IT career paths - the best for beginners

if you are watching this video you're probably ready to get started into it so how can you get started what are the best drop rolls for beginners which also gives you enough opportunities to develop in the long run no matter if you're older and you want to make the transition into it or you're young and you just want to get started and get your first it certifications in this video i will give you a broad overview of the most common it career path for beginners i will tell you what skills are required which it certifications are important in these roles and also what opportunities they will give you later in your it career so if that sounds all amazing to you keep watching hi everybody my name is christian and welcome to the digital life the right place for you to start your it career achieve new skills and learn how to become a real i.t professional i always make great tutorials free training courses on youtube and i also do a lot of live streaming on youtube and twitch so if that sounds all amazing to you don't forget to subscribe to my channel in this video we want to talk about ik career paths that are best for beginners and i actually thought a lot how i should make this video should this be a video just for beginners or for people who want to make the transition into it and what different id career paths really give you enough opportunities to develop a successful id career and to specialize in a specific area no matter if you're already working in it and you want to make the transition to a more professional id career path and you want to develop a successful id career this is also right video for you but first we're going to talk about how to get started for everybody who is not already working 19. the hardest thing for people is to just get started and i actually know this very well because i was exactly in the same situation i really had no experience i had no degree i was very bad at school and i really struggled a lot to get started because i really didn't know where my strengths and weaknesses are i had no self-confidence i had no idea where i should start and i wish i knew some of the tricks i'm gonna share with you in this video now also some people may have reservations because they think they don't have enough experience or they don't believe they are talented enough to become i.t professionals but trust me don't worry because in i.t it's not so important where you come from i've seen so many people during my it career who ended up working very advanced i.t roles with a high salary but they actually didn't work or start in it so they made the transition at some point coming from a completely different job so everything is possible it's more important what experience and skills you can get during your it career and how can you develop your id career i think experience is the most valuable resource in it also don't be afraid to start at the bottom because that's probably the best way to learn something and trust me it will pay off at the end most people actually start at the bottom and start with an entry level id job like on help desk or desktop support and that's actually a perfect opportunity to get started in it even if you don't have any experience if you don't have certifications or degree because usually in those entry level i.t roads you don't need anything you don't need any experience you don't need any certifications trust me even if some job descriptions may want you to have something but that's just because companies hope they will get experienced people who work in an entry-level id role but that's just those companies are dreaming because most people just start with an entry level i.t job they don't know anything about it but they just get started they get the experience during their career i personally i also started in an entry level i.t job in an i.t support role so this is a perfect opportunity to just get a foot in the door to learn how to speak to customers how to work for customers how to troubleshoot basic issues and this is just the best way to learn something and get your first experience in the field while entry level it jobs are a perfect way to get started at some point in your it career you just want to move on because i know that feeling you're working in this entry-level i.t job and you just want to develop your it career because you're getting more experience you just want to take challenges and you just want to develop a successful id career get a better job and get a higher salary to me this happened also because this was the first time where i seriously started to think about my id career so in which direction i should go in which area i should specialize which i.t career path i should choose and this is also what we're going to discuss in this video and i know this is not so easy because the it is such a vast industry there's so many different job roles job descriptions i.t career paths certifications and for beginners it can be completely overwhelming and confusing and we will first start with the system in infrastructure path so this is a very common ik career path and usually it is very easy to make the transition from entry level to this path because you usually work with some front-end clients or front-end systems already in your desktop support and on the systems in infrastructure path you usually get to work with servers with systems with virtualization so you mainly need to configure and maintain those back-end infrastructures and this is also a very interesting path you usually will work as a systems admin and you can also develop your it career in this path and move on to advanced i.t roles such as systems engineer or systems architect so this is a very interesting it career path you usually will do a lot with windows servers because active directory is mainly the technology that all companies are using so this is very important also virtualization is very important in sometimes linux servers so you should definitely focus on microsoft certifications also linux certification can be valuable if you want to make the transition to a more advanced linux server admin or something like this but you could also make the transition to more sales and consultant roles later in your it career when you got a lot of experience but trust me before you take the chance to move on to a more sales role a pre-sales or sales engineer role you usually should have a good understanding of those different systems because if you go to a company and you want to sell something or make recommendations how this company should integrate specific services you should have a broad overview of the technologies and the systems and services those companies are using the next it career path is networking and this is absolutely my favorite id career path i also strongly recommend it for beginners because you can either make the transition from systems in infrastructure path so for example you are working in a junior system admin role and you want to specialize in networking you can just make the transition and apply for a job as a network admin role or something like this but you could also directly start in networking this is also sometimes possible but it probably is a bit harder because you usually will need to know some fundamentals about networking and this is also very important when you want to move on and want to make the transition to more advanced networking roles such as network engineer or network architect and usually you should get some important networking certifications i can just recommend you to get the compta network plus at the beginning so this is a non-vendor it certification that will get you a lot of the fundamentals you will need in this id career paths but also opens up the opportunity to work with different networking vendors because there are a lot but also the cisco certifications are extremely valuable even if the company you are working for doesn't have cisco devices and this is because those cisco certifications just like ccna or something like this will also teach you a lot of fundamentals in networking and this is also very respected in the it industry so a lot of companies are using cisco devices and if they don't they usually respect the value of those well established it certifications from cisco so this is also very important but you also can get some alternative certifications from