I’ve been looking at professional IT careers and i’ve noticed a trend. Employers wants to hire those with 3 years experience but nobody wants to put in the resources and efforts to train up the inexperienced.
I’ve gone to an interview where I was told ‘this is not an academy, if you want training, you should go back to a training academy’. But then I thought to myself, who’s responsible for the training? Schools didn’t teach company specific technical skills and companies doesn’t apply what is being taught in school.
This begs the following questions:
How are companies hiring experienced personnels when nobody is willing to train them? This is not sustainable, isn’t it?
Will the IT industry, or specific departments, lose their roles in the next 10, 20, 30 years because of the lack of experienced professionals?
His qualifications:
Higher Diploma in Ethical Hacking. Working towards OSCP. Obtained CCNA 2 years ago, don’t intend to re-certify it.
Currently looking for Penetration testing roles but by the next 3 weeks or so, if I can’t get a solid interview, I will have to look for other roles and potentially give up on the OSCP exam even though I’m really passionate about the role
Here are what netizens think:
- Couldn’t you find remote jobs first? Participate in CTFs? Contribute to open source projects?
- If don’t have internship experience or relevant project experiences, you should look for entry level jobs, i.e jobs that explicitly state they welcome fresh grads or they don’t state YOE. If they state 3YOE, then its not an entry level job.
- Don’t know your background, but most companies expect uni graduate students to have internship and project experience. They expect that you have used some of the tech stack that they use, and that you are able to learn on the job.
- Schools don’t teach company specific stuff but with the right fundamentals, you can jump straight into any company product pretty quickly. OSI model doesn’t change regardless of product and environment. PKI doesn’t change regardless of product.