IT Career Paths - Certifications and Interviews - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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DIY
You have a lot of good points, I got started in IT around the same time you did. Started with server 2000 back in the day, and started working with computer repair. To move past that point you need to really put yourself out there, get to know people in the industry, talk the talk, really familiarize yourself with as many technologies as possible, and be willing to take risks. Even then, IT is a constant learning battle. The company I was with for a very long time recently decided they no longer need IT and everything was going in the cloud, so away we went along with 250 other jobs. That-s the way the industry is, it-s fast moving. Now what I-m seeing is even industry certs aren-t even enough these days. A lot of companies I applied for I was automatically disqualified for the position because they wanted someone with a masters degree in computer science or related engineering field. It-s crazy if you want to get paid more than 50k a year you really need more than 10-15 years experience even. Heck, just as an example I applied for a job that was looking for someone with 7-10 years experience with kubernetes. If you know anything about kubernetes, you will know there isn-t a single person alive with that much experience lol. That-s at least the way the job market is around here having just spent 6 months looking for a job. You either take an entry level helpdesk position, or learn some super obscure programming language or learn database administration or something. Those are the trends in seeing right now in corporate IT. Unless you have all the fancy industry buzz words in your resume like dev ops, cloud, big data, and so in good luck out there! The hard part is that all these technologies are so new, you need to dedicate all of your free time away from the office just keeping up in industry trends to stay relevant. Now I-m not trying to scare people away from IT,I think it-s a great field to get into but make sure you know what you are getting into, and be willing to learn new things constantly. I hardly know anyone who stays in one place for very long anymore just with companies seeing IT as a cost center instead of a business enabler.
Just fix it in production. Yep heard that too many times! Haha!
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You have a lot of good points, I got started in IT around the same time you did. Started with server 2000 back in the day, and started working with computer repair. To move past that point you need to really put yourself out there, get to know people in the industry, talk the talk, really familiarize yourself with as many technologies as possible, and be willing to take risks. Even then, IT is a constant learning battle. The company I was with for a very long time recently decided they no longer need IT and everything was going in the cloud, so away we went along with 250 other jobs. That-s the way the industry is, it-s fast moving. Now what I-m seeing is even industry certs aren-t even enough these days. A lot of companies I applied for I was automatically disqualified for the position because they wanted someone with a masters degree in computer science or related engineering field. It-s crazy if you want to get paid more than 50k a year you really need more than 10-15 years experience even. Heck, just as an example I applied for a job that was looking for someone with 7-10 years experience with kubernetes. If you know anything about kubernetes, you will know there isn-t a single person alive with that much experience lol. That-s at least the way the job market is around here having just spent 6 months looking for a job. You either take an entry level helpdesk position, or learn some super obscure programming language or learn database administration or something. Those are the trends in seeing right now in corporate IT. Unless you have all the fancy industry buzz words in your resume like dev ops, cloud, big data, and so in good luck out there! The hard part is that all these technologies are so new, you need to dedicate all of your free time away from the office just keeping up in industry trends to stay relevant. Now I-m not trying to scare people away from IT,I think it-s a great field to get into but make sure you know what you are getting into, and be willing to learn new things constantly. I hardly know anyone who stays in one place for very long anymore just with companies seeing IT as a cost center instead of a business enabler.
Just fix it in production. Yep heard that too many times! Haha!
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greenGamer2
Thank you so much, Chris!
I've just finished my apprenticeship as an IT engineer in early 2018 and started my first full time IT job.
I was working for a company as the Sysadmin under one person and got into all kind of topics, kind of your version -jack of all trades-.
But the issue was I was just working in an windows only environment for a small company without much room to grow, so
I just applied for a better job and got it with much more perspective for my career path, when it gets to certs and also variety of topics (aswell as pay :P).
As you say, when you are first starting out, you need to get those certs to start snowballing your career.
I'll keep watching your videos and really appreciate the variety of topics you are actually covering.
When some other young folks ask me how to get into IT enterprise I always tell them to be open for new topics and never respond
with words like -No, I can't do that- and rather -I have to admit that I don't have enough experience in this regards, but I will do my very best
to research this certain topic and do my tests untill I am confident with it-.
From my perspective it always payed off.
Regards from germany!
