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by croydon8

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Hi to all TechTechRepublic members and fellow professionals. I live in the London, UK. I have been looking for a job since I completed a course called Information Technology System Support for Professionals in June 2002- The course covered all sortsof subjects to do with supporting the IT issues. It covered PC Hardware troubleshooting, Network management, Internetworking, Client/ Server networking, Peer to Peer networking, Customer Support, Problem solving etc.

But it have been hard to finda job in London, all the methods I have used seems to be not working. So what I am asking you fellow professionals is that if you can give me any advice on how to find and get a job. And also if you are based in the UK or know of a company that is based in the UK and is looking for IT Support person Please let me know. I thank you and wish you a happy Christmas.

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by sgt_shultz

while you are unemployed, why not work on some certifications? A+ and Network+ are easy ones and will give you confidence. then try MCP or MCSA...get yourself a cisco cert and you should be quite a bit more employable...meanwhile, what about keepingyour hand in helping a non-profit...church, girl guides...friends and family and their friends. just keep working somehow free or paid. what methods have you been using anyhow? Happy Holidays to you and yours, good luck and keep your chin up.

by john_wills

If you are willing to leave Yookeigh, register at http://www.worldwideworker.com/. It often shows me jobs which would be interesting were I not trying to gather moss in SF. And it can do no harm to register. For Yookeigh, http://www.peoplebank.com/pbank/owa/pbk06w00.main?p_nSBId=1000 is a good enough place to register. And don't forget the Job Centre and its fare-to-interview scheme. Being relatively unexperienced, you have some chance of getting jobs outside the profession, and the money and experience might both be valuable: you can always leave when an IT job turns up. McDonalds will train you in management techniques; you may not be very keen on managing a hamburgery, but think of it as education. And a low wage is better than no wage.

by blaine moore

I just blanketed the world with my resumes, and followed up on as many of them as I could. Not an easy task. I wound up with a great job however, so even if you have to do idiot work for a while always set aside time to be actively searching for employment. It took me 8 months and I estimate between 500-600 resumes.

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