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Google Starts Certificate Program To Fill Empty IT Jobs (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: There are 150,000 open IT jobs in the U.S., and Google wants to make it easier to fill them. Today the company is announcing a certificate program on the Coursera platform to help give people with no prior IT experience the basic skills they need to get an entry-level IT support job in 8 to 12 months. Why it matters: Entry-level IT jobs are are typically higher-paying than similar roles in other fields. But they're harder to fill because, while IT support roles don't require a college degree, they do require prior experience. The median annual wage for a computer network support specialist was $62,670 in May 2016 The median annual wage for a computer user support specialist was $52,160 in May 2016. The impetus: Natalie Van Kleef Conley, head recruiter of Google's tech support program, was having trouble finding IT support specialists so she helped spearhead the certificate program. It's also part of Google's initiative to help Americans get skills needed to get a new job in a changing economy, the company told us.
They didn't say "entry-level" when reporting wages. Those are median wages for "computer network support specialist" and "computer user support specialist". So not "my first job on User Support" wages.
At one time, companies would actually do on-the-job training to fill these kinds of positions. The employee was grateful for the opportunity and would stick with the company. The company would realize the investment they had made in the employee and keep them around. After decades of down-sizing, out-sourcing and job-hopping; I guess there's not enough trust on either side for that to work now.
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I wish the article went into a quick view of the details. For anyone that doesn't want to look into it:
* Expectation is that you are giving 8-10 hours a week for 8 months to achieve the certification
* This is a subscription based service at $49/month
* You can apply for financial aid for the courses you are taking to relieve the cost burden
* Once you achieve the certification, then you will receive job seeking aid from Google/Coursera
There are thousands of IT jobs where I live, according to every job board. Of course 99% of those jobs are fake H1B visa scam postings, and the remaining 1% are earmarked for internal promotion purposes only. Perhaps you should wake up to the real world where there isn't any place with IT jobs.
Well, there are a couple of verifiable facts. Google does have some kind of certification program of an online nature. Axios.com is hosting a story about IT Jobs and Google. And Kim Hart got the Bi-Line for the story. It must be its first day on the job, because there is no reference to facts. So this article is Bull Shit.
Yes, we can return to 2001 where any warm body can an A+ or Network+ or whatever after a week in "boot camp" and than we will know they are capable ready to help run the business with little oversight....
Oh wait that failed back than, just it and past few years of code academy nonsense is going to fail now.
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Don't look in the usual places e.g. SV, SF
Have you looked in the basement?
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This is on par for the course with electricians and plumbers. The problem is in the 90-00s "VocTech" became a dirty word and *everyone* had to go to college.
This left a massive gap of people to fill that portion of industry which has been backfilled by H1Bs.
That is $50,00 a year median.
If you can write Microsoft SQL, Oracle SQL, AutoIT, Visual Basic, Batch, Powershell and Bash scripts, create, deploy, and troubleshoot GPOs, maintain the antivirus solution and detect and report false negatives, deploy and maintain virtualization infrastructure, manage DNS, troubleshoot email issues, and troubleshoot phone wriring, that nets you an extra $10k.
I quickly learned that any company I'd interview with that would ask "But do you have your A+ certification?" after being filled in on my formal college education and vast work experience wasn't worth working for.
"A+ = short bus". It's the Dane Cook of certifications.
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$50000? I am only getting $32000
Maybe yoy need a negotiation course
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Depends on where - In Seattle, I pay my help desk position over $70K. Network engineers start at $80+.
Of course you can't touch a house for under $600K, so paying IT people $100K isn't all that much.
After Google's anti-skill-social-justice bullshit in their own company I'll be sure to assume anyone with a Google certification doesn't know shit about the job and toss the resume as soon as seeing it. Even if they do well initially, there is no benefit to letting Google get a serious foothold in the IT industry's HR, they'll at best pull a bait-and-switch when they realize they have enough sway to control the industry and get a bug up their collective asses thinking there are too many white males.
When the job board has jobs:
Most are made up by contract agencies so Kumar has a list of people he can call when he finds some 3 month contract in some bumfuck area of the US, paying $10 an hour, with no moving comp. Oh, it requires a CCIE or MCSE level person.
From there, you get the contract agencies advertising jobs in their own town, thinking people will move. No, if I live in Houston, I don't give a fucking rat's ass about a Plano job advertised as a local item.
Then, you get the bogus recruiters. The ones that want to find out where you work, so they can send your boss a note that you are looking to leave, and can the recruiter hire someone to replace you. Yes, I personally had that happen.
Then you have the places that will "interview" you with bogus job prospects, then start hard-selling you on their interview practice lessons for $1000 a week.
From there, you get the positions offered because a company has to offer them in public. In reality, they have someone in mind already selected, and you will just be wasting your time.
Now you are down at the actual prospects. The jobs that require a TS/SCI clearance. Well, unless you kept yours up after military service, you won't have one, and companies are not going to spend the time to clear you.
Then come the jobs that require a CISSP or top tier certs.
Then come, you get the positions with high turnover. Places where you get hired, and three months later, you are running for the door, or are shown the door. The DevOps job where the PM is a true narcissistic psychopath that demands stand-up meetings that run for hours, and then fires people because they are not getting any work done. Or the manager that wants another H-1B, so keeps asking people to do tasks with no budget, and when something breaks, they get tossed.
As for real jobs? Good luck. Those are found through friends and acquaintances.
Yep, Olsmeister is actually right, 25-30k is actually the norm, even in Denmark and Sweden which is considered the richest countries in the world. How do I know? Well...I'm a 40+ something IT Helpdesk worker, and yes, that's what we get in one of the worlds biggest companies.
Sorry if you had a blissful dream of riches, this is the real world. Anyone that says you get 50-70K for being an IT-Helpdesk coworker, is FULL OF BS - period!
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
I can't speak to all certifications, but the Cisco, AWS and RHEL ones are far from worthless.
There are also a lot of subject-specific (generally compliance related) certifications that are important for management roles and contracting.
$11/hr may work out to less than $15k/yr depending on how many hours you work. (In retail, it's almost never full-time.) Not everyone can work at Wal Mart, anyway - did you forget about the thousands of employees they laid off on the same day they announced the wage increase? The increase is nice for the people who are able to luck out with a Wal-Mart job - yes, luck out. The majority of people employed in retail do not work at Wal Mart, and the going rate for those jobs is still $8/hr where I live. And Wal-Mart is far from the only retailer cutting jobs like mad recently.
I knew a person that got hired and moved, and then found out that the contract he was to work on fell through when he got there. The truth is, often once you factor in the mortgage, commuting time and costs, and risks like these, there are very few jobs that actually provide enough of a margin to make it worthwhile to move.
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