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Thank you so much, Chris!
I've just finished my apprenticeship as an IT engineer in early 2018 and started my first full time IT job.
I was working for a company as the Sysadmin under one person and got into all kind of topics, kind of your version -jack of all trades-.
But the issue was I was just working in an windows only environment for a small company without much room to grow, so
I just applied for a better job and got it with much more perspective for my career path, when it gets to certs and also variety of topics (aswell as pay :P).
As you say, when you are first starting out, you need to get those certs to start snowballing your career.
I'll keep watching your videos and really appreciate the variety of topics you are actually covering.
When some other young folks ask me how to get into IT enterprise I always tell them to be open for new topics and never respond
with words like -No, I can't do that- and rather -I have to admit that I don't have enough experience in this regards, but I will do my very best
to research this certain topic and do my tests untill I am confident with it-.
From my perspective it always payed off.
Regards from germany!
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Bert
Of course another important path into ICT is through College or University. I'm from Europe! I did College in Electronics in 1967 and in 1973 a 3-year evening course on Software Engineering (2x week 4 hours) from a well known University. I worked as prototype tester of main frames, Operating System designer, Software Development Manager (>100 developers) and Chief Architect in a large high tech organization.
When I was hiring people, I hired for 80 to 90% people with a college or university degree. Sometimes I hired other people and sometimes it has been a failure and half of the times it has been a success. Working free lance as chief architect, I met a lot of Software Engineers from large EU and US companies and almost all had a University Degree.
If you want to develop software and have a well paid career, go at least to College and preferably University.
Remember:
Everybody can build a block-hut, but few people are able to create a skyscraper.
Everybody can write a program, but few people can create e.g. a safe Air Traffic Management System.
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Of course another important path into ICT is through College or University. I'm from Europe! I did College in Electronics in 1967 and in 1973 a 3-year evening course on Software Engineering (2x week 4 hours) from a well known University. I worked as prototype tester of main frames, Operating System designer, Software Development Manager (>100 developers) and Chief Architect in a large high tech organization.
When I was hiring people, I hired for 80 to 90% people with a college or university degree. Sometimes I hired other people and sometimes it has been a failure and half of the times it has been a success. Working free lance as chief architect, I met a lot of Software Engineers from large EU and US companies and almost all had a University Degree.
If you want to develop software and have a well paid career, go at least to College and preferably University.
Remember:
Everybody can build a block-hut, but few people are able to create a skyscraper.
Everybody can write a program, but few people can create e.g. a safe Air Traffic Management System.
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Booming
Learn to fly. That made me very much less nervous.
I have had my first job in it. I live in Germany, just did my abitur and got that job for working until I start studying. I learned much. I went in without much knowledge about docker, Sama (for Active directory), but I had desktop linux knowledge to the point that I was pretty familiar with bash scripting, networking. It worked, although it took me time to understand active directory. That was a bad time though, because I used a docker container which just did not work at all. It took me some time to figure that out. I dont know what that guy did or how he got that number of downloads, he had like 100k in the docker hub. Anyways, I fixed it. I am interested in seeing if he adds a license to his container so I can give him a pull request with the fixes...
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Learn to fly. That made me very much less nervous.
I have had my first job in it. I live in Germany, just did my abitur and got that job for working until I start studying. I learned much. I went in without much knowledge about docker, Sama (for Active directory), but I had desktop linux knowledge to the point that I was pretty familiar with bash scripting, networking. It worked, although it took me time to understand active directory. That was a bad time though, because I used a docker container which just did not work at all. It took me some time to figure that out. I dont know what that guy did or how he got that number of downloads, he had like 100k in the docker hub. Anyways, I fixed it. I am interested in seeing if he adds a license to his container so I can give him a pull request with the fixes...
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CJ
I'm 20 years old. I got my first internship, with a company without any certifications, just shadowing and working with many people in the IT Department, to help decide what I want to do. I'm going to school now for Computer Systems & Network Tech. It's a nice program that has introduced Networking, Linux, Windows Server, Computer Repair. Many other great things. In addition, I work as Desktop Support Technician at my school. It doesn't really take certifications to get a entry level job in IT. I agree if you want a better job or to get promoted certifications really matter. I'm looking into being a System Admin. Or a Network Tech/Engineer of some sorts. I'm thinking about going into cybersecurity after a few years of being a system admin.
