IT Career How do you launch your career? |
- How do you launch your career?
- If you put your 2 weeks notice at old job, and manager made your last 2 weeks harder, would you quit before the 2 weeks?
- So you want to get into Cyber? Which part? I would like to share some of my experience of what Cyber is, and what it is not and hope for others to add in their experience.
- How important is the ABET accreditation for IT related careers ?
- is it even practical to try and continue an it career with mental health issues?
- When does job hopping hurt you?
- How did you get over the fear of failure?
- Robert Half Salaried Professional Service?
- Critique my resume until I cry
- Education Question
- Writing LinkedIn articles to attract recruiters?
- Changing career into IT from AV. Where would I fit in?
- Non-US citizen choosing an online masters program with intent of coming to the US?
- Recruiter moving quickly.
- Aspiring Network Engineer here looking for resume critique!
- Why isnt ergonomics talked about?
- BCS Membership?
- Good ways of crashing back into IT at 32 years old?
- A crisis of confidence - would appreciate some feedback and any hard truths
- Should I apply for jobs that require experience even as a graduate with no experience?
- Graveyard Shift
- Any of you have computer science degree and work in the IT networking/system admin industry?
- Job covering all tuition costs -- which online school is better? How do you look at degrees from online for-profit universities as an employer? (Capella University)
- How much do you pay for health insurance through your job?
| How do you launch your career? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:42 AM PST Hey folks. I'm a 26 year old who never finished college doing a networking/IT diploma due to personal reasons who recently took an entry level help desk /tech support job for a large call center. Currently making $14/hr providing support for $10000 devices to sysadmins making $50k+ for a $300M company and it just feels kind of wrong. I was making significantly more working at a restaurant for the past couple years but I'm looking to continue my career in the IT field but I'm not sure if I'm starting off on the right foot. I'm already starting to feel burnt out and financially drained doing this job but it gives me a good chance to study for my Network+ while getting paid for a reletively low stress job. Any advice for entry level guys looking to launch their careers? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2020 10:07 AM PST I work in a DC and plan on giving my 2 weeks for a way better county job. Manager expressed to me he takes it personal when people leave because they're short staffed. If he makes the work environment uncomfortable would you just leave earlier than the 2 weeks? I only had this job 3 months and can suffer the resume gap. I'm doing it as a courtesy, would expect some level of professionalism. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:30 AM PST I see a post about every other day from someone asking how to break into Cyber but not really have a specific goal or area of interest. I would like to share some of my experience of what Cyber is, and what it is not, for folks to think about narrowing their questions. Caveat here: I have always worked for Corporations, not an MSSP or similar so this is more of that view point. What Cyber Security / Information Security is not:
What Cyber Sec / Info Sec actually is:
Who actually gets into Cyber anyway?
If you've made it this far, awesome. If you have experience in this area to color in the lines, please do so. [link] [comments]  |
| How important is the ABET accreditation for IT related careers ? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 02:50 AM PST recently i found out that my college programs are abet accredited , i didn't know what that meant so i did a little research and apparently it's pretty good for engineering jobs in general but not so much for Computer science related jobs, can someone please confirm this , and does that apply to all IT related fields (networking , computer design , programming , etc..)? [link] [comments]  |
| is it even practical to try and continue an it career with mental health issues? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 10:09 AM PST i struggle with major depression and have been unemployed for over a year. my last job that i was able to hold down was only 6 months before i had an issue with my mental health that made me end up quitting the job, because they didn't provide me health care insurance. i'm not sure what to do since i've put out hundreds of applications and haven't got a response. when i do get job interviews, i ask for feedback when i don't land the job and get no response. i went through a 4 month interview process with vmware most recently and they didn't provide me any feedback when i asked for it. [link] [comments]  |
