Thank you so much, Chris! I've just finished my apprenticeship as an IT engineer in early 2018 and started my first full time IT job. I was working for a company as the Sysadmin under one person and got into all kind of topics, kind of your version "jack of all trades". But the issue was I was just working in an windows only environment for a small company without much room to grow, so I just applied for a better job and got it with much more perspective for my career path, when it gets to certs and also variety of topics (aswell as pay :P). As you say, when you are first starting out, you need to get those certs to start snowballing your career. I'll keep watching your videos and really appreciate the variety of topics you are actually covering. When some other young folks ask me how to get into IT enterprise I always tell them to be open for new topics and never respond with words like "No, I can't do that" and rather "I have to admit that I don't have enough experience in this regards, but I will do my very best to research this certain topic and do my tests untill I am confident with it". From my perspective it always payed off. Regards from germany!
Great video Chris. I'm getting into programming myself but those interview tips are golden. I can tell you speak from experience. Keep doing what you do!
You have a lot of good points, I got started in IT around the same time you did. Started with server 2000 back in the day, and started working with computer repair. To move past that point you need to really put yourself out there, get to know people in the industry, talk the talk, really familiarize yourself with as many technologies as possible, and be willing to take risks. Even then, IT is a constant learning battle. The company I was with for a very long time recently decided they no longer need IT and everything was going in the cloud, so away we went along with 250 other jobs. That’s the way the industry is, it’s fast moving. Now what I’m seeing is even industry certs aren’t even enough these days. A lot of companies I applied for I was automatically disqualified for the position because they wanted someone with a masters degree in computer science or related engineering field. It’s crazy if you want to get paid more than 50k a year you really need more than 10-15 years experience even. Heck, just as an example I applied for a job that was looking for someone with 7-10 years experience with kubernetes. If you know anything about kubernetes, you will know there isn’t a single person alive with that much experience lol. That’s at least the way the job market is around here having just spent 6 months looking for a job. You either take an entry level helpdesk position, or learn some super obscure programming language or learn database administration or something. Those are the trends in seeing right now in corporate IT. Unless you have all the fancy industry buzz words in your resume like dev ops, cloud, big data, and so in good luck out there! The hard part is that all these technologies are so new, you need to dedicate all of your free time away from the office just keeping up in industry trends to stay relevant. Now I’m not trying to scare people away from IT,I think it’s a great field to get into but make sure you know what you are getting into, and be willing to learn new things constantly. I hardly know anyone who stays in one place for very long anymore just with companies seeing IT as a cost center instead of a business enabler. Just fix it in production. Yep heard that too many times! Haha!
Another great video. All these tips can be used in any interview situation. Selling yourself for a job in an interview is such a hard skill to master, very few do. This would be a very good tips and tricks for the interview training video.
Currently DevOps and Cloud is selling like a hot cake. I'd say Microsoft Certified Azure Engineer and there's an equivalent in AWS, just FYI for starters.
Any of those new fancy buzzwords you can get in your resume will help that’s the way corporations are going. They all have a cloud first mentality. That and big data. Most jobs I’ve looked for in the past 6 months were al for azure or some database admin.
@@DIYDad1 meanwhile my company is pretty anti-cloud they don't use services like AWS, Microsoft Azure etc. at all because of security concerns but well, they are actually pretty good (for example, we had a major attack last month, the whole company didn't have access to the web for a few days because they shut the connection down to investigate; yep, they put security above everything else)
The "1" certification that will pay the most and is very challenging is PMI (Project Management) certification, , it's very tough to get and requires a lot of studying to pass the test, and then diversify/specialize in IT Projects. You will be set for a career.
Certifications created it's own industry, classes, test centers, practice tests, etc. Produced a lot of "paper" MCSE that couldn't find a power switch. But they had a cert.
i once was interviewed by a CTO and Lawyer and HR, it was hard because mostly i was using technical jargon and the CTO reminded me to simply explain and not use any jargon so that they can understand.
