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IT Support Specialist Traineeship

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  • 25-08-2013 8:51pm
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    leanonme
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭


    Hello, I dont know if I am posting this in the right place or not, but feel free to move it if not, or to advise me on where to post it.

    My boyfriend wants to take up a IT Support Specialist Traineeship with fas. Here is a link to the back round of it.

    http://www.fas.ie/en/Training/Traineeships/Traineeship+Courses/Information+Technology/IT+Support+Specialist.htm

    I am just wondering if people think it is worth his while doing it. Will he be able to get full time employment from it, or would he need to do further study. What kinda of jobs would he be applying for. Any help and advise would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to figure it out with out wrecking his head with too many questions.


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    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    leanonme wrote: »
    Hello, I dont know if I am posting this in the right place or not, but feel free to move it if not, or to advise me on where to post it.

    My boyfriend wants to take up a IT Support Specialist Traineeship with fas. Here is a link to the back round of it.

    http://www.fas.ie/en/Training/Traineeships/Traineeship+Courses/Information+Technology/IT+Support+Specialist.htm

    I am just wondering if people think it is worth his while doing it. Will he be able to get full time employment from it, or would he need to do further study. What kinda of jobs would he be applying for. Any help and advise would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to figure it out with out wrecking his head with too many questions.

    No he will not get full time employment with just a+ and n+.
    I did the course in 2010 - 2011.
    He will need further study and really it depends what he wants to do in IT.
    Saying that it is a great course..I did 16 weeks of work experience in an enterprise environment and it was great for learning about IT in the real world.


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    leanonme
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭leanonme


    demanufactured wrote: »
    No he will not get full time employment with just a+ and n+.
    I did the course in 2010 - 2011.
    He will need further study and really it depends what he wants to do in IT.
    Saying that it is a great course..I did 16 weeks of work experience in an enterprise environment and it was great for learning about IT in the real world.

    Thanks for your reply. Where did you study it. Have you managed to get any work out of it since you finished. Have you done futher studies in the area. I think he would be hoping to get full time employment somewhere after he finishes and then continue on with other partime courses.


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    demanufactured
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    I did it in athlone.
    No I havnt got employment in IT.
    A few that were on my ciurse did get employ ed but most didn't.
    I did some further studies after it but didnt see it out...doing it all from home was difficult.

    I wenr on to start my own business in a completely different field..


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    Krusader
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    After finishing the course he should easily get an internship through jobbridge and then he might be kept on. As regards study, he will be studying for the rest of his life as technology changes so quickly


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    leanonme
    Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭leanonme


    demanufactured wrote: »
    I did it in athlone.
    No I havnt got employment in IT.
    A few that were on my ciurse did get employ ed but most didn't.
    I did some further studies after it but didnt see it out...doing it all from home was difficult.

    I wenr on to start my own business in a completely different field..

    He is hoping to study it in Athlone too. God i'm not too sure now what he should do now. Its so difficult to know if he will manage to get a job when he finishes, and there is not much point in him doing it if he cant get work. Thanks very much for your responses.


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    Torqay
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    leanonme wrote: »
    Will he be able to get full time employment... without wrecking his head with too many questions.

    In IT Support? He'll be bombarded with many questions... day in, day out. :D


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    Cuddlesworth
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    FAS has spent the last couple of years pumping out basic IT support certs to so many people, it must be very crowded market at the moment.


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    micko45
    Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭micko45


    Hi

    Just my thoughts,

    Do the course, and go though one of the the agencies in Dublin to try and get a job in a help desk in one of the large IT companies, bigger the better.
    It also wont be full time but probably a fixed term contracts 6 months to a year and it will be badly paid but you have to start somewhere.

    I have been working in IT for a long time and seen so many people come into IT this way, we recruit our Junior Server Admin guys from help desk. Just show a lot of interest, determination and keep learning and he will climb up to where he wants to be.

    It takes time, but its most important to start working in some in way in the IT area.


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    BionicRasher
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    I would advise he do the course – you need to start somewhere
    I did a CCNA course (failed the exam by 0.5%), studied for CompTIA course at home (but never took the exam) and I was lucky enough to get an opening in a Helpdesk in a large company – 7 years later I am running IT projects and have done lots of different roles in IT like Desktop Support, Helpdesk, Helpdesk manager, Business analyst, validation, project management.

    If you are interested and show some get up and go then you will get far. Once you have some kind of qualification it can't hurt and will 9.99 times out of 10 be a help. Get your name in to agencies and you should be able to get some kind of junior role pretty soon. You need to start somewhere – I think there are loads of IT jobs out there and from what I hear on the grapevine there seems to be stuff going on all the time.
    Once you have some kind of foot in the door then you can do a multitude of courses by night or online etc and then further your learning in your area of interest.

    (I would also advise that you be very customer and business focused and be as helpful as possible as a lot of the time I see very technically gifted people slip by the wayside as they are not customer or business focused and therefore hard to approach and in the long run end up in some grubby basement office surrounded by motherboards and cables and get stuck in a rut there – maybe that's where some of them want to be but most people I believe could move up the ladder if they have the right personality – just my tuppence worth!)


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    j.s. pill II
    Registered Users Posts: 247 ✭✭j.s. pill II


    There's also a sub-forum here on boards that deals specifically with IT certification: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=882

    Definitely worth a look if he wants an idea of what he can expect to encounter in the long run


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