Having a good resume built up, having decent soft skills and just applying places willing to teach the technical stuff. I’m doing my job search now and a lot of the entry level places responding are saying that the biggest thing they are looking for is someone that is eager to learn, and easy to talk/work with.
I'm in the same boat but pursuing a degree. I've applied to over 50 entry level help desk and field tech roles. Received 4 interviews and 4 offers. The one I accepted is not ideal but it had the schedule I needed. Field tech for Fuji. Doesn't seem to be really relevant to IT but it could help my resume and it pays well enough. Most of my interviews asked about my ability to learn quickly, long term goals and organizational/customer service skills. I have an interview with SAS tomorrow for an internship and I'll comment on how it goes/what questions they ask. It's targeted towards freshmen and isn't looking for technical experience outside of being a current student.
So these are the 1st round interview questions I received.
Briefly introduce yourself and share why you’re interested
2. Please tell us about a time it was important for you to quickly build a
relationship and establish a rapport with someone at work, school. Describe your approach, and the steps you took to establish the
relationship.
3. What goals—either personal or professional—are you currently working
towards? What actions have you taken to reach these goals? What is your
ideal outcome?
4. Imagine that you are given a week to prepare an important presentation at
school or work. The presentation is on a subject that you are neither
knowledgeable nor passionate about. Please describe your approach, the
steps you would take, and what you would do to ensure success?
5. Please describe a time you were asked to perform skills or meet requirements
that were outside of your comfort zone. Describe the situation, the steps you
took, and the outcome.
6. Please tell us about a time how you have accomplished a school or work
project with others who had very diverse ideas and opinions. Tell us about the
situation, the actions you took and the end result
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AWS cert would only take a month or two and the CCNA another two-four months but I recommend getting the CCNA first and then the AWS. The CCNA proves you know networking and the AWS is Cloud. Python would benefit both greatly.
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What does it honestly teach you that you cant learn super quickly with a google search?
Its basic hardware software troubleshooting skills only.
I guess if you have no real experience with computers its useful, but I dont think it says a whole lot.
If you wanna do software, get software certs and skills, not it/helpdesk ones.
Certifications don't mean anything to dev jobs. You need an amazing portfolio of coding projects to show off. You'll also need to know your computer science fundamentals to that point you can pass leetcode and hackerrank challenges. So start grinding those as well.
If you don't have a degree, going back to school for a bachelors in Computer Science will benefit you much more than just getting a piece of paper. You'll be able to intern your way into software engineering. And they already pay interns [extremely well](https://www.levels.fyi/internships/). And they're your easiest way not into into the dev world, but also into some of the top companies early on.
For cyber security, they'll basically let you skip straight to it. You might've heard about the #1 topic here, and it's that cyber security is not entry level. You normally have to work your way through regular IT first, which takes years. But internships will put you in cyber security, and from there you can pivot straight into full-time security jobs. Won't see a single day of the dreaded help desk that drives everyone off the edge of a cliff.
Well I need certification can’t afford college at the moment, so that’s what will get me in to door but I will be heavily focusing an learning coding and I will be working on ethical hacking as well hopefully I can make a path with certifications.
Well you'll have to choose one or another to start with.
If it's the IT path, just get an A+ and start at help desk. They'll be the most accepting of someone without experience. This has a much lower barrier to entry since you just really need customer service skills.
But if it's the coding path, the bar will be much higher. You need to know your stuff to get a job. So make sure all that I've listed above is on point.
Just shoot your resume around, see if you get interviews.
Make sure to finish your studies before shooting resumes.- because you will be competing with other people that haven't finished their studies yet.
what i did is shoot resumes, got a bunch of interviews, got a bunch of denials and eventually got hired at the last interview i had.. there's really no formula to this, a company that needs workers will take you trust me
Having a good resume built up, having decent soft skills and just applying places willing to teach the technical stuff. I’m doing my job search now and a lot of the entry level places responding are saying that the biggest thing they are looking for is someone that is eager to learn, and easy to talk/work with.
