#ITjob #FirstJob #ImposterSyndrome
Hey everyone! 👋 So, I recently landed my first IT job after graduating last year with a degree in IT. The thing is, I have zero professional experience in the field and I feel like I’m in way over my head. I’m studying for my Sec+ certification and memorizing a ton of information, but I have no clue how to actually apply it in a real-world setting.
I can’t shake this feeling of being a fraud and wondering if I’m the only one who feels this way. Has anyone else experienced this when starting their first IT job?
Possible Solutions:
– Reach out to your colleagues or mentor for guidance and support 🤝
– Don’t be afraid to ask questions and seek clarification when needed 🧐
– Remember that it’s okay to not know everything right away – learning is a journey! 🌟
Let’s discuss and share our experiences – I’m sure we can all learn from each other! 💬 #Support #ITcommunity
Impostor syndrome is a real thing
None of us know anything yet we all figure it out. The information is all out there
Everyone feels that way when they’re first starting out, unless they have a hyper inflated ego, which are exactly the people you don’t want to hire.
I wouldn’t waste time on sec+, the field is over saturated with a bunch of college grads who don’t know what they’re doing being hired by incompetent leadership who don’t understand why experience is the most important part of security.
If you’re not going into programing, focus on infrastructure at first. You need to learn how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together before you can properly assemble the picture. Networking, AD, VMWare/Cloud are all good places to get you a decent paycheck and exposure into enough areas where you can decide which direction you want to head into. Just targeting those areas will give you some exposure to security, database engineering, backbone architecture, storage/backups, ect.
The most valuable information I can provide you with though, is to go into the office (if possible), talk to people in the break room / at their desks, ect, aka social networking. Also, pay attention in all your meetings, even if they don’t apply to you, and once you have some knowledge, contribute or ask smart questions once you’re able to. The more people that know who you are, the more opportunities to advance open up for you.
Actually you should feel lucky that you landed a job. What exactly did you graduated from? CompSc? And what IT job did you land? If it’s Help Desk or any type of desktop support, just Google it. As long as you have a problem solver mentality and supportive co workers who can help, the first month will be hard and stressful but just hang in there. Good Luck!
I knew basically nothing about IT infrastructure when I graduated. I got a CS degree so most of my education was programming and math. I’ve learned just about everything on the job. You will be fine.
Can you share how did you interview go? Did they ask any technical questions or PBQs?
Take a good minute to research Corporate culture. People will teach you all the tech stuff and how it applies to your position. Office dynamics was the hardest for me to grasp being a geek.