What are the highest paying IT careers?
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@travisdh1 said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@jmoore said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@tim_g said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
If one were to search those types of jobs on indeed for example,
It could just be me but I am thinking the jobs on Indeed are on the verge of fraudulent. There are so many in the tech fields that seem unrealistic. Again it could just be me and when I was looking, but there were many IT jobs that wanted at least 5 years experience in a networking, system admins, sql expert and so on with 5 years experience in each category.
Each job was different but it was some combination of skills that just seemed unrealistic such as jobs with 15 years experince in both Linux and Windows admins. When I would try to contact about these jobs to see if they would entertain a person with less experience I could never get in touch with anyone, ever. I'll never use Indeed again because I think many or most of those IT jobs are just fraudulent but maybe thats just my experience.
Remember that I said 85% of job listings anywhere are fake .... and that was back when people had to pay to post them!
Do you know of any good headhunters accepting new people? Some of us could really use good help.
We don’t use headhunters at our company and everything is posted on our jobs site. (VMware.jobs)
I’ve posted my referral link before for gigs. Something like 2/3 of our hires come internal references.General advise is:
Get to know employees of the company you want to work for. I was referred by the chief technologist in the BU. That likely went a ways towards making sure I got a call back.
I wrote some blogs that he liked, and met him at a conference. Go to conferences.
We hire all over the place for Field SEs. We have to staff weird regions or accounts (Like Kansas City) all the time.
We hire for PSO all the time. Be willing to fly anywhere and travel 80% and you can get a job.
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@travisdh1 said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
If you'd like a local address, I have a house for sale, though!
Yeah, and with no income I doubt I'd be able to buy a house, even a dirt cheap house.
Sigh, NiNJa (No income No Job) Loans are not a thing anymore...
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@storageninja said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@travisdh1 said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@jmoore said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@tim_g said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
If one were to search those types of jobs on indeed for example,
It could just be me but I am thinking the jobs on Indeed are on the verge of fraudulent. There are so many in the tech fields that seem unrealistic. Again it could just be me and when I was looking, but there were many IT jobs that wanted at least 5 years experience in a networking, system admins, sql expert and so on with 5 years experience in each category.
Each job was different but it was some combination of skills that just seemed unrealistic such as jobs with 15 years experince in both Linux and Windows admins. When I would try to contact about these jobs to see if they would entertain a person with less experience I could never get in touch with anyone, ever. I'll never use Indeed again because I think many or most of those IT jobs are just fraudulent but maybe thats just my experience.
Remember that I said 85% of job listings anywhere are fake .... and that was back when people had to pay to post them!
Do you know of any good headhunters accepting new people? Some of us could really use good help.
We don’t use headhunters at our company and everything is posted on our jobs site. (VMware.jobs)
I’ve posted my referral link before for gigs. Something like 2/3 of our hires come internal references.General advise is:
Get to know employees of the company you want to work for. I was referred by the chief technologist in the BU. That likely went a ways towards making sure I got a call back.
I wrote some blogs that he liked, and met him at a conference. Go to conferences.
We hire all over the place for Field SEs. We have to staff weird regions or accounts (Like Kansas City) all the time.
We hire for PSO all the time. Be willing to fly anywhere and travel 80% and you can get a job.
I was wondering why no one mentioned Pre-Sales or Technical Marketing until now. And there's also Product Management too, but I'm not sure if many sysadmins can make that leap.
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@storageninja said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
Get to know employees of the company you want to work for. I was referred by the chief technologist in the BU. That likely went a ways towards making sure I got a call back.
I wrote some blogs that he liked, and met him at a conference. Go to conferences.good advice here.
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@networknerd said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@storageninja said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@travisdh1 said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@jmoore said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@tim_g said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
If one were to search those types of jobs on indeed for example,
It could just be me but I am thinking the jobs on Indeed are on the verge of fraudulent. There are so many in the tech fields that seem unrealistic. Again it could just be me and when I was looking, but there were many IT jobs that wanted at least 5 years experience in a networking, system admins, sql expert and so on with 5 years experience in each category.
Each job was different but it was some combination of skills that just seemed unrealistic such as jobs with 15 years experince in both Linux and Windows admins. When I would try to contact about these jobs to see if they would entertain a person with less experience I could never get in touch with anyone, ever. I'll never use Indeed again because I think many or most of those IT jobs are just fraudulent but maybe thats just my experience.
Remember that I said 85% of job listings anywhere are fake .... and that was back when people had to pay to post them!
Do you know of any good headhunters accepting new people? Some of us could really use good help.
We don’t use headhunters at our company and everything is posted on our jobs site. (VMware.jobs)
I’ve posted my referral link before for gigs. Something like 2/3 of our hires come internal references.General advise is:
Get to know employees of the company you want to work for. I was referred by the chief technologist in the BU. That likely went a ways towards making sure I got a call back.
I wrote some blogs that he liked, and met him at a conference. Go to conferences.
We hire all over the place for Field SEs. We have to staff weird regions or accounts (Like Kansas City) all the time.
We hire for PSO all the time. Be willing to fly anywhere and travel 80% and you can get a job.
I was wondering why no one mentioned Pre-Sales or Technical Marketing until now. And there's also Product Management too, but I'm not sure if many sysadmins can make that leap.
Because they are not IT careers
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@networknerd said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
I was wondering why no one mentioned Pre-Sales or Technical Marketing until now. And there's also Product Management too, but I'm not sure if many sysadmins can make that leap.
Pre-Sales is easy (most are former Sysadmins), Technical Marketing (there's just not a lot of positions in the industry open, but starting pay (See link for a lower level position) isn't that bad. Note vendor to vendor the "technical" and corresponding pay can vary quite a bit. For a lot of companies, this is just a "mildly more tech-focused" marketing while for others they want high levels of technical capability.
Product marketing is something that some can make the leap (Allen Renouf is a good example) but many are MBA, or ex-engineers.
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@mike-davis said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@storageninja said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
Get to know employees of the company you want to work for. I was referred by the chief technologist in the BU. That likely went a ways towards making sure I got a call back.
I wrote some blogs that he liked, and met him at a conference. Go to conferences.good advice here.
Here's his (the guy who referred me) advice on how to advance your career.
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/02/24/how-do-i-get-to-the-next-level/
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2016/05/26/get-next-level-part-2/ -
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
Because they are not IT careers
They are careers that require IT skills (despite not being directly in the IO path), and are attainable by IT staff.
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@storageninja said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
@scottalanmiller said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:
Because they are not IT careers
They are careers that require IT skills (despite not being directly in the IO path), and are attainable by IT staff.
Lots of things are attainable by IT staff.
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@storageninja Thanks appreciate that information!
