IT Career [Monthly] State of IT - What is hot, trends, jobs, locations.... Tell us what you're seeing! |
- [Monthly] State of IT - What is hot, trends, jobs, locations.... Tell us what you're seeing!
- Can anyone recommend a good networking book for a level 1 tech?
- Network path vs Linux path
- Information Systems Graduating in December 2018
- CEH with no experience
- Is it probable to land an IT job with a BA in Liberal Arts with a Computer Science concentration instead of BS Computer Science
- I can't afford the certifications, what do I do?
- Looking for some advice regarding breaking into the IT market in the UK
- Need help choosing job
- Vendor Neutral Firewall Certifications?
- Is ccna cert worth it?
- As an established IT professional, how important are certs?
- Certifications or degree
- Tier 1 Help Desk Vacation?
- Should I be as frustrated as I am about this project at work?
- *UPDATE* on first IT job...Helpdesk 1
- Should I go ahead and get A+, Network +, and Security + certified or wait until National Guard AIT?
- Why are so many open positions contracts these days?
- For those who are data engineers, how do you like your job?
- MIS Degree Holders: Where are you now?
- Is this an average salary in the DMV area?
- Found a job - and another one... need advice!
- Salary Negotiation Question
| [Monthly] State of IT - What is hot, trends, jobs, locations.... Tell us what you're seeing! Posted: 22 Sep 2018 01:13 AM PDT Let's keep track of new trends we are seeing in IT. What technologies are folks seeing that are hot or soon to be hot? What skills are in high demand? Which job markets are hot? Are folks seeing a lot of jobs out there? Let's talk about all of that in this thread. [link] [comments]  |
| Can anyone recommend a good networking book for a level 1 tech? Posted: 22 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2018 07:46 AM PDT Hello everyone, I poke around here from time to time and I have been coming to the realization I may want to change career paths and have a question about it. First let me start off with where I'm at. 25 years old as a Jr Network Admin at a hospital with also a healthy amount of sysadmin work thrown in. I have my CCENT and will be sitting for my CCNA in a month. As I gain knowledge I am starting to feel like I want to be somewhere in the Linux world. A personal goal of mine is to make 100k by 30 looking at salary only and I'm questioning the odds that I can "start over" and still meet this goal as I have basically zero professional Linux experience. I enjoy networking, I just feel this allure to Linux and even though I have a lot to work on to meet my goal with Networking, I'm already in the door as far as experience goes and know I have a better chance to hit it continuing down this route. Does anybody have any insight? Edit: I'm in the New England area not near Boston or NYC. [link] [comments]  |
| Information Systems Graduating in December 2018 Posted: 22 Sep 2018 10:12 AM PDT I was wondering if I can get a Help desk job with no experience with an IS degree? While taking classes for the IS degree, I found that I didn't enjoy the major. Nothing really stuck with me. It was too late to change majors. My GPA isn't too great also. 2.6 GPA. Any help is appreciated. I know I'm the worst student. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2018 09:51 AM PDT My employer had a slot open up for a group CEH certification class that they paid for. I attended and passed but have no background in IT whatsoever. What is the best way for me to go about getting a job? I do not have any more basic certs (Net+, SEC+, A+, etc.). Every position I can find with CEH as a preference also wants 5-10 years of IT experience. Am I better off just working on the lower level certs? Any help is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2018 03:52 AM PDT Just as the title states, a BA in liberal arts with a computer science degree well received in the industry or should I just go for computer science? Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| I can't afford the certifications, what do I do? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 11:58 AM PDT My degree is in biochemistry, but I have a pretty good grasp on IT. I've read several dozen study guides and books for CompTIA/CCNA, and I think I can get past an entry level interview. My problem is that I can't afford the cost of the actual exams. A+ is like $400 something for both exams, CCNA is around $300. With my current take home pay, I'm in the red every month and have to do odd jobs like walking dogs in my neighborhood to break even and pay for groceries. So it's not like I can save up and get the certs. Are there any waivers or vouchers for low income test takers? Can I realistically get a job with no experience/no certs? