On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Antoni wrote: > I am a recent Graduate of the Comtech Network program. In this course I > completed my A+ service technician certificate and a MCP (Microsoft > Certified Professional) certificate. Let me guess, they told you it would be easy to get a job once you had one of these silly certification things. > From previous employment I have gained much customer service and > excellent communication skills. Do you mean that your employer gave you much customer service? > I was hoping that one of you guys out their might know of any > entry-level roles that might be available in the IT industry, if not I > believe that volunteering for 6-12 weeks will give me the exposure > needed in order to secure a role in the industry as it's very difficult > getting buy those blood sucking agencies! Antoni I don't think you are going to get a favourable response here. Let me see, your first post to SLUG was on 24th of November to see which web address you could use to contact everyone on SLUG. Then on the 28th, just 4 days later, you post again with a message just like this one, trying to get some work saying you have your MCP certificate. Just to sweeten the pie you post in both text and HTML formats. You then improve, on the 30th of Nov you start a thread on which books would be good for learning Linux. You get some points back for that one. On the 12th of Dec another message to solicit a job, you do mentioned that "I know that a few weeks ago I sent out a similar message but it was in that evil HTML format, so some of you guys might not have gotten the message." More like ignored. Terry Collins replied to this with some web sites for you to try. Now again in Feb we get another plea. What happened to learning Linux, where are the questions about you having gotten it installed but you can't get your video card to work? Or the questions about getting samba to communicate with your NT machine? > As experience is essential in acquiring a foot-hold in the IT industry, > I hope that their might be a work experience opportunity available. Also essential is having a clue. Someone sprouting an MCP certificate trying multiple times on a Linux list to solicit work, without showing any sign of being part of the community is going to get you zip. > If anyone can help I would certainly appreciate it. Tony, I think you need to help yourself first. I wish you the best in your endevours to find a position in the IT industry. Yes it is hard, but I think you are going to have to change your strategy. Don't let my flame discourage your interest in Linux thought. Give it a try. If you have any problems give us a yell here and we will help all we can, thats what this list IS for. Rodos -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: Camion Technology | 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft +61 2 9873 5105 | ships it anyway'. [unknown] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
