IT Career Thanks Everyone, got my first job in IT as Help Desk Support!! |
- Thanks Everyone, got my first job in IT as Help Desk Support!!
- Does anyone have a second job? Been thinking of getting a second IT job or something unrelated to IT.
- What do you call more than one computer mouse? Mice? Mouses?
- I'm seeing the doors open - and I hope I am playing my cards right!
- How do I voice my displeasure and decreasing morale?
- Has Covid 19 changed the way job interviews are done?
- Career paths for an AWS CSE? IT career goals in general?
- Would really appreciate any advice regarding my resume - attempting to transition into IT.
- Please anyone suggest me some ideas for project in cybersecurity
- Masters at UF's MS Information Systems and Operations Management or another Bachelors
- Considering moving from sysadmin to technical analyst. Looking for input.
- What are your thoughts on employers refraining their employees from taking their certificates with them when they resign?
- ISO advice - Looking to start my Career in a cyber security role other Tech related
- Architecture specialist - cloud application operations job role??
- What security certs/other certs should I start pursuing?
- Give your suggestions please, how should I move further?
- Should I move to another company for same job position?
| Thanks Everyone, got my first job in IT as Help Desk Support!! Posted: 02 Jul 2021 09:12 AM PDT I was given a written offer to start an IT Help Desk position for the County School District. This would be my first job in the IT industry. Wanted to thank this subreddit and the people who helped me create my resume and offer so much valuable advice on how to get started. I know working for the County is not glamorous, but the experience is worth its weight in gold. Plus i'm a year away from graduating with my Bachelors and working on getting my Sec+ and Net+ soon too. As for you all still looking for that first help desk job. Don't give up hope! Now is the absolute BEST time to look for that job. So many agencies and companies are hiring, wether in private sector or public sector. Keep on applying and keep studying! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2021 07:16 AM PDT So I'm currently working as a security analyst in Los Angeles. I have a (low) six-figure salary, which is enough to live comfortably off of, gets me by in a HCOL area like LA, and still allows me to save some money. Lately, I've been thinking of looking for a second job just to have more disposable income - for family trips, a fun car, and to eventually buy a home. In a way, I'd hate to sacrifice time with my child and wife, but I figure I can always request a few days off every couple of months for trips and it's perhaps a small sacrifice to make for a few years until I eventually move up to a more comfortable income. So I was just wondering, is there anyone here in a similar situation that's currently working two jobs? Are both jobs full time or one full and one part time? Are both jobs in IT? And would you recommend it? I was thinking either a remote SOC or NOC job would be cool, low stress, and fairly easy to manage. I'm also thinking it would be cool to look for something else, totally unrelated to IT, but I'm afraid my earning potential isn't as great considering it'd be outside of my area of expertise. I haven't seen anyone discuss this on here before so just thought I'd see if anyone here is currently doing this or just what anyone's thoughts are in general. [link] [comments]  |
| What do you call more than one computer mouse? Mice? Mouses? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:26 AM PDT Heated debate going on in our department right now about what you would call more than one computer mouse. Is it computer mice, or computer mouses? Need the internet to weigh in. What are your thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
| I'm seeing the doors open - and I hope I am playing my cards right! Posted: 02 Jul 2021 07:34 AM PDT So a quick TL;DR of my background: about 2 years helpdesk experience (8 months private healthcare company, 15 months DoD helpdesk w/ clearance), 1 year cybersecurity experience (analyst-type work) with DoE Q (DoD TS equivalent) clearance. (ISC)2 SSCP, Security+, CEH are probably my biggest certs. MS in Cybersecurity and IA completed this year. My current major career goal would be to land myself a job in national laboratory I live near, working as a Cybersecurity Engineer at least. I have been applying for jobs for about a month and a half now, at first with no luck. After about a month, I interviewed for and accepted a job offer with a government contracting company for a position that would have me working directly with the labs - exposure so my name could potentially be recommended and/or recognized when applying later down the line, as I am sure the candidate pools for these jobs are huge. Only after accepting this offer did more opportunities start arising. I have interviewed with 2 more government contracting companies and am waiting to hear if either of them want to bring me in for one final interview. In the meantime, I got yet another call to interview for a cybersecurity position with the labs! Exciting, right? They scheduled the interview fairly quickly - literally the next day, which I was excited about. I don't know how I feel about how the interview went - I can sometimes read a person's tone of language and gauge if I think they liked me or not. None of the 4 interviewers really gave me any indication. Now, they say it could be up to 2 weeks before I hear back from them. The only problem with this is I have accepted a job offer for a job that starts just under 2 weeks from this interview time, and put in notice at my current job. If I happen to hear back before July 12th, and get offered the job, I can probably just withdraw my acceptance of the job I already accepted, and maybe worse case scenario, miss 1-2 weeks of pay in between jobs (not sure how soon or far out the start date would be if I did get offered this job). And to complicate things further - I just got an email this morning from a different department of the labs wanting to setup a phone interview for a different position. Now, the thing is, the position with the labs I already interviewed for is kind of the lowest rung on the ladder. As far as I can tell from job postings and the associated requirements, job levels go from Technologist -> Engineer -> R&D, for the most part. I interviewed for a Technologist