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I'm sick of phoning little old ladies for a living, and asking them if they would like to help a charity.
I have a HNC in computing which is nice, but not very useful as far as I can tell. Hopefully I can get a bit of direction amongst experienced IT professionals.

 

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Hello and welcome to the forums! You'll find that a HNC is useful to you but only with relevant real world experience (and a few industry certs like A+, N+ and MCDST) wouldn't hurt

I'm assuming you're looking to start in 1st line support, right?

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Talking about the first line support, I was just checking up on the MCDST. Freaky!!
Being telesales orientated I suppose it would be a natural progression and I would have some of the skills in place already - anything is a better than what I am doing now to be honest

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for JISER for setting a link to the site!

 

Hi & welcome to CF

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hey, awesome your new to the site to. welcome from a fellow noob. quick question whats a HNC??

 

Higher National Certificate

See - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_National_Certificate

 

Oh i did a btech and never heard of HNC. Edit

I have HNC.. Edit

So Yoshi what BTEC did u under take? 1st? or National??

 

I started the course (originally to do a HND) as a mature student aged about 28 at the time, so they basically took my word for it that I would try hard. A lot of the younger guys had done either A levels or a foundation course.
The HND is 6 modules in the 1st year, and 6 modules in the 2nd.
Each module is worth 20 points, for a HND you need all 12 modules for the 240 points required to pass, a HNC is only 160 (8 Modules), I had some personal stuff so exited with my six 1st year passes and just concentrated on 2 modules for 2nd year.
They exited me with a HNC which I was glad of as I didn't have a great 2008 :P

 

Hello & Welcome to CF.

 

Welcome!