Being ambitious when applying for a new Job?

kitkat9933

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I'm only actually graduating this summer, predicted for a 1st Class with Honours degree, but I have applied for several Deputy Network Manger and Senior ICT Technician roles.

However, for my placement year I worked full time for a year as an ICT Technician already and since I started back for my final year I've been working at the same place for 3 days a week part-time contracted as they wanted me to stay badly. So in essence I already have ~2 years experience working as a ICT Technician.

On top of that I do a lot of freelancing work in media production and Web Development for small companies in the evenings.

So would you say I'm being overly ambitious? and what are your personal opinions on being ambitious when applying for a new job? in regards to both you or others?
 
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Personally I don't think you're being too ambitious - when I graduated I was offered a Network Manager role at two different secondary schools, and within 3 years was in an IT Director role. Ultimately if you have the skills, experience and come across well in interview most places will snap you up :)
 
Good luck to you. If you're not ambitious, you're not going to get anywhere.

However, this doesn't add up to me:

kitkat9933 said:
However, for my placement year I worked full time for a year as an ICT Technician already and since I started back for my final year I've been working at the same place for 3 days a week part-time contracted as they wanted me to stay badly. So in essence I already have 2 years+ experience working as a ICT Technician.
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1 year + 1 year part time = 2 years+ experience?
 
York said:
Personally I don't think you're being too ambitious - when I graduated I was offered a Network Manager role at two different secondary schools, and within 3 years was in an IT Director role. Ultimately if you have the skills, experience and come across well in interview most places will snap you up :)
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Someone fresh out of University doesn't have the "experience" though (and a 1 year internship doesn't count)
 
estebanrey said:
To clarify, it counts technically as experience but it would not suffice if an employer was looking for someone with experience (by which they'd mean years of doing the job in a proper, pressurised role).
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If I went to an interview and was trying to sell myself, I'd definitely sell it to them as time spent doing the job, gaining experience... Anyone recruiting would be able to see that..
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Surely 1+1=2 ?
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Putting a + on the end makes it look/sound better :p
 
One year and some part-time work doesn't really make you a senior tech in my experience. No harm in applying though.
 
estebanrey said:
To clarify, it counts technically as experience but it would not suffice if an employer was looking for someone with experience (by which they'd mean years of doing the job in a proper, pressurised role).
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Well my internship was defiantly the same as doing the proper job in a pressurised role.

We won't treated as interns we were treated as full hands on Technicians expected to be doing the same as the Senior Technician or Network Manager.

Also the fact that as our Network Manager would even admit he's not a 'techie', he is a politics man and as a 'techie' I was actually left to do the more complex and challenging parts of the role that no one else on the team could do.
 
kitkat9933 said:
Well my internship was defiantly the same as doing the proper job in a pressurised role.

We won't treated as interns we were treated as full hands on Technicians expected to be doing the same as the Senior Technician or Network Manager.

Also the fact that as our Network Manager would even admit he's not a 'techie', he is a politics man and as a 'techie' I was actually left to do the more complex and challenging parts of the role that no one else on the team could do.
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Unfortunately no one cares about your "inner world"

They see word internship, and its seen as a joke.
 
areksnumbr1sxylady said:
Unfortunately no one cares about your "inner world"

They see word internship, and its seen as a joke.
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Well actually they won't see the word internship as I put down industrial placement :)

Also the fact I'll get gleaming references from my current Network Manager and Senior Leadership.

The question in the OP was more referring to as whether in terms of the amount of time I've been in the profession was enough for the sort of roles I've been going for.
 
areksnumbr1sxylady said:
Unfortunately no one cares about your "inner world"

They see word internship, and its seen as a joke.
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You quite clearly have no idea what your talking about

Doing an internship is the ONLY way to stand out.

It's a fact that your far more likely to be hired if you have a 2:1 degree and complete an internship and to have a 1st with no experience
 
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