OT:rediculous, IT people Options

[bd1308]

i'm sitting here at the school, and there are all of these techs running around (my age) reading papres on how to add printers. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/WTF.gif) makes me wonder why I never get the good jobs.....

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[ClayPerrine]

Britt,
I have been in IT for over a decade. The entry level positions are thankless jobs. You get abused by the (L)users, and you are the gopher/whipping boy for the rest of the IT staff. But you have to start somewhere. I got my first IT job by already working at the company and hacking one of the servers. The IT manager figured it was better to keep me and put me in the IT department.

To get an IT job, you will have to start at the bottom, but from what I know about you from this site, you are smart and will move up fast. To do that, Dress nice, talk respectfully, and make sure you present yourself as someone who wants to learn, not as someone who knows it all already. You may know a lot about computers. But you don't have a resume covered in certifications and experience. IT managers are human, and we don't like some snot nosed kid with a half page resume that shows his job experience at Burger King telling us how we are doing everything wrong. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)


Bottom line, you are selling yourself to the IT manager. And considering your lack of verifiable experience, he is taking a chance on you. You have to stand out from the other applicants. And your computer skills are NOT going to sell it. All you have to sell is apperance and attitude. If either of those are bad, you will not get the job.

Good luck.

Let me know if I can help in any way.


Clay C. Perrine
Senior Network Administrator
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JZ Corporate Services
A subsidiary of Jacuzzi Brands, Inc.
14801 Quorum Drive
Dallas, TX 75254