| When does job hopping hurt you? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 10:04 AM PST Let me preface by saying I've in been IT for 3 years now. My timeline looks something like this. 1st job - Cabling/phone technician - 8 months 2nd job - Help Desk - 1 year 3rd and current job - Network Engineer - 10 months Now the first job I left due to poor management/no upwards growth, but in my second and now third job I've noticed a trend. I tend to be very highly focused and learn a ton in the first 6-9 months of my job. Then I get comfortable with my tasks and somewhat bored. I'm really trying to stay at my current job for at least another year, but I can feel the comfortable/hitting a wall feeling starting to set in. Is it crazy to move jobs every year or two? Will this pattern begin to hurt my career if I don't begin to stay longer at companies? [link] [comments]  |
| How did you get over the fear of failure? Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:55 PM PST I'm 27M. I'm starting somewhat over and taking classes online. They start on Monday. I've messed a lot of things up so far in my life and while this is going to be an amazing thing that my fiancee and I are counting on I can't help but lie awake at 2am afraid that I'll never find my groove. That I'll pick the wrong field or not be smart enough. I picked myself from working a dead end job to being on the corporate side of pharmacy so I know that I have what it takes but I.T. is a whole different ballgame. I'm excited. Nervous. Scared. My fiancee looks at me and is so proud that I'm taking this step but deep inside I feel like an imposter. Sorry if this is the wrong section, but i was hoping to hear from people who actually work in I.T. about how you felt starting out and what you did to overcome your first big hurdle. Edit* I just wanted to thank you all for your advice and your kind words. That's definitely something I needed and the reminder that I love this field and I just have to narrow down the options so it's not as overwhelming. Get the basics. Find my niche. Push through. I already can't wait for that update once I've landed my first job. You guys and gals are amazing. [link] [comments]  |
| Robert Half Salaried Professional Service? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 09:38 AM PST Is anyone working for RH as a salaried professional? I had one of their recruiters reach out to me regarding applying for a role on his team working as a consultant. My big fear is that it's a giant shit show like a lot of the other big companies running consulting arms so I wanted to check here first to see if anyone is working for them now. [link] [comments]  |
| Critique my resume until I cry Posted: 03 Jan 2020 05:34 AM PST I'm an IT Support Specialist trying to be a Linux admin of any flavor.
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| Posted: 03 Jan 2020 09:03 AM PST Hello, I'm 26 and currently working towards my first Associates Degree. Still on the fence for the degree, either Cybersecurity or Networking most likely. My current job during school is not tech related, but before this I worked shorty for a telecommunications tech call center and previous to that I had almost 5 years at a bank with some entry level IT responsibilities on top of my regular duties. Not having much experience in the tech field is it better to continue on for bachelors or could I get away with some certifications for now possibly returning to school after I've found an IT job and could possibly have tuition reimbursed? Not sure what the dream job would be but plan on starting on help desk support, service tech, or possibly back in banking in a technical/operations capacity leading to FinTech opportunities. [link] [comments]  |
| Writing LinkedIn articles to attract recruiters? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 08:32 AM PST |
| Changing career into IT from AV. Where would I fit in? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 08:31 AM PST Hi, I've decided my career in Audio Visual isn't what I want to pursue any more for various reasons. I'm struggling to find where I would fit in as a career starting point. I would love to eventually end up in a role in Security or Cloud. I recently started my journey by passing my A+. Could someone take a look at my Resume and advise on a good starting point to kick off my career? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Non-US citizen choosing an online masters program with intent of coming to the US? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 08:23 AM PST Hi -- my cousin lives in Japan and is working for Toshiba in an IT job. Her goal is to one day come to the US and work. Her plan is to do an online masters program in Data Analysis and try to get over here. She has applied and gotten accepted to a few. I live in the US, am not in the IT industry so I don't have a lot of great advice. How should she choose which school to go with? If you had to give advice for coming to the US in general, what would that advice be? I know this is going to be hard to pull off -- but there's gotta be a few things she could do that would help her chances? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2020 08:07 AM PST So I guess this isn't just a IT question but the jobs I am looking for are in this field. I've just got done with an interview (that was scheduled a day after sending my resume) and was extended an offer quickly after - one that I would take without hesitation if it were the only option, but I am in the works of getting an interview for a job more aligned with my skills and interests. Anyways, do I just stick with the 'I need some time to think it over' and hold out until my other interview? I've never been in this position before so I'm not sure on the best play here. [link] [comments]  |
