When you’re young, people will ask you what you want to be when you grow up. As you get older this becomes a way of structuring your education, because often you will have to make choices over the courses which you take in school which you will need to succeed in to get into college and university courses and to ultimately find your dream role in the workplace.

It’s difficult to think about when you’re young, and as a result many people will find themselves falling into a job that they’re not entirely interested in, and perhaps not best suited for either. Later in life you might find yourself retraining in order to meet the criteria for you to get a job doing your dream job (in whichever field that might be in).

Everything from IELTS preparation courses to night school and more can help you to retrain or refocus your existing skill set, but it’s well worth researching what the job expects you to have in terms of skills, experiences and courses you have taken. Not every job requires you to have a degree, for example, although many will (especially if you’re hoping to come in at a higher than entry level position).

IELTS preparation courses are an excellent way to study where you want to study. If you live and work outside of the United Kingdom, and English is not your first language but you wish to study here, you will have to prove that you are capable and you will be able to keep up. There are lots of benefits of studying in the UK, ranging from a proof that you’re capable of moving to a different country to reach your dream role, to the chance of building up relevant experience both in the field and the country where you want to be in the long term.

IELTS preparation courses are designed to help you get into universities in the UK, or other English speaking higher education facilities around the world. They help teach you the sorts of technical language you are likely to come across, and also to hone your skills in the sense that you will become a better speaker, listener, reader and writer of the English language.

Once you have completed an appropriate IELTS preparation course you will be able to get onto your desired course, and from there you will hopefully be able to find your dream career in the field you have always wanted to work in.