Of course another important path into ICT is through College or University. I'm from Europe! I did College in Electronics in 1967 and in 1973 a 3-year evening course on Software Engineering (2x week 4 hours) from a well known University. I worked as prototype tester of main frames, Operating System designer, Software Development Manager (>100 developers) and Chief Architect in a large high tech organization. When I was hiring people, I hired for 80 to 90% people with a college or university degree. Sometimes I hired other people and sometimes it has been a failure and half of the times it has been a success. Working free lance as chief architect, I met a lot of Software Engineers from large EU and US companies and almost all had a University Degree. If you want to develop software and have a well paid career, go at least to College and preferably University. Remember: Everybody can build a block-hut, but few people are able to create a skyscraper. Everybody can write a program, but few people can create e.g. a safe Air Traffic Management System.
I had past experience on telecom industry and home user experience. Fortunately I've been hired as Junior IT support and I am now enrolled for some certifications. If you are in UK just look out for some apprenticeship program or junior position ;)
A great video , i need your advice if you may , i just got my CCNA and a lot of people are telling me to start learning about servers to round up my knowledge , so my question is do i need to learn about servers and if so which certification should i go for , after microsoft retired the MCSA , should i go for a linux cert and if so which one to start with , please help a confused newbie thank you so much note that i don't have any work experience but i am planning on studying for certifications while working
RedHat Certs are great as they are all HANDS ON practical and very stressful done a lot of them. Just they expire in 2-3 years and endless nightmare of trying to keep them current.
yes , i also thinking to get certificate but don't know which one i should get first . actually i want to become IT system integrator ,but i don't have any certificate or solid experience
Good! hey man, what do you think if a take Comptia Security + to get the entry level/ IT suport??? i already have MTA Networking and Google IT Support Certification. Thank you!
What about CCNA ? If you're looking for it. Please do indepth inquiry about the trainer . If the trainer has good skills to elaborate basic concepts then and only then go for it. On youtube - follow networkchuk David bombal.
@@ajinkyakandalkar9643 Thank you very much. I did some checks on some schools here in Lagos that are pretty good but...its either one story or another. Btw I already follow those channels. Thanks once again
Learn to fly. That made me very much less nervous. I have had my first job in it. I live in Germany, just did my abitur and got that job for working until I start studying. I learned much. I went in without much knowledge about docker, Sama (for Active directory), but I had desktop linux knowledge to the point that I was pretty familiar with bash scripting, networking. It worked, although it took me time to understand active directory. That was a bad time though, because I used a docker container which just did not work at all. It took me some time to figure that out. I dont know what that guy did or how he got that number of downloads, he had like 100k in the docker hub. Anyways, I fixed it. I am interested in seeing if he adds a license to his container so I can give him a pull request with the fixes...
I was a SAP support specialist and it was quite a technical role talking to end-users which is fun since they use the same language I do. However I got laid off after 8 years in that company and now I am doing NetSuite implementation. The company is good and the technology is great however it's 80% customer facing and it's less technical. I plan to get out in a month or two and go back to SAP doing more technical work. I am quite an introvert (however me self-declaring this invalidates it lol) Am I doomed?
Most do very basic contract support. Also most the servers are cloud based now where they don't have physical on-site hardware. So the only thing they need is a working computer and an internet connection.
I can't make music using Ableton live 10 and 3rd party plugins on Linux. I need my midi keyboard and audio interface, I don't have time to re-learn everything, I was only interested in Linux for ethical hacking.
So did I get lucky? I will start a apprenticeship in 1 week as an IT systemintegrator(school certificate) and the company I will learn in put me in the Systemadminstration Team. I am doing a internship right now there too. I can not believe how lucky I got. D:
Certs mean zip. I am transitioning out of IT and I have fixed more screwed up systems that certification people have done. I have zero confidence in certs.
Kind of strange that you refer to yourself as "dangerous" because you can use different server types. What are you really up to when no one is looking?
Experience is better. In the past I've seen people do "Cert Boot Camps" , where you go for 10 days' to go through all exams for the Microsoft or Cisco certs (Study/get shown only what you need to pass a test, in the morning and do the test in the afternoon) then walk out being "fully certified", but with zero actual work experience. I've then seen them walk straight in to a Teir3 or High level IT support role, then get fired within a month or 2 because they don't know how to do the actual job.
