The biggest complaint I have is the labelling of the certification programs. You get a driver’s license, you can drive. You get an Amazon Solutions Architect Certification, and you can’t be a solutions architect??? What gives?
There’s so much confusion about the role of being a solutions architect that I will be doing a video on this topic very soon and explain why your certification doesn’t mean you can get a solutions architect job.
Between the groups I teach, mentor and coach and my day job, I wish I can do more for you all. I will be creating a video in the very near future to explain this in detail to hope it doesn’t cause more confusion. For all of you, follow my resume advice and apply for those jobs. It’s all there, there’s minimal tricks.
To get a job with a certification but minimal skills – Make sure you focus on jobs that state “1-2 years experience”, not the jobs asking for “5-10 years”. Forget the title. Do searches for “Cloud” in the title. For the ones requiring experience of 1-2 years, your certification will give you 80 points/100 points to get that interview. Some examples of jobs can be “Cloud Analyst, Cloud Support Engineer, Cloud Associate, administrator, operations, etc”. However, some smaller companies mis-match these word titles, in which case, focus on the 1-2 years. See these examples:
Here is another junior role that you can probably get with a proper resume:
To get the job, make sure you follow the resume videos, the interview videos. Also, make sure to watch my whiteboard video (click the URL to my YouTube and learn about the Whiteboard video). I’ll explain why this matters, and how you can land an IT job with that skill.
Quick skills to learn: Learn Linux, learn basic scripting, and learn networking. If you need to submit a resume now, watch my resume video on how to put this in your resume now – but get trained before you get a job.
This one is a quick blog. Many exciting things happening. Stay tuned – once my YouTube gets close to 100 viewers, I will launch an awesome video with a big surprise. (Should be a day or two away).
P.S. I’m super excited, some of you gave me an update and I’m extremely humbled at your emails. Thank you so much! Also, for those in my network that reached out to want to help my viewers, I’ll be reaching out to you as well. You’re all awesome!
Stay safe everyone!
Rick@ITJob.Coach
ITJob.Coach 