Got a better IT job!

I worked in a low-level helpdesk job making $10 an hour and I just got a job offer with IBM/Ricoh at $16 an hour as a PC Tech fixing laptops and migrating Win XP to Win 7. It's supposed to end in March, but a lot of people were telling me they knew people that worked there that got contracts extended or offered full-time work. Anyone have any experience working at this company?

Regardless, I'm super stoked to put them on my resume. Having hands on tech experience as well helpdesk experience should hopefully help when I get my Bachelor's from WGU and get some certs.

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Essendon

Your on your way up! Congrats.

AwesomeGarrett

Congratulations! Keep up the hard work.

roch_greg

Congrats man. Nothing is better than having the feeling of moving up.

markulous

Funny thing is I wasn't even applying for anything and they found an old resume on Linkdin.

FloOz

Congrats and goodluck in your new position!

Dakinggamer87

Congrats

kohr-ah

markulous wrote: »

I worked in a low-level helpdesk job making $10 an hour and I just got a job offer with IBM/Ricoh at $16 an hour as a PC Tech fixing laptops and migrating Win XP to Win 7. It's supposed to end in March, but a lot of people were telling me they knew people that worked there that got contracts extended or offered full-time work. Anyone have any experience working at this company?

Regardless, I'm super stoked to put them on my resume. Having hands on tech experience as well helpdesk experience should hopefully help when I get my Bachelor's from WGU and get some certs.

I have worked with a few people who worked at IBM for quite a while.
As for Ricoh I know that name well but didn't work for them but they were a competitor at the company I was at. Good experience from both sides.

Congrats!

dehgrah

Congrats on your new job and YES! Stack up on some certs!!!

shyguyIT

Congrats on the new job!

10Linefigure

Congrats man, encouraging stuff! Well done!

coreyb80

Congrats...work hard and keep climbing up the ladder.

markulous

Thanks for all the good wishes!

Everyone I've talked to that has either worked there or known people that have worked there, has said that they always hire you as a temp and then typically hire you on full-time with a pretty significant pay raise. I'll keep my fingers crossed as that would be a huge boon to my career to get in there since they have several levels of help desk jobs, network techs, admins, etc. If not though, I should at least get some nice experience to put on my resume.

earonw49

Congratulations!

Chitownjedi

Good fortune down your path!