I am glad that I got experience with Microsoft Server 2016 on High School. For my MBO ICT Medewerker Niveau 3 that is called in Dutch they provided me a book what covers almost everything with Windows Server 2016. I think you can buy a book yourself and if you are lucky you might get a Windows Server license tho. I know Windows Server License does cost alot but you can try out for 30 days without paying for it. So if you want to know how Windows Server works. Just read the books.
I know a guy called Professor Messor and he has also a RUclips channel that covers alot of Exams for CompTIA certifications. He does also classes. So if you are into it. Join the classes and read the books. Very handsome.
The degree is the problem. So many companies won't even look at you if you don't have a 4 year degree in it. My buddy has a decade of experience but he can't get the pay he deserves because he only has an associates degree and Ends up getting call center / general IT type jobs will doing sys admin work as part of the deal without the requisite pay.
Never, you can start at 50. It just depends on the person and the willingness to learn. The only disadvantage is Age discrimination which is a real thing.
The most important is that work actually exists. The more picky employers are, the less job openings. Not to mention all friends and family ahead of you
@@praetorxyn I have a CIS degree from 99 and never officially worked in corporate, nor got any certs. However, always wanted to "officially" break in. That's my problem.
@@ConnorMarc I've never had any certs either, mostly because I'd have to do the studying "on my own time." if they'd pay me to get certified that'd be another thing.
Same here! Give me a practical exorcise to show my talents rather than answering questions! (Side note : When asked "What's your greatest weakness?" Don't answer your favourite singer/actor/actress, thought it can work if you play it just right... ) :-D
Retired IT. Last years of my career I would sometimes get Headhunters calling to poach me. They would gush about how in demand I was with my experience, and how much other companies would pay to have that experience... til I told them I never bothered to get any Certs. Suddenly, I wasnt good enough to work at those businesses
If you go into IT via Windows certifications / experience you'll work with windows for about 10 years before you can convince anyone to convert anything to linux, or even get an opportunity to work and get experience on commercial linux-based servers. There are plenty of linux-first based certifications, e.g.: - LINUX+ CompTIA. ... - RHCE- RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEER. ... - GCUX: GIAC CERTIFIED UNIX SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR. ... - ORACLE LINUX OCA & OCP. ... - LPI (LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE) CERTIFICATIONS etc.
@@techycompute3636 Even with a degree nothing is certain. I meet more and more sysadmins and network people with degrees that lost their jobs . Programming is the way to go.
@zizzy if SAP is focusing on Blockchain development then you are not wasting your time. After 20+ years in IT my consistent fear is many things like SAP will have more competitors...The upside? Jobs are created for these new companies but from my experience they arent long term. SAP is valuable though!
Thank you so much, Chris!
I've just finished my apprenticeship as an IT engineer in early 2018 and started my first full time IT job.
I was working for a company as the Sysadmin under one person and got into all kind of topics, kind of your version "jack of all trades".
But the issue was I was just working in an windows only environment for a small company without much room to grow, so
I just applied for a better job and got it with much more perspective for my career path, when it gets to certs and also variety of topics (aswell as pay :P).
As you say, when you are first starting out, you need to get those certs to start snowballing your career.
I'll keep watching your videos and really appreciate the variety of topics you are actually covering.
When some other young folks ask me how to get into IT enterprise I always tell them to be open for new topics and never respond
with words like "No, I can't do that" and rather "I have to admit that I don't have enough experience in this regards, but I will do my very best
to research this certain topic and do my tests untill I am confident with it".
From my perspective it always payed off.
Regards from germany!
Great video Chris. I'm getting into programming myself but those interview tips are golden. I can tell you speak from experience. Keep doing what you do!
I remember those days. Great video for young people! My respect.
BTW, the sound is good today
Thanks Chris, I recently got my A+ and had an interview for a Help Desk position. You were spot on with the interview questions lol.
