Salary.com has a lot of the information you are looking for, especially the job description side of things. Take a look at all of the descriptions and you should be able to find out where you fit in. Keep in mind that there are subtle gradients between many different titles, so you'll need to try to be fair about it. It's easy to try to reach into a higher description to make yourself look good.
You mention that you've learned a bunch of languages in the past few months, and while I'm sure you got a lot out of it, most hiring managers will expect at least a few years of regular work with a language before they consider that you *know* it. Also keep that in mind as you're looking at the job descriptions. Once you have compiled a list and pinpointed the right title for you, you should be able to present to whoever the list of things you do, then point them to the salary.com site and they can see for themselves what level you should be. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Johnson, Jonathon W SPC RES USA USARC <[email protected]> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > I need some other opinions on how I should go about handling my situation. > Right now, I'm the only person IT person in my organization, effectively > making me the computer tech, sysadmin, netadmin, Security analyst, database > admin, webmaster, website application developer, network application > developer/tester, etc etc. I work for the government, so my job title > determines my pay (i.e. My situation: 1 slot for IT (Computer Tech 1)). I > am wanting to get my job title seriously upgraded because right now I'm > slotted as a 'Computer Tech level 1'. > > My job description was even edited to say I'd never need to even know HTML > and now here I am learning 2 and 3 programming languages a month to create > the apps I need and the apps/webpage's/database interfaces that my company > wants. In the past month or two I've learned advanced SQL querying, ASP, > ASP.NET, VBscript again (with ASP), CSS, C++, C#, and I'm sure there's quite > a few more. My supervisors are completely IT illiterate and don't have a > clue what IT is much less what goes into making these things tick that they > want. I've tried to ask if there was any way I could get someone else to > assist me, but because this is a gov't contract, there have to be positions > allotted by the gov't to do that, which, there is only one IT slot; Me. > > Is there any good way to approach IT illiterate people and explain to them, > more or less, "...this is what I do all day...","...this is what a computer > tech level 1 (my current job title) does all day....","...this is about what > the first description is getting paid about......here's some example job > descriptions and estimates....","...that's [umpteen] more than I'm getting > paid now...","pay me what I'm worth or pay for some of my certifications or > I'll find somewhere better to go and this is what will happen if I go since > there's no one else in my dept who knows how the system works...." (yes it's > all documented). While I don't plan on threatening by any means, that was > just an example. > > When I first joined the company, everything was just great and I thought > "They're paying me to do this? Wow!" Now for some reason, it's project > after project on top of project, all of which I usually have to learn > something new and then turn around program, test, and launch a new app, then > teach everyone how to use it. > > I'm typically a very nice person, which is my downfall most of the time, > like in this conundrum I'm in. > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Jonathon Johnson, IASO > Sys. Admin. > Fort Gordon, GA 30905 > > "When you do things right, people won't > be sure you've done anything at all." > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