level role, and the email this morning would be for an R&D level role. I am not too sure how competing interviews and/or potentially job offers from the same company (albeit different departments) would play out. I just don't want one potential opportunity to interfere with the other - whether the hiring manager is doing it out of respect for the other department, or any other reason they may have. Sorry for the wall of text. I wanted to keep it brief but my mind rambles a lot. Things seem to be moving quick right now and I'm starting to feel like it's getting to be a tangled mess. All this because all of this new interview requests/activity started happening after I accepted a job offer and put in my notice. What are your thoughts? Have you ever been in a similar situation? Basically I'm not looking for a "right" answer, but hoping to get some clarity on how to play this out without a) ending up without a job altogether , b) starting a new job and leaving within a few weeks because I end up getting a job at the labs, that I am really after, or c) having to accept the lower level "technologist" role and miss out on the R&D opportunity because of this. [link] [comments]  |
| How do I voice my displeasure and decreasing morale? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 11:07 AM PDT This is honestly the first time I've encountered this without actively being ready to leave my position. The workload has gotten increased since people have left on our team and management has decided not to fill those roles. I have become extremely frustrated and others on my team have as well. How do I voice this without coming off as entitled/crybaby/lazy whatever you want to call it? I'm not trying to take anything out on upper management but I don't think they understand how much stressful the job has become. TLDR: how do I voice my displeasure and morale decrease to higher ups without coming off as entitled/lazy. [link] [comments]  |
| Has Covid 19 changed the way job interviews are done? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 09:20 AM PDT "Has Covid 19 changed the way job interviews are done?" So I haven't been applying for anything for a while now basically because of Covid last year and a few other things. When I was applying for jobs the main way interviews would be done were Phone, video or face to face, and generally if you got a phone interview they would always make you come in for a face to face if they liked your first impression and you were a chance at getting it. Anyway, I guess my question really is do business like asking you to come in for a face to face without knowing what your past medical history is? For eg. do you get a major Covid grilling before you can come in for an interview? Do video interviews get used a lot more now? Thanks :) [link] [comments]  |
| Career paths for an AWS CSE? IT career goals in general? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 12:47 PM PDT In the SDE field, I usually look at the L3-L10 engineering levels to understand the stepping stones in a career path. But in IT I am a little lost as to where things go. From posts I have read, it seems like a CSE reaches solution architect, SME, or TAM and that's it. Are there L7+ equivalent roles in IT? If I come from a development background (mostly game development) are there formal positions where I can leverage both these skill sets? Or is it up to me to carve my own way at that point? When I refer to these positions as goals it's simply because I can't think of a more appropriate word. I am not trying to say the point of a career in IT is to reach these points and be done with it. I ask this because I want to always have things to aim for academically/professionally; the worst feeling for me is achieving something and wondering "what now?". [link] [comments]  |
| Would really appreciate any advice regarding my resume - attempting to transition into IT. Posted: 02 Jul 2021 12:09 PM PDT Hi everyone! I'm trying to switch careers after being a private piano teacher/studio owner, as well as a freelancer graphic/web/content designer. Any advice would be appreciated - I have no experience and am trying to apply to some very entry-level help desk positions. (Btw there is a weird issue with the apostrophe/s at the end of some words that I still need to fix). Thank you so much! [link] [comments]  |
| Please anyone suggest me some ideas for project in cybersecurity Posted: 02 Jul 2021 11:33 AM PDT I know it's not place to ask something I need to do. But I really need a help I want make my final year project related to cybersecurity. I am new to cybersecurity, so I don't have any good ideas for project. I have to submit mini project in 3/4 months and then evaluate into main project and submit in 10 month Can you suggest me some ideas that can be useful for mini project and I can evaluate it into main project. I will be learning mostly all of things alongside project.so if possible suggest any guide tutorial too. I want something that can be really useful after graduation.something great. Thank you :) [link] [comments]  |
| Masters at UF's MS Information Systems and Operations Management or another Bachelors Posted: 02 Jul 2021 11:24 AM PDT I recently found out I got accepted to a MS in Information Systems at UF somehow. I graduated a few years ago with a biology degree but I have been doing coursera and audacity on the side to learn basic programming. I was wondering if I should do this masters or do a second bachelors degree. Money is not really an issue. I'd appreciate any insight. Path 1: UF Masters Path 2: Second bachelors-> Eventually MBA down the line [link] [comments]  |