You have a lot of good points, I got started in IT around the same time you did. Started with server 2000 back in the day, and started working with computer repair. To move past that point you need to really put yourself out there, get to know people in the industry, talk the talk, really familiarize yourself with as many technologies as possible, and be willing to take risks. Even then, IT is a constant learning battle. The company I was with for a very long time recently decided they no longer need IT and everything was going in the cloud, so away we went along with 250 other jobs. That’s the way the industry is, it’s fast moving. Now what I’m seeing is even industry certs aren’t even enough these days. A lot of companies I applied for I was automatically disqualified for the position because they wanted someone with a masters degree in computer science or related engineering field. It’s crazy if you want to get paid more than 50k a year you really need more than 10-15 years experience even. Heck, just as an example I applied for a job that was looking for someone with 7-10 years experience with kubernetes. If you know anything about kubernetes, you will know there isn’t a single person alive with that much experience lol. That’s at least the way the job market is around here having just spent 6 months looking for a job. You either take an entry level helpdesk position, or learn some super obscure programming language or learn database administration or something. Those are the trends in seeing right now in corporate IT. Unless you have all the fancy industry buzz words in your resume like dev ops, cloud, big data, and so in good luck out there! The hard part is that all these technologies are so new, you need to dedicate all of your free time away from the office just keeping up in industry trends to stay relevant. Now I’m not trying to scare people away from IT,I think it’s a great field to get into but make sure you know what you are getting into, and be willing to learn new things constantly. I hardly know anyone who stays in one place for very long anymore just with companies seeing IT as a cost center instead of a business enabler.
Just fix it in production. Yep heard that too many times! Haha!
Thank you Chris. Great advice. Taking a class in networking now.
Another great video. All these tips can be used in any interview situation. Selling yourself for a job in an interview is such a hard skill to master, very few do. This would be a very good tips and tricks for the interview training video.
Great content and tips Chris! Thank you!
Thank you for the tips Chris!
Currently DevOps and Cloud is selling like a hot cake. I'd say Microsoft Certified Azure Engineer and there's an equivalent in AWS, just FYI for starters.
This is a great point and opportunity.
Any of those new fancy buzzwords you can get in your resume will help that’s the way corporations are going. They all have a cloud first mentality. That and big data. Most jobs I’ve looked for in the past 6 months were al for azure or some database admin.
@@DIYDad1 meanwhile my company is pretty anti-cloud
they don't use services like AWS, Microsoft Azure etc. at all because of security concerns
but well, they are actually pretty good (for example, we had a major attack last month, the whole company didn't have access to the web for a few days because they shut the connection down to investigate; yep, they put security above everything else)
* Complete video is useful *
*No timestamp to post*
Thank you sir
What you described as a cheat sheet is basically my resume. I do ten bullet points for every position I've had lol
Great interview ideas and the cheat sheet is a winner. Thanks for sharing ...
Thank you for the advice especially the interview advice. I get quite nervous too. :).
Another great wideo. Thanks man.
Thank you Chris.
The "1" certification that will pay the most and is very challenging is PMI (Project Management) certification, , it's very tough to get and requires a lot of studying to pass the test, and then diversify/specialize in IT Projects. You will be set for a career.
yes, yes and yes thank you for that 👍👍👍
Certifications created it's own industry, classes, test centers, practice tests, etc. Produced a lot of "paper" MCSE that couldn't find a power switch. But they had a cert.
It's very important video for me.
I want to be a *SysAdmin*
Thanks for your help.
i once was interviewed by a CTO and Lawyer and HR, it was hard because mostly i was using technical jargon and the CTO reminded me to simply explain and not use any jargon so that they can understand.
I like networking, I'll be taking my network+ cert in a few weeks, i seen a vid saying network was not a good for growth, saying cloud is the future
Of course another important path into ICT is through College or University. I'm from Europe! I did College in Electronics in 1967 and in 1973 a 3-year evening course on Software Engineering (2x week 4 hours) from a well known University. I worked as prototype tester of main frames, Operating System designer, Software Development Manager (>100 developers) and Chief Architect in a large high tech organization.
When I was hiring people, I hired for 80 to 90% people with a college or university degree. Sometimes I hired other people and sometimes it has been a failure and half of the times it has been a success. Working free lance as chief architect, I met a lot of Software Engineers from large EU and US companies and almost all had a University Degree.
If you want to develop software and have a well paid career, go at least to College and preferably University.
Remember:
Everybody can build a block-hut, but few people are able to create a skyscraper.
Everybody can write a program, but few people can create e.g. a safe Air Traffic Management System.