Thank you for all your videos, -Chris Titus Tech
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I'm 20 years old. I got my first internship, with a company without any certifications, just shadowing and working with many people in the IT Department, to help decide what I want to do. I'm going to school now for Computer Systems & Network Tech. It's a nice program that has introduced Networking, Linux, Windows Server, Computer Repair. Many other great things. In addition, I work as Desktop Support Technician at my school. It doesn't really take certifications to get a entry level job in IT. I agree if you want a better job or to get promoted certifications really matter. I'm looking into being a System Admin. Or a Network Tech/Engineer of some sorts. I'm thinking about going into cybersecurity after a few years of being a system admin.
Thank you for all your videos, -Chris Titus Tech
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fourdotsYT
If you go into IT via Windows certifications / experience you'll work with windows for about 10 years before you can convince anyone to convert anything to linux, or even get an opportunity to work and get experience on commercial linux-based servers.
There are plenty of linux-first based certifications, e.g.:
- LINUX+ CompTIA. ...
- RHCE- RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEER. ...
- GCUX: GIAC CERTIFIED UNIX SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR. ...
- ORACLE LINUX OCA & OCP. ...
- LPI (LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE) CERTIFICATIONS
etc.
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If you go into IT via Windows certifications / experience you'll work with windows for about 10 years before you can convince anyone to convert anything to linux, or even get an opportunity to work and get experience on commercial linux-based servers.
There are plenty of linux-first based certifications, e.g.:
- LINUX+ CompTIA. ...
- RHCE- RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEER. ...
- GCUX: GIAC CERTIFIED UNIX SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR. ...
- ORACLE LINUX OCA & OCP. ...
- LPI (LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE) CERTIFICATIONS
etc.
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ermonski
I was a SAP support specialist and it was quite a technical role talking to end-users which is fun since they use the same language I do. However I got laid off after 8 years in that company and now I am doing NetSuite implementation. The company is good and the technology is great however it's 80% customer facing and it's less technical. I plan to get out in a month or two and go back to SAP doing more technical work. I am quite an introvert (however me self-declaring this invalidates it lol)
Am I doomed?
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I was a SAP support specialist and it was quite a technical role talking to end-users which is fun since they use the same language I do. However I got laid off after 8 years in that company and now I am doing NetSuite implementation. The company is good and the technology is great however it's 80% customer facing and it's less technical. I plan to get out in a month or two and go back to SAP doing more technical work. I am quite an introvert (however me self-declaring this invalidates it lol)
Am I doomed?
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Fady
A great video , i need your advice if you may , i just got my CCNA and a lot of people are telling me to start learning about servers to round up my knowledge , so my question is do i need to learn about servers and if so which certification should i go for , after microsoft retired the MCSA , should i go for a linux cert and if so which one to start with , please help a confused newbie thank you so much
note that i don't have any work experience but i am planning on studying for certifications while working
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A great video , i need your advice if you may , i just got my CCNA and a lot of people are telling me to start learning about servers to round up my knowledge , so my question is do i need to learn about servers and if so which certification should i go for , after microsoft retired the MCSA , should i go for a linux cert and if so which one to start with , please help a confused newbie thank you so much
note that i don't have any work experience but i am planning on studying for certifications while working
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Hadwin
So did I get lucky? I will start a apprenticeship in 1 week as an IT systemintegrator(school certificate) and the company I will learn in put me in the Systemadminstration Team. I am doing a internship right now there too.
I can not believe how lucky I got. D:
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So did I get lucky? I will start a apprenticeship in 1 week as an IT systemintegrator(school certificate) and the company I will learn in put me in the Systemadminstration Team. I am doing a internship right now there too.
I can not believe how lucky I got. D:
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Eduardo
The -1- certification that will pay the most and is very challenging is PMI (Project Management) certification, , it's very tough to get and requires a lot of studying to pass the test, and then diversify/specialize in IT Projects. You will be set for a career.
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The -1- certification that will pay the most and is very challenging is PMI (Project Management) certification, , it's very tough to get and requires a lot of studying to pass the test, and then diversify/specialize in IT Projects. You will be set for a career.
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