A person I’ve been mentoring wanted help to transition in to a career that would pay more, have more growth options, and allowed him to move on and do bigger and better things. I’ll call this person Peter, to make the case simple.
Peter worked over 8 years as a PC technician, he goes into the office each and every day (and now remotely) to deploy windows machines, servers, desktops and laptops. He troubleshoots, and manages customer issues every day. Everyone was telling him he can make a lot more money and that cloud is exploding. He knew how to troubleshoot PC’s and networking, so he worked hard to get his cloud certification. Now what?
Here is a video I made of the topic that summarizes what I wrote:
Resume – the first thing I noticed about Peter’s resume was that he focused on the his day to day activities. Entering tickets, maintaining a software repository. He also learnt from a lot of “Job sites” to make his resume stand out by using big words and fancy ways to talk about his daily tasks. What was missing, was using these activities to sell himself and his skills. I told him to focus more on using something like “software repository” and use it in a way to demonstrate his ability to manage and organize the companies assets in a systematic way. That shows someone that uploads files to a NAS and make it more about his ability to organize, the latter showing much more value.
Next, I walked him through the different roles, what they mean, and what skills are required. I also explained the different seniority levels and then told him what he needs to do continuously afterwards.
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