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This really First level support and help desk juniors and work your way in.
you could look at some qualifications too http://www.itil-officialsite.com/Qualifications/ITILQualificationScheme.aspx is a good one
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This really First level support and help desk juniors and work your way in.
you could look at some qualifications too http://www.itil-officialsite.com/Qualifications/ITILQualificationScheme.aspx is a good one
Do you have a degree? (Sorry if you've mentioned this, couldn't see). We're looking for grads
Not a degree no, I studied music sound engineering.
Can you recommend some good companies to enquire to who are good for IT?
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I've looked for apprenticeships in my area and there are none, I've even looked at some of the bigger ICT companies like BT, some ISPs etc... and there doesn't seem to be any entry level IT jobs at all in the south east (at least where I've been looking).
I'm hoping once I get my MCITP server admin to go along with my CCNA and BSc ICT that I may have better luck. After reading the armed forces thread I'm even thinking of perhaps RAF ICT tech as a possibility as they have that listed as a priority hire, although I'll have to see if I can get my fitness to the require level and work through my bad knee.
I'm hoping once I get my MCITP server admin to go along with my CCNA and BSc ICT that I may have better luck. After reading the armed forces thread I'm even thinking of perhaps RAF ICT tech as a possibility as they have that listed as a priority hire, although I'll have to see if I can get my fitness to the require level and work through my bad knee.
We either want recent graduates who want to get into the testing industry or people who have a couple of year's experience working in IT so that they can learn some new skills.
Ah funny that, I did music tech at Uni
I couldn't really recommend anywhere to be honest, don't know much about the apprenticeship route - I did look into HP and o2 apprenticeships though. Drop me an email if you'd like to know a bit more about what we do though. Do you have much experience with IT/programming at all? Even if it's "I built PC's since I was 15" or have HTML/CSS/C/C+ etc skills?
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Still banging the Fujitsu drum Gilly?!
All jokes aside, it's not a bad company to work for; Capgemini is also worth a look.
The missus just got taken on at HP, even though she has no IT work (project management role - junior obviously!) previously, or even skills. This was through an agency.
So deffo go down that route. Elan, manpower etc;
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It's a good company to work for.
It's not all show no go like CG
It's not all show no go like CG
Considering I've been looking at apprenticeships for the last few months I will have my input.
http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/ found my apprenticeship through that site.
Most I've seen in my area are all small companies, then occasionally the big companies will pop up (Sky, BT, Cisco etc). I know IBM have a scheme but that isn't shown on that website.
The small ones in my opinion looked rather bad. The description on a lot of them doesn't even say what you will be doing, the pay is bad(around £6k a year) and are only 12 months (might get a job at the end maybe?)
My apprenticeship is 3 years long, the first year is the proper apprenticeship year where I will go to QA who does the teaching for Microsoft exams etc and then go to work with my employer. Most of the time is at work and not QA.
While at work it won't all be technical by any means and we move around the company going into different departments to find out what we like. At the end of the 3 years there is a high chance of getting a job.
Either way though, apprenticeships offer you that valuable experience while gaining certifications. The great combination so it seems! Personally I think apprenticeships are gaining 'popularity' and shouldn't be looked past.
http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/ found my apprenticeship through that site.
Most I've seen in my area are all small companies, then occasionally the big companies will pop up (Sky, BT, Cisco etc). I know IBM have a scheme but that isn't shown on that website.
The small ones in my opinion looked rather bad. The description on a lot of them doesn't even say what you will be doing, the pay is bad(around £6k a year) and are only 12 months (might get a job at the end maybe?)
My apprenticeship is 3 years long, the first year is the proper apprenticeship year where I will go to QA who does the teaching for Microsoft exams etc and then go to work with my employer. Most of the time is at work and not QA.
While at work it won't all be technical by any means and we move around the company going into different departments to find out what we like. At the end of the 3 years there is a high chance of getting a job.
Either way though, apprenticeships offer you that valuable experience while gaining certifications. The great combination so it seems! Personally I think apprenticeships are gaining 'popularity' and shouldn't be looked past.
Still banging the Fujitsu drum Gilly?!
All jokes aside, it's not a bad company to work for; Capgemini is also worth a look.
The missus just got taken on at HP, even though she has no IT work (project management role - junior obviously!) previously, or even skills. This was through an agency.
So deffo go down that route. Elan, manpower etc;
Yeah i'm with Manpower, what's "Elan" by the way?
Was another recruitment company, believe they are part of Manpower now, or now called Experis or something
http://www.experis.co.uk/
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If you want to do I.T support, configuring software, setting up hardware etc, it's probably best via apprenticeships and certifications, but a degree won't hurt you either.
If you want to do software development, R&D etc then a degree is probably better regarded. Any job that could find the theoretical and highly technical aspect of computers useful(Algorithms, Machine Learning, Designing hardware), is probably better as a degree.
If you want learn how to use specific pieces of software/hardware like windows server, or Microsoft exchange then a vocational education is better.
I.T support for me is boring as hell, so i knew what the obvious choice was.
If you want to do software development, R&D etc then a degree is probably better regarded. Any job that could find the theoretical and highly technical aspect of computers useful(Algorithms, Machine Learning, Designing hardware), is probably better as a degree.
If you want learn how to use specific pieces of software/hardware like windows server, or Microsoft exchange then a vocational education is better.
I.T support for me is boring as hell, so i knew what the obvious choice was.
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hang on - are you talking about an actual apprenticeship or is this some marketing term being used by a dubious training company?
Might be best if you clarify exactly what you're referring to, what does the course entail, what qualifications will you get out of it.
What area do you want to get into in IT - for low level techie roles you don't necessarily need a degree - starting in 1st line support and acquiring vendor certificates seems to be the way to go here...
In other areas degrees are fairly standard... then again its not like their are regulations here - private companies can hire whoever they want in pretty much any IT role so there will always be exceptions.
Thanks for that, i've completed their form, fingers crossed.
The course I looked at is called "JustIT". I went to them the other week to see what they were about. It's quite a lot of money to do it though.