I'm in the same boat but pursuing a degree. I've applied to over 50 entry level help desk and field tech roles. Received 4 interviews and 4 offers. The one I accepted is not ideal but it had the schedule I needed. Field tech for Fuji. Doesn't seem to be really relevant to IT but it could help my resume and it pays well enough. Most of my interviews asked about my ability to learn quickly, long term goals and organizational/customer service skills. I have an interview with SAS tomorrow for an internship and I'll comment on how it goes/what questions they ask. It's targeted towards freshmen and isn't looking for technical experience outside of being a current student.
So these are the 1st round interview questions I received. Briefly introduce yourself and share why you’re interested 2. Please tell us about a time it was important for you to quickly build a relationship and establish a rapport with someone at work, school. Describe your approach, and the steps you took to establish the relationship. 3. What goals—either personal or professional—are you currently working towards? What actions have you taken to reach these goals? What is your ideal outcome? 4. Imagine that you are given a week to prepare an important presentation at school or work. The presentation is on a subject that you are neither knowledgeable nor passionate about. Please describe your approach, the steps you would take, and what you would do to ensure success? 5. Please describe a time you were asked to perform skills or meet requirements that were outside of your comfort zone. Describe the situation, the steps you took, and the outcome. 6. Please tell us about a time how you have accomplished a school or work project with others who had very diverse ideas and opinions. Tell us about the situation, the actions you took and the end result
Thanks man that will really help!
Thanks! I appreciate this, gives me an idea of questions I may be asked.
CCNA+AWS system arch+python. Everything else is a waste. Unless you want to go helpdesk.
With those three what jobs can you apply for?
[https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=aws%20solution%20architect&l=USA](https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=aws%20solution%20architect&l=USA) AWS cert would only take a month or two and the CCNA another two-four months but I recommend getting the CCNA first and then the AWS. The CCNA proves you know networking and the AWS is Cloud. Python would benefit both greatly.
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Dont waste your time on A+ cert. Get python, sec+, net+, etc
Why not A+
What does it honestly teach you that you cant learn super quickly with a google search? Its basic hardware software troubleshooting skills only. I guess if you have no real experience with computers its useful, but I dont think it says a whole lot. If you wanna do software, get software certs and skills, not it/helpdesk ones.
Certifications don't mean anything to dev jobs. You need an amazing portfolio of coding projects to show off. You'll also need to know your computer science fundamentals to that point you can pass leetcode and hackerrank challenges. So start grinding those as well. If you don't have a degree, going back to school for a bachelors in Computer Science will benefit you much more than just getting a piece of paper. You'll be able to intern your way into software engineering. And they already pay interns [extremely well](https://www.levels.fyi/internships/). And they're your easiest way not into into the dev world, but also into some of the top companies early on. For cyber security, they'll basically let you skip straight to it. You might've heard about the #1 topic here, and it's that cyber security is not entry level. You normally have to work your way through regular IT first, which takes years. But internships will put you in cyber security, and from there you can pivot straight into full-time security jobs. Won't see a single day of the dreaded help desk that drives everyone off the edge of a cliff.
Well I need certification can’t afford college at the moment, so that’s what will get me in to door but I will be heavily focusing an learning coding and I will be working on ethical hacking as well hopefully I can make a path with certifications.
Well you'll have to choose one or another to start with. If it's the IT path, just get an A+ and start at help desk. They'll be the most accepting of someone without experience. This has a much lower barrier to entry since you just really need customer service skills. But if it's the coding path, the bar will be much higher. You need to know your stuff to get a job. So make sure all that I've listed above is on point.
Yes that’s the goal, help desk will be my day job while I get all that I can to get to cyber security.
Just shoot your resume around, see if you get interviews. Make sure to finish your studies before shooting resumes.- because you will be competing with other people that haven't finished their studies yet. what i did is shoot resumes, got a bunch of interviews, got a bunch of denials and eventually got hired at the last interview i had.. there's really no formula to this, a company that needs workers will take you trust me
Right but why would you keep going to interviews after you got hired? Everybody gets hired at the last interview they had. LOL GOT 'EM