Any recommendations ?

Hi,
I will try to make it short, so people will not get bored to read it.
I am 38 years old. I have basic knowledge on IT field, but I didn't had the time/chance to be a specialist in only one domain. Now I am at the management level in the company that i work. So it happened also in other companies, stated from down and getting up pretty fast. IT is an old love for me, since i received my first PC, but live guided me to other domains. Now I would like to combine my managerial knowledge with my old love. My problem is that i don't have any idea, with what certifications to start, because everyone is trying to sell his products.
I don't mind if I have to start looking for a new job, less paid probably, but i need your kindly recommendation on the steps that I need to take, so in the end I will be able to mix IT and management.
Thank you all for your time and effort to answer me!!!

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twingo100

I personally would start with the Windows 10 MCSA which covers a lot of current areas in IT and after that maybe choose some more specialised like Windows Azure which has a growing demand

eenderro

Thank you for your recommendation.

beads

Unless your thinking of going into a LINUX heavy organization, yeah I would more than agree pursuing the MCSE/MCSA 2016/Windows 10 or the modern equivalents would be the best practical route. Learn to troubleshoot complex problems and the hard skills and the rest is as they say... easy.

Good luck!

- b/eads

GirlyGirl

eenderro wrote: »

Hi,
I will try to make it short, so people will not get bored to read it.
I am 38 years old. I have basic knowledge on IT field, but I didn't had the time/chance to be a specialist in only one domain. Now I am at the management level in the company that i work. So it happened also in other companies, stated from down and getting up pretty fast. IT is an old love for me, since i received my first PC, but live guided me to other domains. Now I would like to combine my managerial knowledge with my old love. My problem is that i don't have any idea, with what certifications to start, because everyone is trying to sell his products.
I don't mind if I have to start looking for a new job, less paid probably, but i need your kindly recommendation on the steps that I need to take, so in the end I will be able to mix IT and management.
Thank you all for your time and effort to answer me!!!

Personally, I must ask one question. What level of management? I feel that the level of management could more cater my answer (not like you are losing any sleep over my answer or anything).

I feel that at a certain level of management you are 100% not hands on. You will never know if a user can't log into email. You will never have to map a shared drive. You will never have to map a printer. You will never have to troubleshoot anything.

A certain levels of management an OS cert would not do you any good. You just call the Lead in X Department and say it doesn't work, and by the time you are off the phone someone is knocking on your door saying Sir. I was at a place where unless it was something significant like an outage or an incident of some sort, you never heard from management. You just say hello and good bye in the hallways and in the elevator. So, I said that to say it depends on what level of management.

I had 10 seconds to spare of my life:

Prime Example, Information Security Program Manager for Apple:
http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=7c07b6bf041aa600&from=tp-serp&tk=1c4kp3oet0m6u270

They don't care about certifications at a certain level of management. They don't care what you can troubleshoot on a computer. They don't care if you can print to the color printer down the hall. You don't even need IT skills. (-Read that 40 times.So, my answer depends.

eenderro

Thank you!

EANx

I agree with the above that you have to consider the level of management but you also have to consider the size and scope of the organization. For instance, a VP of IT for a 5,000 user company would probably be junior to a Director of IT Operations at a 75,000 user company when you look at the scope of their responsibilities and that neither is likely to be looking at getting an OS cert. If either goes after a cert, it's probably going to be business (CISSP/PMP) or IT infrastructure/architecture related. If the CIO puts you in charge of building the new datacenter, understanding networking or virtualization are far more valuable than being able to map a printer.