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for some advice regarding breaking into the IT market in the UK Posted: 22 Sep 2018 03:29 AM PDT I've done a good amount of research on this sub and elsewhere regarding the best way to break into the IT industry in the UK, but all I'm finding is conflicting answers and it's becoming extremely confusing. Some people are saying the Comptia certs are useless for finding an entry level job in the UK, while others are saying the opposite. Some people say that I should focus on ITIL to start with, others say the Microsoft certs (MTA followed by MCSA) are a better route to go down. So in all honesty I have no idea what the best path is. Security is what I'd like to focus on. I appreciate that this is a US centric sub, but it seems that the majority of replies on questions regarding the UK IT industry are coming from Americans who might not know the UK market at all, and therefore the answers given may not be extremely helpful. It seems that because of the fact that in the US the Comptia certs are highly regarded, it is assumed that this is the case here also. So basically I'm trying to get some solid advice from UK based people in the IT industry about the best way of getting in. A bit of backgrond info about myself - I have a strong professional history in customer service, handling client portfolios across various industries, and sales. I have a masters degree in a science related subject (although not a very 'technical' subject), and I'm in my early 30's. I'm fairly computer literate at this stage and don't think I'll have any issues with self teaching the beginner/intermediate level stuff in order to pass the certs, even if it takes a few years to finish the intermediate level certs. An apprenticeship isn't really an option as I have a mortgage and it wouldn't pay enough, but I'm more than happy to start in an entry level job paying £18k+ just to get my foot in the door. I live in a fairly large city which I assume would be beneficial. If anyone can give me some help it would be much appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2018 08:59 AM PDT Hello Reddit! I currently work for a large event/ticketing company. I am sort of a graphic designer but I am trying to get into IT. I am currently following the software dev program at WGU and I am planning to be a software engineer after I graduate. I recently had an interview for a technical analyst 2 position at Oracle. Would this be a good company for my future career? Is this job even considered IT? My confusion is that I could probably also become a developer where I am working now and I also like my current job but it seems like Oracle would be much better to have on my resume and that it is more tech-oriented. Plus the pay is better. HELP [link] [comments]  |
| Vendor Neutral Firewall Certifications? Posted: 22 Sep 2018 08:03 AM PDT New member on my company's firewall team. Looking to supplement my on the job learning with a cert or two. I was going to go for my ccna security (have R&S already) but we're moving away from Cisco ASA's to Checkpoint and Fortinet. I'd like to continue the Cisco route but not if it is all ASA stuff. And it looks like the Fortinet and Checkpoint certs assume you have knowledge already, and are more designed to show how to implement their own products. Looking for something with more design and theory focused vs vendor specific commands/etc. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Sep 2018 12:34 AM PDT Just wondering, I have an associate degree in computer science towards programming.... Which isn't doing me any good in a flyover state. Networking seems to be more practical from what I observed lately. [link] [comments]  |
| As an established IT professional, how important are certs? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 02:53 PM PDT I have been working in IT for the past 10 years. For the last 3 I have been a sysadmin. If I were to apply for other enterprise sysadmin jobs, how important would it be to pick up some new certs? I already have my MCSA. [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 21 Sep 2018 11:27 AM PDT I received an offer letter for a tier 1 help desk position, with an hourly rate of pay. There seems to be no vacation or PTO outside of the standard recognized holidays. Is this normal or should I be trying to counter for at least one week? [link] [comments]  |
| Should I be as frustrated as I am about this project at work? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 08:09 PM PDT I started my first career-oriented position earlier this year, and while it's not what I thought I'd end up doing it is tech related and I'm happy to work there. The company website hasn't been changed in well over a decade, and when I mentioned to my department director that I've been doing a lot of web development coursework at school lately he immediately jumped on the chance to get me involved since an overhaul was underway and no one else in the office was up to doing the coding/development portion. I was excited since this was a chance to prove myself and work on a project relevant to my interests. Over the next few weeks, I prototyped and a small group of us got together regularly to discuss design and requirements. I built a site that I was proud of from the ground up, spending about 100-200 hours on it. Then suddenly, a higher executive decided that it wasn't worth maintaining my version and that it didn't meet the goals he had in mind. Note that he was involved at first but didn't participate for the bulk of the process, so the fact that he came into the picture this late in the process (a week or two before an intended launch) was unexpected. Now he has decided that we should use the drag-and-drop functionality of Wordpress