juniper for example so there are a lot of opportunities in the network path and usually those advanced roles can also get you a very high salary if you specialize in some areas there are also a lot of opportunities to specialize even further for example you can become a wi-fi specialist or you could also combine the networking it career paths with other i.t career paths we're also going to talk about so the next one is a cloud technology or the cloud infrastructure path and this is very interesting because this is an ide career path that came up a few years ago so this is pretty new because a lot of companies are making this transition from on-premise hosting to the cloud and cloud is very popular these days so usually you don't start directly in this id career path because for cloud technologies you should have a good understanding of it infrastructure so you could also make the transition from systems in infrastructure to cloud engineer or something like this and you also need to know a lot of networking because the cloud also needs to be connected to a network you usually work a lot with vpns and virtual networks with pod forwarding firewalls and this stuff so this is also very important and it is very common to make the transition from the systems infrastructure or the networking id career path towards a cloud specialized i.t role just like cloud admin and later you can also specialize even further you can get advanced jobs in this id career path like cloud engineer or cloud architect so this is also very important there's also one special role you can also get in this i.t career path this is the devops role and this is a very unique role because it is a hybrid between a developer and an operations manager and this is also very common in the cloud path because a lot of cloud systems need to be automated and this usually is done by devops engineers who develop processors to deploy structures to deploy infrastructure to integrate this structure with different systems and api so this is probably a more advanced role but i just want to tell you that you have the opportunity and cloud is a very promising i.t career path because as i said a lot of companies are hiring those cloud specialists and i think this is a very promising i.t career path that will get more and more important in the future so if you want to work as a cloud engineer you usually should focus on two of the most popular cloud infrastructure companies so this is amazon aws and microsoft azure they also offer a lot of it certifications in different career paths with different levels so you just should pick one or even both of these companies and check out their it certifications and if you can get those certifications that will extremely help you to develop your itigaria in the cloud path and the last it career path i also want to talk about is cyber security so this is definitely one of the most interesting and exciting path i think and today everybody dreams of becoming a hacker or a pen tester so i think this is probably very common these days before you start in cyber security you should start in a different idea career path because usually cyber security specialists they will need a lot of knowledge in many different areas in it so usually you will make the transition from networking systems in infrastructure path or even cloud to cyber security and cyber security is also a very special id career path because you can combine this with almost all different id career paths so this is also very interesting so i also did that because i started with systems in infrastructure in a more entry-level it job and then i made the transition to a specialized network role and i combined the network path when i applied for a job in an i.t security company and why i started to work in the network security force so this is also very interesting because network security usually requires you to get a very good understanding of network technologies but also with cyber security and this is very very interesting so usually the cyber security path will get you very well paid jobs so they usually got a high salary and you got a lot of responsibility in these roles most people dream of becoming a pen tester or hacker but that's just one role so the cyber security path is also a very very vast path with many different job roles you can be a security admin you can be a security manager later so there are a lot of interesting job opportunities with high salary and this is very very important but as i said you usually should get some fundamentals and its certifications in other it career path before doing that although some people probably may start directly in cyber security but i think this is very hard it's not very easy if you want to move in cyber security you can get it certifications like ceh or like cissp but as i said especially the ci ssp is a more advanced it certification that will also require you some years of experience so if you want to get this it certification you also need to work for a few years in a cyber security company so as i said this probably is not the direct path for beginners but it is a very interesting path to move on later in your it career so these were the most common it career path that are best for beginners as i said cyber security probably is a bit special i also left out some other id career path as you probably have noticed we didn't talk about developers or the operation path so there are also different options and i think these are just the most common ones that usually beginners start with so in my opinion the systems in infrastructure and the networking path are definitely the best i.t career path that are easy for beginners to get started with so as i said if you are struggling to get directly into those paths don't focus on getting your id certifications before working in a job role start with an entry level it drop role then build your knowledge make your first experience try to get some valuable it certifications for these id career paths you want to focus on and then if you feel ready take the action and make the transition to one of these it career path also don't get crazy with these it certifications i know some people just want to get all its certifications but this is even completely impossible and it's also not necessary because an it certification doesn't guarantee you a job automatically so this is also a common mistake people think just because they have one certifications they will automatically get their job well that's not the case don't get me wrong i.t certifications are extremely valuable and they are extremely important but they don't guarantee you a job you still need to be the right person you still need to be a good fit for a specific job role so it's just much more important to develop your experience to develop your knowledge and on top of that you should also get one or two it certifications that are valuable and important in your id career path you want to develop in by the way if you are wondering how you can get those it certifications you should take a look at it pro tv it pro tv offers you over 5000 hours of video training courses practice exams test labs and much more so if you use a promo code the digital life or you just click on the link in the description below you will get 30 percent of all subscription plans of it pro tv so this is just amazing and this is a great opportunity to learn and study for iit certifications take those practice exams and recap these technologies in test labs if you enjoyed this video don't forget to hit the like button and please tell me in the comments what it career path are you working on what you like the most and which it certifications you're currently studying on so i would be very interested in this so please leave me a comment you can also come to my discord on my twitch livestream if you just have any questions or you just want to get in touch with people who share the same interests like you so before i go i need to thank mason and all my other supporters on patreon because without you the community this wouldn't be possible at all so thanks everybody for watching enjoy the rest of your day take care of yourself and i see you soon [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye

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Length: 16min 30sec (990 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 04 2020