[AusNOG] Getting into the industry?

[Phillip Grasso]

you might want to reconsider industries, or try to perhaps learn
programming / coding, add that to the networking skills you've acquired and
i doubt you'll have problems finding opportunities.

On 23 September 2015 at 13:37, W. Marks <w.z.marks at gmail.com> wrote:

> I apologise in advance if this is the wrong place to post stuff like this,
> but I was hoping on getting some advice for getting into the
> telecomms/networking industry.
> I graduated a BA in infotech (specialising in network tech) a year and a
> half ago, and have been working a casual job as an IT fix-it monkey for a
> year now, but my efforts looking for something fulltime and/or more
> specialised in the industry haven't turned up anything. I got an interview
> with Cisco in Sydney once earlier this year but that's about as far as I've
> gotten.
> It seems like everyone is looking for a lot of highly specialised
> experience, like specific technologies from specific vendors. I'm not sure
> where I'm supposed to obtain this kind of experience from without being
> trained on the job. At this point I'd settle for an internship if it
> exposed me to some kind of employable experience but I can't seem to find
> that either.
> How did the rest of you get your start in the industry? I'm not looking
> for a silver bullet but any kind of direction would be appreciated.
>
> - Will Marks
>
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