to develop a whole new site. He has delegated the development process to myself and two brand new guys who have business backgrounds and couldn't write a single line of CSS. He is having us copy existing sites of businesses in the same sector, sticking to what I consider a lame trend in site design that is unoriginal and fleeting. On one hand, they have made it clear to me that it was their own lack of coordination that led to this and that they are proud of what I got done and how closely it aligned with the instruction that I was given, but I am still irritated by the fact that I spent so much time on a great site that several colleagues openly prefer to the new direction we are headed, and I think that having guys who don't have any background at all in web design getting hands-on is making my hard work in learning and applying web development feel cheap and useless. Has anyone had an experience like this? I'm trying to take it in stride on the surface but it's been bugging me. [link] [comments]  |
| *UPDATE* on first IT job...Helpdesk 1 Posted: 21 Sep 2018 06:50 PM PDT Turns out they've put us on an accelerated training schedule because they're hurting for ppl; there are 4 more classes behind me...a new class every single week so far....pretty crazy...and as you can imagine...it's pretty hectic in the call center right now. Normal training is actually 3 months, but they're trying to kick us out in 5 weeks. We're the guinea pig class. They threw us on the phones taking live calls on day 3. LOL Anyway, it's a good strategy because class time training only takes you so far and I believe the "rip off the tape" approach makes you learn much quicker and it tests your ability to handle pressure. What they do is train you on one topic for 2 days in class...then throw you on the phones and put you in that specific queue for whatever topic you learned for the rest of that week. Then the next week, 2 days of classroom on the next topic....then throw you on the next queue for that week.....rinse and repeat. It's pretty efficient and works very well. When someone said researching skills is the most important of IT helpdesk....was not kidding. This company supports over 4,000 applications...I think hospitals use about 20,000 apps.....anyway, it's impossible to know everything so learning how to search different databases is key. Do note though, not all databases are as efficient as Google....and not everything can be found on Google...especially when it's proprietary software. I've tried....Google doesn't know everything after all. That's the type of thing you just have to understand how the database thinks...it's weird and cannot explain it. They all have their own way of thinking and it can be extremely frustrating. For example...I could search for "when pigs fly" and the database would kick out "When water balloons pop". But when I search for "pigs" it'll find every single document with "pigs" in it. Weird, right? Currently they're hiring like crazy(When I say crazy....they normally only train 1-3 IT helpdesk at a time....they are now training 6-8 at a time) and give us $10 vouchers for food in the cafeteria everyday including a snack table (ALL FREE) with coffee/water/chips/candy/snacks inside the call center room (I can only assume that this is for retention and morale purposes). There were 4 classes that started every week behind mine...I think they're starting another one in October. It's absolutely chaotic because they hired more ppl they can currently accommodate so they actually moved out a couple of departments into other rooms to fit us new IT helpdesk ppl in this now one large room. It's kind of exciting actually because it's organized chaos.....there's only 1 designated training room so imagine everyone shuffling from here to there(We have to take our desktops with us because each one is assigned to a specific user) depending on the training schedule. It's lively to say the least.....feels like a startup lol Anyway, there are challenging/frustrating days, but since we're on the accelerated training schedule, it's just a learning curve we have to get over until it begins to plateau a little. With the new roll out of Windows 10 upgrade on everyone's system, this will be job security for...at least...the next 5 years with this particular company. Several software incompatibilities is an understatement. I'm tired, but excited. You feel good for saving someone's day on one call and feel absolutely powerless when you can't fix an issue on the next one. When the job description said "self motivator"....they weren't kidding. It's absolutely mind boggling how every single call you get can be completely different from the last one because of thousands of different types of software just one company uses. I can see myself burning out just by trying to learn all of this stuff in a couple of years. I'll start working on AWS certs soon. [link] [comments]  |