I had past experience on telecom industry and home user experience. Fortunately I've been hired as Junior IT support and I am now enrolled for some certifications. If you are in UK just look out for some apprenticeship program or junior position ;)
off topic, were did you get that screensaver (matrix code), cant find a decent one like that, thanks in advance.
A great video , i need your advice if you may , i just got my CCNA and a lot of people are telling me to start learning about servers to round up my knowledge , so my question is do i need to learn about servers and if so which certification should i go for , after microsoft retired the MCSA , should i go for a linux cert and if so which one to start with , please help a confused newbie thank you so much
note that i don't have any work experience but i am planning on studying for certifications while working
RedHat Certs are great as they are all HANDS ON practical and very stressful done a lot of them. Just they expire in 2-3 years and endless nightmare of trying to keep them current.
Oh! my dream job a system admin, : D
yes , i also thinking to get certificate but don't know which one i should get first . actually i want to become IT system integrator ,but i don't have any certificate or solid experience
Good! hey man, what do you think if a take Comptia Security + to get the
entry level/ IT suport??? i already have MTA Networking and Google IT
Support Certification. Thank you!
So, off topic question, what mic do u have?
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the video, please what are the certifications one should acquire to become a network administrator.
What about CCNA ?
If you're looking for it.
Please do indepth inquiry about the trainer . If the trainer has good skills to elaborate basic concepts then and only then go for it.
On youtube - follow
networkchuk
David bombal.
@@ajinkyakandalkar9643 Thank you very much. I did some checks on some schools here in Lagos that are pretty good but...its either one story or another.
Btw I already follow those channels. Thanks once again
Learn to fly. That made me very much less nervous.
I have had my first job in it. I live in Germany, just did my abitur and got that job for working until I start studying. I learned much. I went in without much knowledge about docker, Sama (for Active directory), but I had desktop linux knowledge to the point that I was pretty familiar with bash scripting, networking. It worked, although it took me time to understand active directory. That was a bad time though, because I used a docker container which just did not work at all. It took me some time to figure that out. I dont know what that guy did or how he got that number of downloads, he had like 100k in the docker hub. Anyways, I fixed it. I am interested in seeing if he adds a license to his container so I can give him a pull request with the fixes...
I was a SAP support specialist and it was quite a technical role talking to end-users which is fun since they use the same language I do. However I got laid off after 8 years in that company and now I am doing NetSuite implementation. The company is good and the technology is great however it's 80% customer facing and it's less technical. I plan to get out in a month or two and go back to SAP doing more technical work. I am quite an introvert (however me self-declaring this invalidates it lol)
Am I doomed?
Chris, what's your greener pasture OS? I am very curious about it!
I would say Gentoo but pastures on Gentoo's world are not green but cover with blood and tears.. 😅
Please make a video about
Building Android Rom from official source code and flash it to smartphone
Advice.
The correct answer is ... Of course I'm qualified, I just watched a Titustech video 10 minutes ago on you tube :)
soon
Guys in the first level of mastery, are usually called managers
I wish you were wrong... Lol
@@ChrisTitusTech yup, me too
You're a pretty good speaker. Witout saying shit.
What are small businesses doing now if they don't have in house servers and/or an IT person at least on call as a consultant?
Most do very basic contract support. Also most the servers are cloud based now where they don't have physical on-site hardware. So the only thing they need is a working computer and an internet connection.
Chris Titus Tech
Thanks!
So do they tend to use Amazon Web Services or something else?
Depends, most change their line of business apps to cloud based providers. So they don't even have to manage any servers even remotely.
I can't make music using Ableton live 10 and 3rd party plugins on Linux. I need my midi keyboard and audio interface, I don't have time to re-learn everything, I was only interested in Linux for ethical hacking.
which networking is the best in demand. cnna ,ccnp, or anything else
I would say ccna and they are combining the ccna cetifications so if you get one now you get grandfathered in
I have watched some older videos of eli the computer guy and he had a ccna toilet paper on the background! That tells a lot!
So did I get lucky? I will start a apprenticeship in 1 week as an IT systemintegrator(school certificate) and the company I will learn in put me in the Systemadminstration Team. I am doing a internship right now there too.
I can not believe how lucky I got. D:
Certs mean zip. I am transitioning out of IT and I have fixed more screwed up systems that certification people have done. I have zero confidence in certs.
