BlueMax wrote:
An "A+ Certified Technician" certificate is fast, cheap and easy to get - he may even be able to challenge the test and get it without a course at all.
With that small certification, he can get repair jobs at some big-box stores that sell computers... the pay's not great but better than unemployment! He'll have a sense of some fulfillment as well.
This would probably be a good idea.
A lot of basic help desk or repair shop jobs will value this over a comparable nothing.
If he's been in the computer field for a few months at least he could probably take the test cold and pass it.
I have one from 2004 and recently took the new revision in 2011. It's gotten a LOT easier, with questions like "what is the most popular external storage interface for a PC". You used to have to know crap like bus speeds and serial port addresses, etc.
Not sure what kind of market you live in, most of the PC shops around my area usually have help wanted signs posted. It could be worth asking them even if they don't.
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02 Mar 2013, 11:58 am
