CIW Training Offers a Vendor-Neutral Solution to IT Job Hunting

Whether you are just starting or switching to an IT career, or are already an experienced professional, CIW certification can help you gain valuable skills. Each of the wide range of CIW training courses is angled towards preparing you for a particular type of job, not a particular brand of software.

What CIW Training Courses Are Available?

Eight different CIW training courses are currently available, each aiming to teach you a set of skills geared towards a particular type of job.

CIW Associate for basic Internet technologies (e.g. e-mail, Web browsing, networking).
CIW Professional teaches Internet skills plus expertise in additional area, like web design or database management.
CIW Security Analyst for skills in Internet security technologies.
CIW Web Developer for web development and administration, plus software design and creation.
Master CIW Designer for work with images, sound and digital presentations, advanced web development and administration and/or technical writing.
Master CIW Administrator for database development and administration and network design and administration.
Master CIW Enterprise Developer for potential programmers and software engineers.
Master CIW Web Site Manager for web development and administration.

What's So Special About CIW Training?

The thing that sets CIW certification apart from other types of training courses is its vendor-neutrality. CIW courses are designed to teach you skills that can be applied to a wide variety of different Internet technologies and platforms, rather than a single company's product.

For example, let's say you want to learn about website design. If you choose a training program dedicated to a particular software package -- like Macromedia Dreamweaver, or Microsoft FrontPage -- you would learn all the ins and outs of that particular package, but not much more.

With a CIW training course, you learn about a range of softwares for creating web pages, plus much more about the whole subject of web design and authoring. This means that

a) You emerge from your CIW training with a broader understanding of Internet systems.
b) This versatility offers a wider choice of jobs.

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