| Aspiring Network Engineer here looking for resume critique! Posted: 03 Jan 2020 07:34 AM PST So I've been applying to any IT job (Helpdesk, Field Tech, etc.) to get started working and having no success. As stated in title, my end goal is network engineer of some kind, but I'm ok starting in IT to gain experience and take time to accumulate some certs. I've landed some interviews but no offers quite yet. After months of applying, I'm starting to think there might be a resume problem for me. I've gone to career services at my school and they help but it's not the same as someone actually in IT reviewing it for me. Any and all criticism is greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Why isnt ergonomics talked about? Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:21 PM PST Currently in college for I.T and I'm sorta stunned that a career with so much sitting doesnt seem to talk about ergonomics. It would be nice to at least have one chapter in some book talk about it. Does this topic get any attention in the real world? On this subject what is the best ergo office chair you recomend? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Jan 2020 03:30 AM PST I've been working in IT for the last 15 years, primarily focusing on BI/data. Am at a manager level at the moment and want to progress, so am looking at what my next steps should be, what are peoples opinions of BCS membership/chartered ITP? Is it something useful or is the money better spent on certifications? [link] [comments]  |
| Good ways of crashing back into IT at 32 years old? Posted: 02 Jan 2020 05:46 PM PST I feel I shot myself in the foot pretty hard here. With the day off yesterday I got the chance to crunch numbers and future forecast. I realized that I gotta jump ship from my current career if I ever want to make real money. Or really I reinforced what the VP of engineering at my company has told me 3 times now. See I'm an engineering tech, not an engineer, and I have moved up the "ranks" really fast there. He has basically been telling me I'm gonna smash my head open on the concrete ceiling of engineering technology. Before you suggest it, no, I'm not interested in going back to school for EE. ---Skip this if you just want the meat---- I started fixing computers at 12 and by 16 was working on my A+ cert. I passed the hardware test but failed the software and never went back for it. Despite this I had my own little repair/instruction business as well as working the help desk at my high school for 2 years. Didn't like it, probably being young and thinking that help desk was the end-all-be-all of IT, so I abandoned IT (shot goes off). Fast forward 14 years (shot hits foot) and I'm stuck in a poor-prospects career path. I got my AAS in Electronics, worked at restaurants for a decade, and for the past year and a half have been working an electronics tech job. The job is very technical (which I love) but the pay is shit (35K) and the career tops out in the 70K range if you are lucky and don't mind risking death daily. 50-55K is a more typical "end game" salary.
SO given all that, what would be my best course of attack here? Quit 9-5, go all out school and certs? Certs later? Which certs in which order? Maybe get A+ and then get a help desk job with school at night? Keep current job(s) and just school at night, certs later? I know these sound like personal decisions but I'm trying to feel out what others who did something similar's experience was. I'm not sure what I would specialize in yet, but I figure I can feel that out later. I have deep feeling of having "missed out" and now feeling pressure to get in as fast as possible, but perhaps this is misplaced? Thanks for the help guys [link] [comments]  |
| A crisis of confidence - would appreciate some feedback and any hard truths Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:02 PM PST I am writing this in hopes of getting some feedback and context for my current job, where I feel overwhelmed and out of my depth. I have been working in IT for 8 years now. I am not sure if that is a long time or a short time, but I feel like it is an amount of time that should be sufficient to have established a certain level of baseline competence. I have mostly spent my career working as a solo IT guy at creative production studios. On a couple of occasions, I've had the opportunity to work with someone more senior than myself, but most of that time it's just been me trying to teach myself and learn what I could figure was important and best practices to know. I did not go to school for comp sci or IT, nor do I have any certifications at this point, though I've studied through online courses meant for certs, like the CCNA, some of the basic AWS stuff, and some RHEL stuff. However, I always had a hard time really figuring out what was important to learn long term versus just learning bits and bobs to accomplish a task I needed to figure out in the moment. I feel like over time I had achieved a certain level of competency at managing Windows and Mac fleets, dealing with Linux servers and workstations, Windows servers, and core networking services. I had started learning to utilize salt as a means of configuration management, which I thought would really help me truly get to another level of technical skill