David_TheMan
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2 weeks notice and you are good.Forgot if I asked, but anyone ever leave a Job in under 6 months?
Did you burn bridges and go ghost or put in formal 2 weeks?
IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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How long have you been at the job? And why are you leaving so soon?Forgot if I asked, but anyone ever leave a Job in under 6 months?
Did you burn bridges and go ghost or put in formal 2 weeks?
I'm trying to leave mine because it's just too low level, It won't help my career at all. But it pays really well.
David_TheMan
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stay until you get a better offer for what you want and then leave.
You don't owe anyone anything and if you are advancing and leave the right way, no one is going to fault you for progressing.
I need to study to reach the next level and I'm not sure I want to stay where I'm at while I do that. I'm a contractor at a big company, so the level of access I have to systems is heavily controlled/set in stone.
David_TheMan
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I understand, best bet is just to study while you are there, study during your lunch, study when you have down time, study after work, reach out to different teams about helping in projects so you can't get exposure and apply for news jobs
If you get it 2 weeks and dip, but you have to invest in yourself,
I'm thinking about getting a few certs less so because I want a career in IT but to build up my resume for the next recession when people with technical skills will be high in demand.
I'm currently in the Business/Data/Financial Analyst sphere and I'm wondering what would be a good program from me to learn as a base level. I'm already exploring SQL but I was wondering if there any programs that would be good just to have in my back pocket. Also, programs where I can learn for free and the cert would be pretty cheap.
I'm currently in the Business/Data/Financial Analyst sphere and I'm wondering what would be a good program from me to learn as a base level. I'm already exploring SQL but I was wondering if there any programs that would be good just to have in my back pocket. Also, programs where I can learn for free and the cert would be pretty cheap.
David_TheMan
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If you are getting certs and they don't really apply to what you have experience doing its a waste, especially the certs with significant RoI because no one will care.
try to target your certs towards what you do are want to do, if there is a recession the guy who gets put on is going to be the guy with connections, not a nice resume anyway.
Got that AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Security+
Basically have a few paths to go down now with 2 years of solid IT experience and a foundational bachelor's degree. But ideally would get a security clearance which would guarantee job security
Basically have a few paths to go down now with 2 years of solid IT experience and a foundational bachelor's degree. But ideally would get a security clearance which would guarantee job security
1.5 years experience at a major financial institution maintaining internally built data warehouse applications
1 years experience at a software company providing PaaS with our software on public cloud environments
1 years experience at a software company providing PaaS with our software on public cloud environments
David_TheMan
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Congrats on getting your certs, you stay by any fed installations, with 2 years, you should be able to get into, at the least, a help desk or service desk position.
Lmao I had two developer offers out of college, I have a degree homie in Computer Engineering, sounds to me like you didn’t read or understand my posts
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Just lost my job at Comcast doing Business Class tech support for over 5 years. Prior to that I was a lab tech and library administrator at A University
Expired Certs but just tryna get a soft feel of what route I should go? Not looking for a job for so long, what’s the best websites for jobs in the tech field. I’m no crazy expert but I know my shyt enough. Is Dice and Indeed still the best websites to job hunt? Daps and reps will be given
Expired Certs but just tryna get a soft feel of what route I should go? Not looking for a job for so long, what’s the best websites for jobs in the tech field. I’m no crazy expert but I know my shyt enough. Is Dice and Indeed still the best websites to job hunt? Daps and reps will be given
David_TheMan
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Thats cool, I read your post, and I'm talking about doing what it takes to get a security clearance quickly so you can move on to what you want to do.
but hey you know it all, and have your clearance and know they process, so good luck to you.
David_TheMan
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Dice, Indeed, Monster, and linkedin.Just lost my job at Comcast doing Business Class tech support for over 5 years. Prior to that I was a lab tech and library administrator at A University
Expired Certs but just tryna get a soft feel of what route I should go? Not looking for a job for so long, what’s the best websites for jobs in the tech field. I’m no crazy expert but I know my shyt enough. Is Dice and Indeed still the best websites to job hunt? Daps and reps will be given
I'm sorry for your job loss man, I hope you go out and get it.
I had two offers last year, one was with a consulting firm working on a base and the other was to go private sector at a software company (this is 1 year after getting two offers out of college)
The consulting firm was going to have me spend 3 months working their help desk until they got me a clearance and then they were going to push me into the actual Linux admin role. I turned them down to go private sector and work with public cloud. Now I am about to interview with one of the big name software firms for a public cloud role. You don’t have to work help desk to get a clearance. If you get a job at any of the big four consulting/Accenture/Booz they will literally pay you to sit around and train yourself until they get you a security clearance. You don’t have to do an ounce of peasant help desk work. Lol @ ya life and ever having to work a legit help desk role ever. We get developer offers out of college or we aren’t at the same level. You don’t even need to have a degree to get a developer offer. I have a friend who went to Harvard, dropped out after one semester to create a company, and now works full time as a software developer. If you can build a solid website with MvC and a MEAN stack and have the code on git hub and deploy it to public cloud you will get yourself a job.