| Should I go ahead and get A+, Network +, and Security + certified or wait until National Guard AIT? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 01:51 PM PDT Hello, I am currently a senior in college and I will be graduating in May 2019. So, roughly I have about 8 months left before graduation. I planned on getting my A+, Network+, and Security+ certs before I graduate, but I made plans to join the National Guard with a 25B MOS. I want to get certified but with my college courses, job, and other outside activities, I kept putting off studying for those certs. Should I go ahead and get certified now or wait until 25B AIT and get certified then? Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Why are so many open positions contracts these days? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 12:45 PM PDT What happened to getting a permanent hire position and why do there seem to be so few of them? [link] [comments]  |
| For those who are data engineers, how do you like your job? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 11:12 AM PDT |
| MIS Degree Holders: Where are you now? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 01:44 PM PDT I'm still in school studying Accounting/MIS(minor). I've found that I'm far more interested in my MIS coursework and I can change my minor to a dual major and only add one extra semester. I went with accounting due to its easy to predict salary progression, easy to obtain positions in public, etc. I'm curious about you guys with MIS degrees, though. What kind of jobs are you guys going into out of school? BA? Consultants? System Engineers (broad term, I know)? I'm definitely interested in database stuff and I'm learning SQL on my own, Python at school, and I know there's a ton more out there that I'd be really interested in. I'm figuring that I can definitely go into an IT Audit or pure Audit role, but I'm really interested in what else is out there. Any anecdotes are totally welcome! [link] [comments]  |
| Is this an average salary in the DMV area? Posted: 21 Sep 2018 07:05 PM PDT Hi everyone, I asked around in Personal Finance, and they thought it was a perfectly fine salary for someone like me. I did want to verify with you guys, first. So, the details. I'm a CIS student who will be graduating this December. A federal contractor contacted me yesterday; I'll be paid a $52k/yr salary for an entry-level web dev role in the DMV area. However, it's $15,990 below the median wage. Do you guys think this is an okay-ish salary? I have the following experience:
If I'm being a super entitled brat, let me know. I'm not a hotshot programmer, but COL in the DMV area is high. I'm likely going to take the job, as working for the federal government is pretty valuable experience FWIW. Just want to know your perspective as fellow IT folk! [link] [comments]  |
| Found a job - and another one... need advice! Posted: 21 Sep 2018 06:52 PM PDT A few months back I had to make a decision between two positions, and I feel like I made a good choice. I immediately fit in with the rest of the medical center department, I've taken to the position, my bosses are excellent and seem interested in putting me on a fairly rapid career growth path given my education and certs. I'm nearing the end 90 day probation window but once that's complete I'm looking at a likely raise, tuition reimbursement, PTO and the department paying for additional cert exams like CCNA, AWS and Azure. But now I'm coming up to a problem. Before I took the position, I was contacted by a recruiter for a Junior IT entry-level position. The biggest draw to this position, however, was that the recruiter was willing to sponsor me for a security clearance. As I mentioned in my previous post, one of the biggest tech employment possibilities in my area involve the local military base, but just about every base position requires either a Secret or TS clearance and up until now no firms were sponsoring those without clearances. I was told that an interim clearance would take between 8-12 weeks to process (with the full clearance coming 1-2 years later) and I started that process before I was formally offered the job I'm currently in. This evening the base recruiter came back and said he expects my interim clearance to be finalized next week. I asked him if I could delay my start date for up to a month and he was fine with that. Even if I take this new position, I want to give full notice to my current job and not just ghost them, because they've done me right for the time I've worked for them.
So with all this in mind, what should I do? I need to formally accept the new position by early next week, so time is a bit of a factor. My gut is telling me to sit down with my manager, tell him what the new job is offering, and see if they can match or beat it to keep me with them, but I'm not sure what they would have to offer that would be able to trump the possibilities a security clearance opens up. I do want to leave on good terms if that's the decision I make, and I don't want to sit down and make salary demands if it would sour what they think of me. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2018 04:48 PM PDT Greetings All, I just got an email for job I would very much like to have. They said to email them back my resume and salary request. If I overshoot what they looking to offer will I be dismissed as a candidate completely or will they came back with a counter offer? I know every company is unique but I was wondering what I could expect in general if I miscalculate my offer. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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