New job...

I had a phone interview and an in-person with multiple managers...two weeks later..a job offer that's 60% more than my current salary

. My new role is a NOC position with a cable/ internet company. I received this job with only 6 months of IT experience + Network+ & CCENT. The hiring manager said I was only brought into the interview process because of my certifications (because I barely had any IT experience). It doesn't always happen this way but my certifications were the main reason of me landing the position. Now I can pay off my car within 6 months..YESSS lol

**They offered $7,000 more than I asked for**

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Everyone

Congrats! Quite the jump there.

matt333

Congrats!

cyberguypr

That's unacceptable! Demand you get paid what you asked for.

Congrats!

YuckTheFankees

cyberguypr wrote: »

That's unacceptable! Demand you get paid what you asked for. Congrats!

I was literally shocked when she gave me the compensation package. I fax in my offer sheet tomorrow!

Essendon

Congrats for the new job and the pay hike!!

I remember something similar happening to one of our other members, MRock4, he said he asked for 70K or something, and they offered him 95K!!

higherho

Congrats! I hope it goes well for you!!

Networking guys hit me right here

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coty24

Congrats bro, I'm happy for you; it's always a good feeling when you get the job you want. More pay than you asked for doesn't hurt either

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Congrats!

Thanks everyone! What I also like about this company is that I can grow with them..they have multiple Linux jobs, obviously more networking jobs and even WiFi jobs.

kriscamaro68

Congrats on the new job that is awesome. Start getting in good with the security team and maybe in 6 months you can land a position there.

Asif Dasl

Congrats! It's always good to hear these type of posts...

rsutton

Time for a celebration! Congrats!

NetworkingStudent

YuckTheFankees wrote: »

I had a phone interview and an in-person with multiple managers...two weeks later..a job offer that's 60% more than my current salary . My new role is a NOC position with a cable/ internet company. I received this job with only 6 months of IT experience + Network+ & CCENT. The hiring manager said I was only brought into the interview process because of my certifications (because I barely had any IT experience). It doesn't always happen this way but my certifications were the main reason of me landing the position. Now I can pay off my car within 6 months..YESSS lol

**They offered $7,000 more than I asked for**

Congrats!! Just curious....what certs do you have?

YuckTheFankees

NetworkingStudent wrote: »

Congrats!! Just curious....what certs do you have?

Network+ and CCENT

YuckTheFankees

kriscamaro68 wrote: »

Congrats on the new job that is awesome. Start getting in good with the security team and maybe in 6 months you can land a position there.

That's an awesome idea

Dakinggamer87

Congrats on new job!!

kurosaki00

Thats great man! Gratz

whatthehell

Big congratz! If you don't mind me asking, how did they find you? Linkedin?

YuckTheFankees

I applied for the position and I used Dice, Indeed, and SimplyHired

N2IT

Awesome post. This is what it's all about. Nice work!

lordy

Congratulations!

It's rare but sometimes you find companies that pay good money for experience and certifications. It happened to me once when I was offered almost 20% more than I asked for. It was a great company because they really knew the value of their employees.

YuckTheFankees

lordy wrote: »

Congratulations!

It's rare but sometimes you find companies that pay good money for experience and certifications. It happened to me once when I was offered almost 20% more than I asked for. It was a great company because they really knew the value of their employees.

Exactly! Their 1st impressions has been a great one...it makes me want to stay with them for a long time.

joneno

Congratulations man. Seems you'd be going be the networking route, rather than your preferred linux job.
Anyways, congratulations again. Hard work pays.

YuckTheFankees

joneno wrote: »

Congratulations man. Seems you'd be going be the networking route, rather than your preferred linux job.
Anyways, congratulations again. Hard work pays.

You are correct. They money was hard to turn down but the good thing is that they have a good amount of Linux jobs. I'm putting off my Red Hat studies for now but I might pick up again when it gets closer to my 1 year mark sp I can actually apply for internal jobs.

LinuxRacr

Congrats!!

joneno

YuckTheFankees wrote: »

You are correct. They money was hard to turn down but the good thing is that they have a good amount of Linux jobs. I'm putting off my Red Hat studies for now but I might pick up again when it gets closer to my 1 year mark sp I can actually apply for internal jobs.

Life throws us a curve at different point in time. As humans, we have to react/make life changing decisions. I wanted to go the linux route too, but I got a M$/desktop job(with my MCSA) that I couldn't refuse, cool benefits, and at the end of the month I still have some money left in my savings account. I had to drop the michael Jang RHCSA book and try to upgrade to MCITP:EA. I just want to pay my bills man, I'm one of those I.T prostitutes, for lack of a better word.

yuddhidhtir

congratzz!

jabney

Congrats on the job! I love to hear wonderful news like this!