Getting into IT

eyeball kid

Hi all,
Posted this in another forum but might get a few responses here.

Maybe there might be a couple of people out there that can offer some advise.
I currently have a telecoms degree and have been working in Radio engineering this last number of years. However its very restrictive in where I can work. (ie only Dublin really). Currently living in Newbridge and sick of the commute so really fancy somthing different. This is where I believe IT could help me not be tied down to working in Dublin.

Does anyone know of any courses that would allow me to move into IT? It would have to be a part time course. Or is there any companies that take people on with very little experience? I'd be quite interested in networking (background in telecoms so use to the idea of routing, protocols, OSI model), and have some UNIX and SQL/database experience.
Something hands on would really interest me.

Or am I just wasting my time and the only way would be to for a full time course?

Sorry for the long post.
thanks

Feelgood

Hey Eyeball,

If you have a backround in Telecoms you should be able to breeze through most of the networking stuff.....

The best things to look at would be Cisco Certification, CCNA, CCNP
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/learning_career_certifications_and_learning_paths_home.html

or Juniper network certification.
http://www.juniper.net/training/certification/

Any of these certifications will help you to transition in I.T.

Hope this helps...