoid the common mistake of selecting a training course for a limiting career. <\/p>\n<p>So, answering our questionnaire, we&#8217;ll make the assumption that an ideal retraining programme should lead to a career with above average pay, employment up to retirement age, and a great skill shortage. It should also have job opportunities throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<p>When you fully understand what you want out of a new career, you can really fine tune the optimum role for you. The best way to do this is to speak to a training advisor with knowledge of the job on a day to day basis. It&#8217;s sometimes surprising how little we know until we do this.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>Scott Edwards has been working in the IT and Training industry for 30 years. He reckons he really should know what he&#8217;s doing by now. To get more information and advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retraining--uk.co.uk\">Retraining UK<\/a>, visit LearningLolly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learninglolly.com\">IT Training<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retraining UK wide falls into several different areas. Before taking any decisions, look at why you&#8217;re considering going in another direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-8830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-technology","tag-computers-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}