Becoming an IT Consultant: Skills You Need
When you’re thinking about becoming an IT consultant, remember – it really doesn’t matter if you lack advanced technical computer skills. This can be remedied through self study … and many business and social skills are going to be a lot more important to building the relationships you need to sustain your business anyway!
To learn technical skills when you’re becoming an IT consultant …
You can get not-for-resale (NFR) copies of products you want to sell, install and support and work on them in the confines of your lab. If you have a spare hour or half an hour, you can walk through basic installations, break them, and reinstall until you get comfortable.
A lot of the installations you’ll be handling for small business clients when you’re becoming an IT consultant will be pretty self driven, meaning they have wizards for basic installations and won’t require advanced computer skills.
Technical Skills You Need When Becoming an IT Consultant:
1. Strong PC hardware skills;
2. The ability to handle a peer-to-peer (P2P) set up;
3. A knowledge of TCP/IP;
4. An awareness of POP3 and SMTP;
5. A familiarity with how to work basic SOHO routers.
If you have these skills, you are on your way to becoming an IT consultant!
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Submitted By: Joshua Feinberg