How can I get a job in the IT field w/o much experience?
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It doesn't sound like a fun option, but you may have to take a helpdesk tech support job for a while to get experience. The pay may not be good, but if you do well while doing the tech support, someone may notice and you may be able to get a better position in the company quicker than trying to convince someone to let you have the better job without the experience. Almost all of the IT people I work with today did some time as helpdesk tech support.\n\nIt may help to try to get in with a smaller company, since more of their staff will need to be multi-talented, and you could get more responsibility if you show you can do more than just helpdesk tech support.\n\nAlso in your spare time, try to work on IT related personal projects. This will help keep you sharp, and can help during interviews if you have actually done some of these projects. For example, if you want to become a system administrator, setup a personal server than can be accessed online and maintain it. It may help to show employers that you can run and maintain a server.
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You can always look for a job in California, most of the good IT jobs are there. Make sure you let the company know you are open to gaining experience and certificates. They will most likely sponsor you if they see you want to learn.
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I am telling by experience.\n\nThe best way to get into IT networking is by doing the following:\n1. Do MCSE 2003 (noawadys). \n2. Get a job as junior administrtor apply all the concepts you learnt in MCSE.\n3. after couple of years of experience \n4. Start CCNA because it's core networking course, MCSE and couple of years of experience will help you a lot in understanding concepts in CCNA.\n5. When opting for CCNA don't go for a crash course, od a proper course from a proper Institute.\n6. You'll be surprised with the results.\n\nRemember there's no shortcut to success.\n\nHope it helps
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If your looking for IT knowledge you have the best tool in front of you experiment with your own computer. I have been in IT for almost 10 years. And I have seen alot of people go threw the IT courses only too find out a majory of there certifications didn't really prepare them for real problems that can happen. Training is good. But should not be a substitute for good experance. Both need to be used hand and hand. Training and Experance. So don't be afraid to do both.
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now that depends on the type of job youre applying for. youre talking about what you need to get a job, right? the most important thing you need is a versatile portfolio. prepare a sample of your work to show off your best stuff to a potential employer. make sure you are clear on the types of software in which you are proficient. a formal education can help but if you have learned marketable skills otherwise and can prove that with a portfolio, you will be in good shape. any sort of experience will help make you a more attractive candidate as it is rare in any profession to be able to start anywhere other than the 'bottom of the ladder.' do not, however, think that any experience is too meek to show off: let potential employers know of work you have done for friends, family, any type of group, school, publication, or other employers. pick your three to six best experiences to brag about.
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Your best chance is to get a job as an entry-level PC tech in a medium to large company where there is enough work to keep you busy. Smaller companies will typically want to hire fewer admins, but with more experience and education than you have described. Also, larger companies often have more budget money for paying to send their admins to various training courses every year or so. If you've taught yourself everything you know from the Internet, that is a very good sign and an appealing quality you should play up in an interview. If you're already fixing other people's machines, you probably understand already how important it is to show a courteous and helpful attitude toward the people who come to you for help. That will get you so much farther than a sombrero full of dubious certifications. As for the math, don't let that discourage you from programming in at least some capacity, even if it's just for fun.\n\nBest of luck to you on your quest
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since you don't have a degree or anything like that, it's goin to be pretty hard to get any kinda job, what you could do is either build a killer application that no company could do without, and sell yourself that way, or get online, and search for online courses, or certs that'll prove that you know your stuff, good luck, hope ye find a job\n\nR3dm0
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"Good" jobs are everywhere, but they are also likely to attract a lot of high-quality candidates. In addition to applying for them, you should also pay attention to problems that companies are experiencing in their IT department.\n\nPropose a solution, and offer to work on contract so they see what you are capable of.\n\nIn other words, try to find problems then try to solve them. This will require that you talk to a lot of people and network aggressively.\n\nDon't look for "jobs", look for "problems." If you can solve problems, companies sometimes will create a job for you. A job, in fact, is only a problem that is persistent.\n\nI advise and coach people on career strategies, and I always tell them to look for problems to which they can offer solutions. Companies just love problem-solving people!\n\nOn the other hand, companies and HR people are not too crazy about "job seekers." So it's better to position yourself as a solution person, and be ready to explain what kind of solution you are offering to companies.
