Being ambitious when applying for a new Job?

To be honest, the length of your experience isn't quite as relevant as what that experience actually covers.

If you're applying for senior technician roles, it's entirely possible you'll be dealing with advanced networking/AD administration/etc.

If your experience is limited to resetting passwords and swapping power supplies, you could have 10 years of experience and it still wouldn't be relevant to the role you're applying for.
 
areksnumbr1sxylady said:
I am sorry, but I find it hilarious when Public Sector workers claim to be in "same boat" as those in Private....

Have you ever been told that you will be fired if you fail to meet targets? With that being the norm, rather than repeated offender?
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So in your mind the entire Private employment sector are sales jobs? I've worked in far more private sector jobs than I have in the public sector and never been told I would be fired for not meting sales targets.

Even when I worked in a retail store at University and I refused to sell the store's ridiculous overpriced warranties they just moaned a bit and let me carry on (because they knew I was a good employee).
 
I started at my place on a grad scheme 4~ years ago on Support -> QA -> Development and just been made Development Team Leader in under 4 years. I looked about when I was applying and applied to a lot of non grad roles but never heard anything back really. So started at bottom no development experience and now have a team. So dont be afraid to go in low if you are good and work hard you will go up if thats what you want.
 
Haggisman said:
To be honest, the length of your experience isn't quite as relevant as what that experience actually covers.

If you're applying for senior technician roles, it's entirely possible you'll be dealing with advanced networking/AD administration/etc.

If your experience is limited to resetting passwords and swapping power supplies, you could have 10 years of experience and it still wouldn't be relevant to the role you're applying for.
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And my experience was mainly doing server installation/maintenance, AD, Group Policy, Exchange 2010, WSUS and WDS. Also introduced into a non techie team linux servers, set them up a Squid Proxy Server and created a PHP media streaming application for them. I was actually left with the technical stuff. Obviously there were still a lot of times when I had to replace broken mice/keyboards.
 
No harm in applying at all, as has been pointed out it's valuable interview experience if you get that far in the process even if you don't get the role.
 
kitkat9933 said:
Well the reason I say 2+ is that before my full-time placement I worked a lot over the years helping out in schools as my dad is a Network Manager, so yes 2+.
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I really wouldn't include that kind of info on a cv and would not mention it interview. It just sounds like you're desperate to convince someone you're experienced. Not having much experience doesn't have to be a negative thing. They're not stupid, they'll expect this given your age. They just won't invite you to interview if they're not interested.
 
Captain Planet said:
I really wouldn't include that kind of info on a cv and would not mention it interview. It just sounds like you're desperate to convince someone you're experienced. Not having much experience doesn't have to be a negative thing. They're not stupid, they'll expect this given your age. They just won't invite you to interview if they're not interested.
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I haven't included it on my CV, but if someone questioned me on why I say 2+ years, I explain :)
 
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