IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

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is it a good idea to leave a desktop support contract early for a deployment tech role (slightly better pay) ? The Desktop contract was supposed to last a year but now they’re saying its gonna end earlier, the deployment contract is for the next 4 months?

deployment? continuous integration? automation? scripting?
 

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And everyone...I'm tryna get cert'd up next year...

I'm looking at this:


I wanted to know what other languages or certs I can/should pair this with...

Talk to me brehs...
 

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I'm surprised it isn't enough
From my experience it's not. Most courses scratch the surface of a topic, but not nearly enough to even be a novice. IT students need to put in work outside the classroom to become marketable. I've been on interview panels where most have no experience outside of class labs. (but that doesn't stop them from putting it on their resumes... which doesn't look good when questioned on the topics). To show you are in it because of legit interest and not just the potential pay, certs and real hands-on goes a long way during the vetting process.
 

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Got an offer for 65k salary plus overtime and bonuses at the end of the year that can push me over 70k


I was making 10 dollars an hour 4 years ago breh:wow:
Good shyt. Now bookmark this post and revisit it in 2-3 years. If you keep your grind up you'll most likely be looking at this salary like :russell:

You'll see multiple examples of brehs in this very thread who've grown over the years. Use it and motivation and keep pushing.
 

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I did an internship for two summers for my grandads company he work in the administration of, it was helping the IT help desk position, I’m trying to get a IT cert, anyone with more knowledge know which ones to get my local state college has a couple IT certs
 

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Started my training in Identity and Access Management training this week :wow: really looking into the odds of parlaying this into a full fledged cybersecurity career.
Full time as of last week :obama:
I was nervous the first day but I settled in. Today was my breakthrough, I felt like a damn ninja :banderas: really getting into the groove and liking it
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I did an internship for two summers for my grandads company he work in the administration of, it was helping the IT help desk position, I’m trying to get a IT cert, anyone with more knowledge know which ones to get my local state college has a couple IT certs
IT prep courses are just that, prep. I took a few as part of my AA, but those certificates held no weight. If I were starting out, I would skip that and directly to studying for the cert you want.
 

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Had an interview today which I felt really good about. They want to see my portfolio but I'm having difficulty because my work is on old computer and I used heroku to host and they deleted my apps. I'm hoping this doesn't hurt me to bad as a portfolio wasn't required. One of the questions they asked was what forums I use to discuss tech and stuff and I almost said the coli but I know that would have been a bad look haha. I got a third interview on Monday.
 
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