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Its important that you first decide what type of support you want to provide.  Getting both is not likely to help you unless you are working as the single IT resource for a small company.\n\nAre you interested in networking?  Are you interested in Desktop support?  Are you interested in Databases?  Are you interested in hardware?  \n\nFigure out what you want to do and there are lots of certifications that you can get.\n\nSeek employment with a temp agency and see if you can be exposed to junior level support in all of the above areas and then you can select your career path.\n\nMCSE, (Microsoft Cert) CCNA (Cisco Cert) OCP (Oracle Cert) all are several thousand to attend a course and certify in.  Or you can self study and take the tests only for $100 per test.  Each cert has different requirements that change frequently.
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Go to the college that you graduated from, check to see if they have an alumni job placement service.\nThe college I work at does, and often employers are looking for graduates and understand that the experience isn't there yet.  Good Luck
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go to manpower.com\n\nthey are anagency...the BEST, and they can help you find different\ntypes of jobs to get your foot into the door\nthe rest is a matter of you networking\nwith people where you are to stay and train you better
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@ get a job in Indian IT industry has many options, if not get selected through Campus Interview. Major steps are as below:\n1. DO some course specilaized in C, C++, .net, Oracle, SAP, ERP anything which u think u can master\n2. Join any institution which can give u a break like IIIT \n3. Join any professional institute like NIIT etc. which make a premilimary IT professional be imparting value added training and assist in campus.\n4. Get some certification from Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Cisco whatever ur interest.\n5. Do some homework at home and get full command on IT skill. \n6. Finally job hunt through job sites. U will certainly get a call and selection is upto ur knowledge base.\nBest of luck
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for an IT Job, I greatly suggest DICE.. \n\ndepending on what kind of job there are certain types of searches for certain areas.
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Try this.\n1)Identify in your personal career development plans(HR).\n2)Show Willingness to sacrifice personal time. money and commitment towards self-redevelopment.\n3)Request for possible lateral movement to an IT delpartment perhaps via job sharing?  job shadowing?\n4)Show the readiness to move to another company if denied AND especially you have finished your formal training.
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The good bit is that you have experience. I would get some certs too as some of those hiring like to see them whether you think it really indicates ability or not. So the usual A+,network+, MCP,MCSA.MCSE etc and whatever your specialism is (mine was citrix). If you could get some documented project management experience then that would give more opportunity to "shop around" in terms of pastures new. There is, apparently another skills shortage in some areas of IT.Obviously IT is another profession where ageism also plays a part.
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With no experience, don't spend your time on a degree just yet. Spend your time (and your money) on classes that prepare you to take the industry-standard certifications for your feild. Networking's a big topic. If you want to work with infrastructure (routers, switches, the way data gets from Point A to Point B) then study for Cisco. If you want to work with servers and systems (how the data is stored, and how it's used by the users) opt for Microsoft. If you want to work with the data itself (database design/administration, data mining, data warehousing) go for Oracle. Get the premier certifications--- for Microsoft, that's MCSE,  not MCP or MCSA.\n\nEmployers in the IT industry these days are very reluctant to hire a candidate that has no experience, but they'll be more likely to take a chance on you if Microsoft (or Oracle or Java or Sun or whoever) says you know how the product works, as opposed to a degree. Even though a degree takes longer to earn, employers just don't trust it as endorsement that you're qualified if you don't have experience to back it up.  If you already had experience, the degree would be the way to go as you'd earn a lot more money, but for an entry-level position for an inexperienced person, you will have a very, very hard time getting a job without being certified, no matter how many degrees you have.\n\nTuition reimbursement is a common benefit in IT in the US. You can take college courses that count towards your degree in anything you want, and your employer will pay you back a percentage of your tuition, provided you get good grades. So once you're working, take advantage of this benefit and finish your degree taking night classes.
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You can try any online recruitment agency like primiere www.premieregypt.com. But I believe that the best idea is to get to know people who work in IT and they will help you find a good job. You can also take an IT course in the AUC and the there you will meet many people working in different good places and they will tell you where to go.