| Considering moving from sysadmin to technical analyst. Looking for input. Posted: 02 Jul 2021 09:06 AM PDT I have been with my company for 8 years and the last 5 of those have been as a sys admin. The Sr. Sys Admin left the company right before Covid hit and for the last 18 months I have assumed that role. Now that we have weathered the Covid storm I asked for a title change and a raise comparable to what my predecessor was making and the company is giving me the runaround, so I've begun to look elsewhere. They also said that all employees would have to come back to onsite work full time. Right now I am the sole person responsible for our VDI environment, all our compute and storage infrastructure/engineering. And backup and recovery system, including conducting quarterly DR tests. I really enjoy the disaster recovery function of my job. I applied to a remote job at a small MSP as a disaster recovery technical analyst and have had a few interviews. The job sounds very interesting and it is something I think I have the skills and passion for but it is much less technical than what I am doing now. It would essentially be more of a project management role where I would serve as the laison between several tech people on the client side. I would be planning and analyzing the DR testing rather than actually sitting in the chair and pushing the buttons. Does anyone else have experience making a similar career shift that might offer up some advice? I don't particularly enjoy being a sysadmin and all the stress that entails. I do worry that I'd be limiting my career earnings potential getting out of the technical side though. Any input is greatly appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:41 AM PDT I work for a small MSP based in the US and to maintain its partnership with techs like Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, etc we have to retain certain number of employee certificates. For example, Citrix would require that we have three guys with CCA-N and one guy with CCA-V, etc. Because of this, the company is thinking of making it a rule that any certificate that an employee attained by the company paying for the class, review time (during work hours), and exam, they can't take with them when they leave the company. So they're planning on having them sign a contract saying that if we paid for this cert, we now have the right to use it whatever way we want to. I understand the company's reasoning because they did pay for it and it is a requirement to maintain business with these techs, but also these are certificates in the name of the employee. These are their ownerships (even though they would sign a contract giving up the rights). My question is how legal is this? And also, how realistic? Cause the certificates are in the employees' names so realistically, they can always just contact these techs and have the certs dissociated from the company. The only way I'm seeing this would be realistic for the company is if they take this to court with the signed contract if the employee takes the certificate against the signed contract. Thoughts? Or have you had any experience similar to this? [link] [comments]  |
| ISO advice - Looking to start my Career in a cyber security role other Tech related Posted: 02 Jul 2021 04:55 AM PDT Hello all, apologize in advance for the long post I am currently working as a contractor at the moment in a Tech non Tech job, when I applied for this position I assumed it would be a HelpDesk role but it is really Switchboard operator for a small Tech company for about 18$ hr (The company also keeps my clearance active and i work remote) nevertheless, I have my A.S in IT and currently 2 semesters away from my B.S. in Cybersecurity and networks. I have been actively studying for my Sy0-601 given it is critical In order to work in the Gov. I would like to try and take my 601 either before I graduate or slightly after, I am currently taking 16 credits at the moment. I was offered a SysAdmin role at 80k but I have almost 0 hands on experience (other than what I learned so far inUniversity and from my Associates) My current company offered me Helpdesk ll once I get my Sec+ I believe at 25hr. My question is what should I look for upon graduation and when I pass my 601. I hear all the time do not apply positions you are over qualified for but I would like to start making 55k+ in my next position. I was looking into other positions such as Junior Cyber Analyst instead of applying for the help desk position at my current place of employment. (Any other career advice / how to get hands on exp/ what skills to practice would be appreciated) [link] [comments]  |
| Architecture specialist - cloud application operations job role?? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 04:03 AM PDT Hello everyone, I have joined as a associate and have been assigned job role "Architecture specialist - cloud application operations". Can anybody explain what will I learn what will be my day to day role and is good for career? [link] [comments]  |
| What security certs/other certs should I start pursuing? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 07:12 AM PDT Hi all, As the title mentions, I'm looking into different types of certs I can pursue with my current role. Background about me: Worked a couple of months as an IT Auditor with a focus in Cyber/infrastructure Did two internships related to info/cyber sec Taught a class at my University regarding intro to computers, web platforms, security and networking Currently working as an Incident Response Analyst at my uni (Reaching 6 month mark) Have passed the CEH (so is CompTIA Sec necessary?) Completed a Masters in Cybersecurity. Doing a second Masters in Data Science/IT Mgmt (uni is paying full tuition reimbursement) (wanted to get an overall foundation of IT) I learn stuff in my free time sometimes. I'm probably answering my own question but was looking at GSEC or CySA+. Possibly looking at Cloud/AWS certs. Or do I not need certs going forward if I have the experience? (Right now I'm still entry level) Not sure how relevant each cert is going to be if I have a certain number of years of exp or the education already. Only looking to take CISSP once I have 4 years of exp (since CEH counts for 1 yr) Any advice appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Give your suggestions please, how should I move further? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 03:52 AM PDT |
| Should I move to another company for same job position? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 02:59 AM PDT I have been working for 3 years in a fintech company. I am one of the experts in that firm for my area of work. I am happy with the job, though it is a bit boring and repetititve. It is product based so there is no new stuff or room to grow and experience new technologies. I was contacted by another firm that is interested in me. They are offering me a job that is same position (java developer) and same salary. But the company is service based and they have different projects so there would be more room to grow and learn new technologies. I don't know if I should accept this or not. I am comfortable at my current job though it is a bit boring, but at the same time I don't want to get stuck there. [link] [comments]  |
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