Looking forward for my First IT job
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson This sounds like an entry level job. If you have no experience, and they hired you for it. They expect you to know nothing and be able to learn on the job.
Just chill out and be willing to learn.
Congrats on getting the job.
Even a non-first job, often they expect you to be leaning on the job. There is no job that you can really prepare for ahead of time, you just can't know enough about it before you get started.
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Do you know yet what technologies you will be supporting, what tasks you will have, what tools they use?
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@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
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@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
Assuming your CV's are honest, you already have the necessary requirements for the job. There is nothing to prepare for if you don't know the products they are using.
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@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
Well that's good, but be aware that there is no way for us to tell you what the job is. The terms are generic (so is IT Analyst, that's not an actual job, that's a fake title that means nothing at all, I've had it before too) so they mean, literally, nothing. You could be doing anything. It's no more information than "I have a job, what will I be doing?"
Congrats on the new job. Just relax between now and then. There is no way for them to expect you to have any idea what you will be doing until they tell you when you arrive.
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@DustinB3403 thank you . What you think I need to know that's what am asking ? I need to get myself ready
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@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@DustinB3403 thank you . What you think I need to know that's what am asking ? I need to get myself ready
We can't possibly know, that's the problem. No idea at all.
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@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@DustinB3403 thank you . What you think I need to know that's what am asking ? I need to get myself ready
It's entry level, go into day one and say, ok bitches, teach me.
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@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
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@DustinB3403 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@DustinB3403 thank you . What you think I need to know that's what am asking ? I need to get myself ready
It's entry level, go into day one and say, ok bitches, teach me.
I really dare him to do that ROFLOL!
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@Dashrender said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
He doesn't know what the job entails. He didn't imply that he doesn't have IT knowledge.
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What's amazing is that there was no interview and no contact with the company that's hiring. I know that this is not the US and this stuff happens elsewhere, but be aware that no serious position will do this. So from the fact that there is no interaction with the company hiring you can know that this is entry level. It implies that the person hiring is entry level as well and has no idea how to hire.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@Dashrender said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
He doesn't know what the job entails. He didn't imply that he doesn't have IT knowledge.
Yeah. The title is unfamiliar to him. It doesn't mean a specific set of responsibilities though unfortunately for him. That would make it easy for everyone.
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@wirestyle22 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@Dashrender said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
He doesn't know what the job entails. He didn't imply that he doesn't have IT knowledge.
Yeah. The title is unfamiliar to him. It doesn't mean a specific set of responsibilities though unfortunately for him. That would make it easy for everyone.
Nothing in IT has that, really. Even really specific, real titles like "RHEL Administrator" could mean "managing printers" or "performance management and troubleshooting" or "writing code for Chef"... easily one hundred different jobs that have essentially zero overlap.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@wirestyle22 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@Dashrender said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
He doesn't know what the job entails. He didn't imply that he doesn't have IT knowledge.
Yeah. The title is unfamiliar to him. It doesn't mean a specific set of responsibilities though unfortunately for him. That would make it easy for everyone.
Nothing in IT has that, really. Even really specific, real titles like "RHEL Administrator" could mean "managing printers" or "performance management and troubleshooting" or "writing code for Chef"... easily one hundred different jobs that have essentially zero overlap.
Yeah it sucks lol
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@wirestyle22 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@Dashrender said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
He doesn't know what the job entails. He didn't imply that he doesn't have IT knowledge.
Yeah. The title is unfamiliar to him. It doesn't mean a specific set of responsibilities though unfortunately for him. That would make it easy for everyone.
Nothing in IT has that, really. Even really specific, real titles like "RHEL Administrator" could mean "managing printers" or "performance management and troubleshooting" or "writing code for Chef"... easily one hundred different jobs that have essentially zero overlap.
It makes it so its harder to compare salaries ultimately. That's why they love it
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@wirestyle22 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@wirestyle22 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@Dashrender said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
He doesn't know what the job entails. He didn't imply that he doesn't have IT knowledge.
Yeah. The title is unfamiliar to him. It doesn't mean a specific set of responsibilities though unfortunately for him. That would make it easy for everyone.
Nothing in IT has that, really. Even really specific, real titles like "RHEL Administrator" could mean "managing printers" or "performance management and troubleshooting" or "writing code for Chef"... easily one hundred different jobs that have essentially zero overlap.
It makes it so its harder to compare salaries ultimately. That's why they love it
It's not that sinister. IT is a business, not technical, discipline and business roles have the same problem. Even two CEOs have nothing in common.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@wirestyle22 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@wirestyle22 said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@Dashrender said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
@scottalanmiller hello scott, I dnot know . I forwarded my cv's as 2nd line supoort to agencies because I have a friend as senior IT Analyst, help me to apply to forward my cv's to agency and I got message last night
So you're purposefully applying for jobs you can't do? 2nd line support are the guys that DO KNOW. They aren't the ones reading the scripts of premade pages. I think your friend is doing you a disservice.
He doesn't know what the job entails. He didn't imply that he doesn't have IT knowledge.
Yeah. The title is unfamiliar to him. It doesn't mean a specific set of responsibilities though unfortunately for him. That would make it easy for everyone.
Nothing in IT has that, really. Even really specific, real titles like "RHEL Administrator" could mean "managing printers" or "performance management and troubleshooting" or "writing code for Chef"... easily one hundred different jobs that have essentially zero overlap.
It makes it so its harder to compare salaries ultimately. That's why they love it
It's not that sinister. IT is a business, not technical, discipline and business roles have the same problem. Even two CEOs have nothing in common.
That's true
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking forward for my First IT job:
Even two CEOs have nothing in common.
please explain that one.
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I think that people outside of business picture all CEOs sitting in a corner office looking at financial reports and telling slackers what to do while slaves bring him martinis and press his suits. But one CEO works in the trenches doing blue collar manual labour with the crew, one is on the road doing sales all day, one is writing code through the night, one is speaking at conferences, another lures investors, another spends all the time pouring over financial reports, one buys and sells other companies.... I've never met two CEOs that do similar things.
