IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Splash]

The lack of info out there for MCSE materials is
Literally 1 book everyone points to for Designing and Implementing server infrastructure and it has 5 mediocre reviews

Seems like quite a gap in the market

 

[King Sun]

Head for the hills. That policy is the precursor to layoffs. They're looking to see how many man hours you are spending on trouble tickets and if they really need as much staff as they currently have

Yes sir. It's time to start building specialized skills

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

i applied to a tech training place here to get another in to Networking (my internship is coming to a close and i'm not sure i want the FT position they're offering atm, so im weighing up some options). This place usually trains and helps coders from the ground up, but I saw they also help out people in networking and infosec, so i filled out the application, selected only the careers in networking and security, fucc it why not :I submit the app and it takes me to a developer test

They had me solve the lonely integer and merging arrays, and some other shyt. I only have 1 hour and 30 minutes, and I have only self taught basic scripting in mySQL, Python, and PowerShell

I figured out how to do the Lonely Integer in Python 2 and submitted it, and did a decent job with the merging arrays in SQL, but the whole time I was

But they're inviting me to an interview, apparently it was just a baseline test. but im not a coder and indicated as such on my application and didnt tick any interest in development. I'm going to walk in there like

 

[Splash]

I'm going to walk in there like

 

[Silkk]

The lack of info out there for MCSE materials is
Literally 1 book everyone points to for Designing and Implementing server infrastructure and it has 5 mediocre reviews

Seems like quite a gap in the market

Vip.careeracademy.com

 

[GollyImGully]

I got a phone interview monday for a network engineer role downtown manhatten

I think i low balled myself when they asked me my salary requirements i said 85k and if it was in range. They said it was. They probably was looking like " it sure is"

 

[Apollo Creed]

Vip.careeracademy.com

29 bucks a year is an amazing deal. Are the any other sites to look at before committing to this?

 

[Silkk]

29 bucks a year is an amazing deal. Are the any other sites to look at before committing to this?

Not in my opinion. It's normally $65 per course

 

[Apollo Creed]

Not in my opinion. It's normally $65 per course

I did a quick search on Reddit and seen people say its not all that great, but 30 bucks for a yr is a steal hmm

 

[Silkk]

I did a quick search on Reddit and seen people say its not all that great, but 30 bucks for a yr is a steal hmm

It was i used for my A+, Network+, & Security+

Only issues is the lack of labs but the price is still unfukkwitable

 

[Apollo Creed]

It was i used for my A+, Network+, & Security+

Only issues is the lack of labs but the price is still unfukkwitable

yea 30 bucks is the cost of one class on other sites. Is this a limited time thing or pretty much their set up?

 

[Silkk]

yea 30 bucks is the cost of one class on other sites. Is this a limited time thing or pretty much their set up?

Says its limited but doesn't give an exact end date.

But you get it for the year and then $29 a year after that unless you cancel

 

[Dig]

@bdizzle how hard is this ticketing stuff? I'm looking at help desk jobs and a lot of them require stuff like remedy, zen desk, vision help, etc

 

[Apollo Creed]

@bdizzle how hard is this ticketing stuff? I'm looking at help desk jobs and a lot of them require stuff like remedy, zen desk, vision help, etc

I`m in Remedy every so often to look at Request Status and its fairly straight forward.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

@bdizzle how hard is this ticketing stuff? I'm looking at help desk jobs and a lot of them require stuff like remedy, zen desk, vision help, etc

Give it a day you'll have no issue with any of them. A lot of them are much more powerful than this, but most of the time at the help desk level all you're going to do is have someone assign tickets to your queue, then you work on them and account for your time.