and ability, being able to treat infrastructure as code, and help me learn to really code/script a lot more regularly. Another studio reached out to me a little more than a year ago about how they were getting acquired by a much larger company and wanted to fill a potential senior engineer position for their company. I interviewed with the head of IT for them, and he struck me as a super-competent, knowledge, and very disciplined. I really liked him and thought he could provide a more senior lead I could finally learn from and emulate. I decided to go for it, and see if I was up to the level that I thought I could be and also learn from a more complex enterprise environment once the acquisition went through. Shortly after deciding to go for this job, I was informed that the main reason they were looking for a senior-level person was that the head of IT would be leaving in a year or so, and they wanted to ensure they could train up someone to hand off the main responsibilities to. Unfortunately, not quite the scenario I had hoped it would be, but I figured it would still be a great way to learn and prove myself. Fast forward to now: my boss has left the company a couple of months ago, everything is on me to manage, and I feel completely overwhelmed by this job. Far from feeling like I am proving myself, I feel like I am constantly missing something, not knowing something, falling short, or not accomplishing things as fast as I could, and especially in comparison to my boss. I constantly am working late, and hardly sleep keeping up with everything or being worried about what is the best decision I should be making or prioritizing. I have to manage much more complex network changes than I've had to work with before while dealing with the parent company's own set of network policies and engineers, which I don't feel nearly knowledgeable enough to provide detailed instructions for. I have to help build and manage remote sites, one of which is in a foreign country, which has proven to be a much more difficult task than I had anticipated, and even trying to source equipment for that office is an arduous task. I also need to make sure I regularly ensure all the POs and invoices for the IT department is getting handled, filed, and paid properly. Track all those expenditures and then generate a budget for the next year, things which I have not had to do to this level before. All while dealing with day to day support requests. I thankfully have a junior systems guy helping me with that, but it still feels like too much for me, I have such a hard time focusing on accomplishing any particular task before something else gets dropped in front of me, demanding my attention. To add on top of all of that, the COO asked me if I could quickly draw up a plan for how to deliver a multi-office in a week or so to determine how to best migrate our main production from offices in the US and UK, to a new remote site in Mexico I had set up. I said I couldn't because I did not have the time and also because I honestly was not sure what to even propose. I had put together some costs for on-premises stuff, and they felt the costs were much too high and wanted me to figure out something else. Due to that, they were able to bring my old boss back for a bit to help consult with us, and he has suggested moving to cloud-based infrastructure and converting to VDI. This sounds exciting and cool to my ears, but also terrifying as I just plain do not have enough experience or knowledge to build-out and migrate all our infrastructure to AWS, though I would love to learn how to. It seems our company wants to have it start happening right away. I'm being clear about how I do not have the experience for this, but it increasingly feels like I am giving the impression that I am an incompetent hire who is not actually able to provide the senior level engineering capabilities and know-how that they are expecting and had been getting through my boss. At this point, I would be hard-pressed not to agree with them if they do truly feel that way. I don't know if this is a reasonable level of skill or workload to expect from a seemingly senior-level engineer, as all my experience has been solo IT guy in smaller, simpler shops. I don't really know what should be considered the baseline experience or skills needed for a senior engineer, but every time I look at similar job listings and such, I increasingly feel like that I have somehow been hired for a level of engineering that I do not actually have the requisite knowledge for. I feel like I could eventually learn and teach myself the skills needed through courses and classes, but it feels like there is so much I need to learn, and I need to know it all now, which just paralyzes me with indecision about what should I be learning. And that's even if I have the time, as it feels like I should be instead spending more and more time catching up on tasks that I didn't finish, emails I need to send, or plans that I need to draw up and document to move forward coordinating on. I have never felt more thoroughly discouraged nor unsure of myself. I am constantly anxious about the higher-ups asking me why such-and-such isn't done yet, or what the plan is for implementing all of this and when exactly it can be done by. I feel like other engineers talk with me and realize that despite