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Originally Posted by mgellan
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Any one who works for me (Director of ICT for a School Division) can pass the A+ on Monday after studying over the weekend. Network+, Security+, etc. are all very baseline certs for the bottom fee.. er... entry level employees of the ICT world, Deskside Support / Service Desk Techs (or guys assembling whiteboxes in the back of a computer store). Good money compared to delivering pizza I guess.
Get a 2 year Community College IT diploma then try to find someone to fund certs in SAN and Virtualization (if you like overtime!), or get a 4 year degree in CompSci and go program in Java if you want to make nearly six figures...
And work on soft skills - technical competencies will get you a job but soft skills (communication, negotiation, requirements elicitation, etc.) will be the rocket under your ass to get you places. Lots of otherwise smart people are glass ceiling-ed into a cube pumping out code til they miss a technology curve and retire as the only guy who knows COBOL (or whatever dead language you last ramped up on) because of their abysmal communications skills. And learn to spell [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] As a few people have said here, networking can help you. Join Toastmasters!
Just my $0.02 but then again I'm the guy on the other side of the hiring table [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Regards,
Mg |
I strongly agree with the overall point of this post. Having the ability to bullshit/communicate will take you to places your skills never will. Shit many of my first jobs right out of high school (skipped college due to it being a massive waste of my time and money.) I landed only cause I can talk bullshit. Now that I think about it, 90% of the jobs in my past I had no idea about the technology I was applying to be working on. I studied on it over a weekend, used my charisma and bullshit to sweet talk me the job during the interview. Once on the job is was sink or swim while getting paid.