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first of all there is nothing wrong with formating HDDs! You just taught yourself a very valueable trick of trade! FORMAT!

I think in todays IT world we need to have our certs before looking for jobs.. but it seems we always have to start from somewhere eg support (A+), prove yourself there... get your mcse lets say and find an admin job... as with the job hunting you just got to keep trying.. send out CVs again and again... follow up to see if they got it.. be a pest (not too much!) but just make sure they know you exist!

btw i found a great site for IT jobs in the UK apparently its the best one... CWJobs

 

Arroryn, I personally think programming and technical engineering are two very different aspects of IT and you should focus on just one. IT engineers are being asked now to have some experience in programming in things like Java and VB but not to a level dedicated programmers do which is fine. Personally I think to be a good programmer you need a programmers logic and way of thinking. The lad at work who develops Domino doesn't know nothing about IT Engineering and I don't know anything about programming and thats the way it should be. Two seperate jobs and two different aspects of IT that shouldn't mix.

So my advice would be to go down the path of what your most interested in and stick to that and gear your training around it.

 

I think that the fact that you're attempting to train yourself in your own time and off your own back does count for something; it definitely shows willing. However it will also depend on the interviewer's opinion - are they impressed by this or think, as you say, it's "seemingly for the sake of gaining employment" - they may be asking themselves if you have a genuine interest in IT. It can swing both ways methinks.

CWJobs are pretty good - they got me my helpdesk job & one of the developers at work also got his job through them.

 

I was reading in Computer Weekly that .NET development skills were going to be the hot thing for 2006.
Great.

It's a bit like saying to people 'well, if you want to earn good money, you really ought to be an astronaut.'

 

Arroryn, I suppose in many ways I'm a lot like yourself, in that I always want to know more, I think that it is always nice to have a good overview of a wide variety of subjects rather than an indepth understanding of a single one.

The Problem with IT though is that it is just such a wide field that it is impossible to learn everything.

Now, unlike you Arroryn, I am already employed in the industry, and (think) that I have built up the core skill sets that make up my job role, but there is always a need for more.

Ultimately though Arroryn my advise to you would be to focus on what you think that your core skills will be for the type of role that you are looking for, and once in that role develop further.

 

I think that MUST have something to do with VS.net 2005 coming out?