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Newsletter – July 5, 2009 –Sun, Sea and Special Offer

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Sun, Sea and Sangria again

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I promised last week that this newsletter would be on time unless the sun, sea and sangria got to me – which it did so I’m a little late.

I’ve actually been learning a bit of basic Spanish – you know really useful stuff like ordering meals in a restaurant and buying beers.

You may be pleased to know that I won’t make any comments on current affairs this week.

That’s mainly because we have seen no TV news, read a newspaper or listened to the radio. I’ve even managed to resist the temptation to look up the news sites from my laptop.

So we have had a week totally out of touch, and guess what? It’s wonderful.

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How do you get an IT Job?

Last week we talked about how people get IT jobs. I talked about Kate who took the conventional path of get an IT degree then apply for IT jobs. That worked for Kate, and is still a very good option if your circumstances allow it.

But there are other ways to do it. Let’s look at some actual real case histories of people I have known personally. I’ve changed the names but all the other details are real.

JULIA

Julia is a middle aged lady who has worked for many years as a clerical assistant in a department of the public service. She was given a minor role in an IT project that needed staff, due to her knowledge of how the department worked. She talked with the business analysts and project managers to find what they actually did and how they did it.

She found, to her own surprise, that these jobs weren’t as difficult as people made them out to be. They just required some common sense and some general knowledge. So she starting helping out where she could, listening and learning – AND DOING!

Within a year she was offered a role as a Business Analyst and within two a role as an IT Project Manager.

DARREN

Darren is a young man with an interest in PCs. he managed to get a temporary job as a "gopher" in an IT department, basically fetching and carrying and installing. Two years later he is a senior support person earning 4 times as much as he was.

MARTIN

Martin was working as a telephone sales operative. Using our method he quickly moved to team leader, support technician and business analyst, more than quadrupling his income in only 3 years.

SIMON

Simon was a technical support guru in a call centre. He had spent a few years maintaining the phone and related systems for a call centre. While he was good at the job and enjoyed it, he felt he wanted to move on. When his call centre decided to have a CTI System (Computer Telephony Interface) installed he took an active and enthusiastic role in the project. He learned about Business Analysis and Project Management by talking to the project team, reading and observing what was going on around him.

When the next project came along, he was remembered by the project team and was invited to be a business analyst on the project. He is now a Senior Business Analyst far away from the call centre.

There are many case histories like these we could quote. They show that there are many and varied ways into well paid IT jobs. None of these examples took the degree path.

When you work with IT people you realise that most people move “sideways” into IT with only a few picking it as a career and doing an IT degree.

The common thread is that you really have to be operating in the IT space. It really doesn’t matter too much what you are doing. The important thing is to be working around IT people and being prepared to grasp opportunities as they happen – and in a field like IT they are happening all the time.

Yes, you need to be in the right place at the right time, but that’s just as much a matter of planning as it is of chance.

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Enjoy and prosper in your chosen career.

Till the next issue.

Kevin Ramsey

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