IT Qualifications?
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Corfate
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Frenchy
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Im in the same career boat. I did an IT engineering diploma level 2 for 2 years at school, then I moved to a ocr national extended diploma in ict in college and hopefully I am starting computer science at Coventry uni in 2 weeks.
Any idea what languages you will be covering?
BirKy
Silver Level Poster
Think the other thing to consider is getting a degree doesnt always guarantee you a job. Graduate starting wages seem to be getting worse on average. Sometimes experience and starting somewhere from the ground up seems a lot more logical than doing 3-4 years in a degree and ending up with debt and a worse wage than if you got a job after school/college! Apprentiships seem awesome nowadays!
Apprentiships seem awesome nowadays!
Frenchy
Prolific Poster
Think the other thing to consider is getting a degree doesnt always guarantee you a job. Graduate starting wages seem to be getting worse on average. Sometimes experience and starting somewhere from the ground up seems a lot more logical than doing 3-4 years in a degree and ending up with debt and a worse wage than if you got a job after school/college!
I do agree, however it tends to be because there are so many pointless degrees out there and far too many people going, this is why the degree is worth less these days. To make a degree worthwhile it really needs to be in a specialist field, for example aeronautical engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer sceiince (the big subjects basically)
MadMan
Super Star
Nope not sure yet but I know im doing some software development
Frenchy
Prolific Poster
Yeah Java is a great language to start with tbh, keeps it simple yet still very powerful language. Id say that and C# are two of the best languages to start with.
I do think there should be more standard C incorporated in courses though, learnign about memory management I think is a massive bonus, and pointers too. (as much as I hate them)
MeveM
Bright Spark
Do you need any type of IT qualifications to get a job with PCs when it comes to hardware? I'm highly qualified in building, qualificed to drive a ton of different construction vehicles but, I'm not using any of it, I have no interest in it what so ever, and I also buggered my back in during the period I got all the qualifications, (even got a lumber jack qualification ) but as I said, got no interest in it what so ever, whilst I love to have a fiddle inside PC's, I'll admit I've not done much, I've always been too scared to mess with the CPU and the thermal pastes etc, because I've watched my older brother and his mates build PC's when I was younger, and the cooling paste always worried me a bit. all I know is, it interests me and I'd love to be the bloke who just stands and builds PC's. Guess it'd be seriously hard to get such a job though, it'd be custome PC's like PCS makes that'd be interesting, not working at like Dell and standing and making the same PC day in and day out like a factory worker.
) but as I said, got no interest in it what so ever, whilst I love to have a fiddle inside PC's, I'll admit I've not done much, I've always been too scared to mess with the CPU and the thermal pastes etc, because I've watched my older brother and his mates build PC's when I was younger, and the cooling paste always worried me a bit. all I know is, it interests me and I'd love to be the bloke who just stands and builds PC's. Guess it'd be seriously hard to get such a job though, it'd be custome PC's like PCS makes that'd be interesting, not working at like Dell and standing and making the same PC day in and day out like a factory worker.
Frenchy
Prolific Poster
Do you need any type of IT qualifications to get a job with PCs when it comes to hardware? I'm highly qualified in building, qualificed to drive a ton of different construction vehicles but, I'm not using any of it, I have no interest in it what so ever, and I also buggered my back in during the period I got all the qualifications, (even got a lumber jack qualification
you dont need qualifications, however experience is always a plus. If you can, get ur hands on an old pc, pentium 2 or sumit, figure out all the parts, how they work, read up on how they interact with eachother and just apply to loads of places. As long as you show your passion for the job youll be fine.
DanteWilhelm
Bright Spark
now I have my new pc i can just mess about with my old one, i've already taken it apart loads of times but this time I won't have to put t back otgther or if something breaks it doesn't matter
i asked someone how they got into it
they said they read books etc then worked on an IT helpline, then found an employer who would pay for his training and course, ive forgotten the acronym, ME thats part of it, microsoft server admin qualification
as soon as I get a lead I will start feeling optimistic about this, I do manual labour right now and I want a change.