Buddy Shearer aint that the truth! I’ve met some real doozies over the years!
Great video! What happens if I *am* the smartest guy in the room? :) j/k Thanks for posting!
Kind of strange that you refer to yourself as "dangerous" because you can use different server types. What are you really up to when no one is looking?
Do IT certifications matter?
They do when you first start out. Experience is really what matters the most though.
Experience is better. In the past I've seen people do "Cert Boot Camps" , where you go for 10 days' to go through all exams for the Microsoft or Cisco certs (Study/get shown only what you need to pass a test, in the morning and do the test in the afternoon) then walk out being "fully certified", but with zero actual work experience.
I've then seen them walk straight in to a Teir3 or High level IT support role, then get fired within a month or 2 because they don't know how to do the actual job.
At first yes, but experience will always trump anything
I am glad that I got experience with Microsoft Server 2016 on High School. For my MBO ICT Medewerker Niveau 3 that is called in Dutch they provided me a book what covers almost everything with Windows Server 2016. I think you can buy a book yourself and if you are lucky you might get a Windows Server license tho. I know Windows Server License does cost alot but you can try out for 30 days without paying for it. So if you want to know how Windows Server works. Just read the books.
I know a guy called Professor Messor and he has also a RUclips channel that covers alot of Exams for CompTIA certifications. He does also classes. So if you are into it. Join the classes and read the books. Very handsome.
Whatl age is too old to get your "start" in this industry?
The degree is the problem. So many companies won't even look at you if you don't have a 4 year degree in it. My buddy has a decade of experience but he can't get the pay he deserves because he only has an associates degree and Ends up getting call center / general IT type jobs will doing sys admin work as part of the deal without the requisite pay.
Never, you can start at 50. It just depends on the person and the willingness to learn. The only disadvantage is Age discrimination which is a real thing.
The most important is that work actually exists. The more picky employers are, the less job openings. Not to mention all friends and family ahead of you
@@praetorxyn I have a CIS degree from 99 and never officially worked in corporate, nor got any certs. However, always wanted to "officially" break in.
That's my problem.
@@ConnorMarc I've never had any certs either, mostly because I'd have to do the studying "on my own time." if they'd pay me to get certified that'd be another thing.
Yeah I don't know shit. 15 years in. My greatest weakness is interviews.
Same here! Give me a practical exorcise to show my talents rather than answering questions!
(Side note :
When asked "What's your greatest weakness?" Don't answer your favourite singer/actor/actress, thought it can work if you play it just right... ) :-D
Retired IT. Last years of my career I would sometimes get Headhunters calling to poach me. They would gush about how in demand I was with my experience, and how much other companies would pay to have that experience... til I told them I never bothered to get any Certs. Suddenly, I wasnt good enough to work at those businesses
If you go into IT via Windows certifications / experience you'll work with windows for about 10 years before you can convince anyone to convert anything to linux, or even get an opportunity to work and get experience on commercial linux-based servers.
There are plenty of linux-first based certifications, e.g.:
- LINUX+ CompTIA. ...
- RHCE- RED HAT CERTIFIED ENGINEER. ...
- GCUX: GIAC CERTIFIED UNIX SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR. ...
- ORACLE LINUX OCA & OCP. ...
- LPI (LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE) CERTIFICATIONS
etc.
How to get into IT work?
Dont say LEARN TO CODE.. that can get you banned some places
The best way to go is programming. Networking-sysadmin field is overcrowded with people that have certifications.
Thats why you need a degree.
@@techycompute3636 Even with a degree nothing is certain. I meet more and more sysadmins and network people with degrees that lost their jobs . Programming is the way to go.
*advice?
Lol, add spelling things correctly to my advice
@@killaken2000 et cetera... exetra...
@@ChrisTitusTech it's okay, you've filled your noggin with Linux, to fix it you need to delete the Micro$haft information!
Anyone staring his background terminal😂
Retired from IT:
Went to college for Mechanical Engineering,
got IT job,
never got any IT Certs
@zizzy if SAP is focusing on Blockchain development then you are not wasting your time. After 20+ years in IT my consistent fear is many things like SAP will have more competitors...The upside? Jobs are created for these new companies but from my experience they arent long term. SAP is valuable though!