Hey fellas I'm going through a life changing week at the moment and I'm looking to get into a decent IT job. I'm no noob to PC's (been using since 486 days) but just don't have the paper work to back up my knowledge. So my question is what TAFE course/s are recommended?

Are you thinking of going to university after tafe?

Don't go to tafe, if you want to hit the ground running and give you a head start do a A+ Cert ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Plus_Certification )

That's a great course if you want to make a career out of installing windows for people

what IT route do you want to take?

Yeah, alot of the answer would be irrelevant depending on where you want to go in IT.

For programmers there's nothing more useful than industry experience and a computer science/software engineering degree to back it up.

Depending on where you want to go in networking, getting in the door can be alot simpler than a degree, by getting a industry certificate or 2.

But to be honest, i've not heard of / seen any useful tafe courses, most of them seem pretty rubbish, except to get your self into uni.

Don't go to tafe, if you want to hit the ground running and give you a head start do a A+ Cert

Fixed.

To study for the exam, the following materials are needed:

* A PC with Microsoft Windows
* Grounding pad
* Anti Static Wrist Strap (ESD Bracelet or Ground Bracelet)
* Phillips head screwdriver
* Flat head screwdriver
* Calculator

Hehe.

heh IT

Don't go to tafe, if you want to hit the ground running and give you a head start do a A+ Cert ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Plus_Certification )

.... Useless certification unless you aspire to be a s*** kicking r'tard doing monkey work at the local home repair shop or Harvey Norman, etc. Go to TAFE or uni (depending on your interests and what you want to do) and invest some time. See if you can pick up casual contract work (weekend/night roll outs, etc). Horrible career choice by the way. I fell back onto IT as my plan B after a medical condition canned plan A. Horrible line of work :)

last edited by Twisted at 09:44:00 15/Sep/08

Depends what you want to do in 5 years time.

but just don't have the paper work to back up my knowledge

Depending on what area you have "knowledge" in, there is always the option of skipping the course and just doing the exam, e.g. msce or ccna etc.

well I was thinking maybe a network admin type job but seems tafe sounds like a waste of time?? I'm not to keen uni.

well I was thinking maybe a network admin type job but seems tafe sounds like a waste of time?? I'm not to keen uni.

Well, if you've got the knowledge just go sit the certs then hit up some recruitment agencies.

Juniper certification path.
Cisco certification path.
CompTIA.

last edited by Twisted at 12:07:11 15/Sep/08

apply like a madman to any support job thats advertised, theres lots;

be prepared to work for nothing:

work in support work for s*** money, on call all the time for a few years, get experience

repeat

You could also check out this thread.

well I was thinking maybe a network admin type job but seems tafe sounds like a waste of time?? I'm not to keen uni.

TAFE is as good as any qualification to get your foot in the door for Administration roles. The question is, why are thinking of Administration over the vast majority of roles within IT, and why aren't you keen on Uni?

For network admin type stuff, the uni degree is basically useless, unless you plan on getting into high end data networks type stuff.

Microsoft or Cisco Certification is going to be your best bet. Depends which path you want to go, microsoft and cisco skills are pretty far apart, and most people that know one dont know the other too well.

Microsoft cert is probably the easier way to go and probably going to be more people illing to give you a job without much industry experience if you have microsoft certs, whereas even if you have cisco certs but no industry experience, it would be hard to get a cisco related job.

IT is sooo nineteen ninety five


get mcsa/mcse.. jobs in EU with that cert are well paid

yeah i want to be one of the black guys selling sprite just to the east of amsterdam centraal :DD