I may not be extremely intelligent when it comes to mathematics or physics but you should always utilize your knowledge of what you know the most about right?
i asked someone how they got into it
they said they read books etc then worked on an IT helpline, then found an employer who would pay for his training and course, ive forgotten the acronym, ME thats part of it, microsoft server admin qualification
as soon as I get a lead I will start feeling optimistic about this, I do manual labour right now and I want a change.
I may not be extremely intelligent when it comes to mathematics or physics but you should always utilize your knowledge of what you know the most about right?
DanteWilhelm
Bright Spark
YO WHAT'S UP DAWG
I HEARD YOU LIKE TO SPAM SO I PUT SOME SPAM IN YOUR SPAM SO YOU CAN SPAM WHILST YOU SPAM.
Edit by Rakk: watch your language please, I know it was a spammer, but still, also don't reply to spammers please, report them and they will get deleted
Anyway I have found this company, Zenos, going to do an apprenticeship with them.
I HEARD YOU LIKE TO SPAM SO I PUT SOME SPAM IN YOUR SPAM SO YOU CAN SPAM WHILST YOU SPAM.
Edit by Rakk: watch your language please, I know it was a spammer, but still, also don't reply to spammers please, report them and they will get deleted
Anyway I have found this company, Zenos, going to do an apprenticeship with them.
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Corfate
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That looks pretty good actually.. I'll take a look into that when it comes round to me looking for places
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DanteWilhelm
Bright Spark
hey rakk I'm sorry man but I have no consideration for anyone when they are blatantly in charge of a massive botnet, hiding away like cowards.
I hate cowards and am the angry kind of person who wants to bash some skulls in, that's the truth. Wouldn't you like to find all the people who gave you viruses or scammed your friends and break their necks?
I hate cowards and am the angry kind of person who wants to bash some skulls in, that's the truth. Wouldn't you like to find all the people who gave you viruses or scammed your friends and break their necks?
DanteWilhelm
Bright Spark
Hey Corftte
http://www.zenos.com/locations
I'm going to do it in Brighton if they do it there, funnily enough I got the train back from Brighton a few hours ago, guess what? The Zenos place is right near the train station and I didn't see it xD
So yeah look on that link and see if there is one near you, they are the leading IT apprenticeship company, it looks too good to be true, no debt? earn a wage? If I can live down there I'll do it.
I will freezing well do it!!!
http://www.zenos.com/locations
I'm going to do it in Brighton if they do it there, funnily enough I got the train back from Brighton a few hours ago, guess what? The Zenos place is right near the train station and I didn't see it xD
So yeah look on that link and see if there is one near you, they are the leading IT apprenticeship company, it looks too good to be true, no debt? earn a wage? If I can live down there I'll do it.
I will freezing well do it!!!
Corfate
Author Level
The nearest one to me in in Leeds, an hour away
Going to be a trek every day...It does sound very good, possibly too good to be true.. But i'll look into it some more..
+Rep for you finding it!
That's all fine and well, however, if you just report it, we can just delete it without many people having to see such rubbish and it'll keep threads much more in line with what it was supposed to be about - the chances are the spammers would never even bother to read any responses anyways.
DanteWilhelm
Bright Spark
I did report it
Ok I get what you mean, understood.
Ok I get what you mean, understood.
DanteWilhelm
Bright Spark
The nearest one to me in in Leeds, an hour away
It does sound very good, possibly too good to be true.. But i'll look into it some more..
+Rep for you finding it!
i guess if it was a scam google would say
to be safe, every time i see something on the net you google the word followed by the word scam
so i would just google zenos scam, i would even google pcs scam, i've googled EVERYTHING + scam
to be safe. PLUS when you do this it comes up with people defending the company and normally results in you finding confirmation of the company/organization's validity from trusted sources
win win