IT careers with no competition

Rumblr33

The reason I ask this question, I feel a lot of the students getting jobs without experience often attend well known colleges or universities. Not always the case bit more often then not.

As to the original question, a lot of jobs are built on relationships. There will always be competition but if you know someone that knows someone, you have a leg up. Sometimes this comes at the detriment of the more qualified person.

TheFORCE

Rumblr33 wrote: »

The reason I ask this question, I feel a lot of the students getting jobs without experience often attend well known colleges or universities. Not always the case bit more often then not.

As to the original question, a lot of jobs are built on relationships. There will always be competition but if you know someone that knows someone, you have a leg up. Sometimes this comes at the detriment of the more qualified person.

Companies don't always look for those that qualify, each company has different standards and sometimes the culture plays a role too. If they think you will fit faster in their culture they might hire you rather than someone more qualified. Theres to many variables to just focus on one.

$bvb379

Blade3D wrote: »

Where can I get this job? I have a degree in computer science emphasis information assurance and am definitely interested in a career in this. I currently do design/engineering though I have been involved in some cyber-security assessments. I had a hard time finding a job out of college, so I consider all these friends of yours lucky.

I live in Atlanta and yes, I say lucky as well. They just did internships at the right companies I guess.

$bvb379

Rumblr33 wrote: »

The reason I ask this question, I feel a lot of the students getting jobs without experience often attend well known colleges or universities. Not always the case bit more often then not.

As to the original question, a lot of jobs are built on relationships. There will always be competition but if you know someone that knows someone, you have a leg up. Sometimes this comes at the detriment of the more qualified person.

Yes, good colleges and internships. Again, my biggest regret is not going for a STEM degree and not doing internships, although I had no idea what I wanted to do/what I was interested in until I was in my senior year of college. All of my friends had a pretty good idea when they started, go the relevant degree, did an internship or two and are doing very well for their age.

DoubleNNs

I think there's a few options you can take at the moment to minimize competition:

• Get a clearance and move to an area where a large amount of jobs require it (DC/MD/VA area as an example)
• DevOps - regardless of what you personally define the term as, many job postings want decent Server/Network operations skills with an automation and scripting. The combination of skills needed, huge hype, and the lack of supply makes it easier to land a job in that space once you gain enough knowledge to pass the technical interviews.
• Big Data - another area with big hype, rare combination of skills needed, and low supply to demand ratio.
• DB Admin - Seems like there's a lot of DBAs out there, but still lower supply vs demand. This is especially exacerbated by the advent of NoSQL technology and desire for real-time data ingestion/analytics, in addition the fact that the positions ride on the coat tails of the current BigData hype.

The positions all demand diverse and difficult to master skillsets. However, the low supply to demand make them easier to enter at the moment, especially if you have "passion" and the will to not be mediocre.

Just my opinion on the current trajectory of the field. Feel free to dispute or add commentary.