me having this title of being a senior engineer, I actually am not at all qualified nor knowledgeable enough to deserve it. If I were to leave, I feel like I would have to take a substantial pay cut to work at a level that would be manageable for me at this point. My hope had been to go along with doing a more dev-ops oriented path, maybe eventually angle for a position at one of the FAANG companies, but lately I feel like I lack the skills, the mindset, or just even the raw brainpower to handle engineering and decision-making you would need to get to that kind of level, especially considering I did not go to school for tech. All I can think is that, if I do want to continue doing systems / IT work, I need to get into some sort of educational program, either through grad school or some bootcamp or something, to ensure I have the requisite skills and knowledge and provide a clearer path forward, which is seemingly increasingly something I would need to quit work to fit in and do. Either that or I just find some new career, as I can't actually cut it, or at least be the level of engineer I would like myself to be. But at the same time, I feel like by working at a place like this, it clearly makes me learn skills I am weak in, leaving me feeling quite trapped. It all seems like a lose-lose one way or the other. I am sorry for the long-winded post, I just have a lot on my mind and appreciate anyone who was willing to read through that and offer any thoughts that they might have. It might be that I really am slacking and not applying myself hard enough. I just feel I need something to help give me context as to what I need to improve or learn. Much thanks to everyone who does take the time to read this and reply. TL:DR I feel like a giant imposter, taking on a position that I am not actually qualified for, and am now dealing with a scope of work and intensity that I do not think I can handle, but seemingly my boss and presumably other engineers were able to manage, so I can only think I am deficient. [link] [comments]  |
| Should I apply for jobs that require experience even as a graduate with no experience? Posted: 02 Jan 2020 04:05 PM PST For example, applying for a junior software development role that requires experiences of 2 years? At first I thought I should only stick to applying for graduate or entry level positions but after realizing the extent to which entry level jobs are flooded and after watching this video I'm thinking I should just apply for almost anything.....? Any thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
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| Any of you have computer science degree and work in the IT networking/system admin industry? Posted: 03 Jan 2020 01:31 AM PST Hi All, As title, any of you got a computer science degree but ended up doing IT support/networking/system admin/security job instead of being a software developer? If yes, could you please share the reason why? What do you like in networking or dislike about being a software developer? I have a computer science degree over a decade ago but now start to think whether to switch to IT networking/system admin or not. But then I feel like I throwing myself into the unknown cuz what I learned back in the college was coding and theory and feel like starting from zero if I do networking/system admin. I'm approaching 40 years old and think maybe networking/system admin would be a better career path for me due to strong ageism issue with software development. My latest development related job in test automation was a whole team of young fresh grad(or 3-4 years exp) indian workers and I feel myself so slow compare to them and thinking maybe I should switch to something else like networking/system admin. Any of you have a coding education background but end up working in the IT support/networking/system admin/security field? Please share your story, thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2020 07:57 PM PST So asking for a friend, He works at T-Mobile and they offer him basically full tuition coverage. However, they list mostly for profits universities that have iffy histories (University of Phoenix, cough) Here are the non-profits: University of Maryland Global Campus Purdue University Global College for America at Southern Hampshire University If you want the full list of colleges and exact tuition coverage policy, it will be here He is looking at Capella University which I did not prefer since it is for profit. However, he is basically covered, unless they snuck in hidden fees like I seen in some sites where they charge you fees to attempt exams, to attend graduation, for extra class materials etc. As an employer, how does a for profit university degree look like on a resume (and specifically Capella Uni) Do you care if they have experience and certificates? Would you prefer a non-profit a lot more or would they look the same since they are both online? Are degrees just seen a check off the checklist for IT and either or doesn't matter? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| How much do you pay for health insurance through your job? Posted: 02 Jan 2020 05:02 PM PST I work for a private company, and they offered benefits but it's crazy expensive. Its $122 a check. [link] [comments]  |
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