New IT job

funkyCable · 28-09-2005, 14:19

Looking for IT work, I have experience of building PC, I have A+ and Network+ and plan on obtaining my MCSE . If you know any vacancy or no anybody in the industry please PM for more details. I am confident, reliable and a hard worker. I am looking for anything around central London, SE london or East london or Kent, I do have my own vechicle.

Many Thanks for your time

Scarlett · 28-09-2005, 15:25

Not a job offer but...

Jobserve

CW jobs

Planet Recruit

These are three that I use.

Get you CV up to scratch and get it registered with these sites and select the 'let all agencies see it' option. You should start to get calls from them asking if your looking for work.

Scarlett.

28-09-2005, 15:34

Its good you got yer qualifications, but as someon that works in the IT industry I can advise you WILL find it hard to get in.

The main problem now is that kids leaving college, especially up in the North East are already either MCSE or well on their way, The Uni's are pumping out people with a degree in IT. These kids will undercut anyone that wants a respectable wage. So unless you would work for less than 13,000 a year (IN the north east) your screwed.

www.cwjobs.co.uk
and monster jobs are the two best I have found.

I get a lot of agencies calling me because of my specs on monster.

Gareth · 28-09-2005, 16:21

When you say you want to work in IT, what exactly do you want to do? 'IT' is a varied industry. Do you want to repair broken PCs? Do you want to be a Sys Admin? Do you want to be a code monkey? Do you want to be a network guru? Do you want to do application support?

Like TimeWarrior says, some form of qualification is a good start but isn't enough on its own to get you a job. Qualification plus experience is essential nowadays, although that in itself can be a catch-22 situation as you can't get experience unless you have a job yet you can't get a job unless you have experience.

Depending upon your circumstances, you could try getting that elusive experience by volunteering to do some work free of charge for a local school or a small business.

funkyCable · 29-09-2005, 08:39

I am looking at repairing broken machines and applications support.

Do companies still take on volunteers? I thought this was a thing of the past due to labour laws?

Ignition · 29-09-2005, 09:26

As previously mentioned Monster is your friend, a lot of agencies use it and I got my most recent job through there.

Not sure if MCSE will do much for you at the moment if your only experience to date is in building PCs though.

Perhaps some self-employment would be in order, advertise your services troubleshooting and repairing PCs to people, undercut PC World a little bit

Might not make you rich but will give you the experience you absolutely need, at the moment you're competing with graduates and sadly A+ and Network+ don't mean that much.

**Paul** · 29-09-2005, 11:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scarlett

Not a job offer but...

Jobserve

CW jobs

I'll second them, I got my current job via CW Jobs, and one of the guys who works with me got his via Jobserve.

GazzaB · 29-09-2005, 11:57

I'm a self employed PC Technician, left Ntl last October and haven't looked back! It's not easy though there are a lot of people out there doing similar kind of things, there are some right cowboys though as well so if you do your job properly- word/recommendations will spread as it seems to be doing for me and my business partner!

handyman · 29-09-2005, 12:39

Nice web site gazza, what sort of prices do you charge?

I've been thinking of setting up a similar thing as well.

hm

grandmaster · 29-09-2005, 12:47

That is a nice easy to read site,

Except it looks like incredible hulks girlfriend is pointing at the computer screen

I also thought about going self employed, as i do so many other peoples PC's.

To the OP:

Have a look and see if there are any local PC shops that would offer you a part time placement.

skyblueheroes · 29-09-2005, 13:00

Nice site !

I stumbled into IT via a job in the Financial Services Industry. I started testing for that company, and eventually got outsourced to a proper IT company doing the same job (and now for a different client).

I want to do a qualification and am starting at MCDST. It adds up to count towards other awards eventually (and if I can find time to read the book) !