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This post refers to this article https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/want-a-secure-high-paying-job-don-t-expect-university-will-get-you-there-20250605-p5m585.html

If you’re under 30 with a degree this post probably relates to you. The big debate today whether getting a university degree is worth obtaining. In this age of information accessibility and content makes it easier than ever to know a topic, skill or knowledge.

What I can share with you is my Bachelor IT degree hasn’t not played any part in where I’am at, with my career now. I demonstrated good work qualities by making mistakes, being proactive in my learning, researching interesting and related IT topics, attending meaningful meetings with IT users that are better than me (particularly in the devops / cloud space) and more importantly listened more than spoke.
These qualities were not taught to me during university.

Qualifications are pieces of paper, nothing more. That is the reality. Employers look for qualities and skills from uni grads or new comers into IT yet how do uni grads or new comers build these skills? I was in this position once and to this day I’m still in this position. I’m currently doing an Engineering role for a mid- large firm in Australia. I have aspirations to become a solution architect to further expand my IT career.
I have enrolled and purchased courses from Udemy (not endorsed by this creator, just using this course for my personal learning (I’m currently doing the Udemy course “How To Become An Outstanding Solution Architect” by Mark Farragher)).

The reality is, future IT aspirants will need to think outside the box to get a step into the IT industry. Consider the following to

• Subscribe to this website, to get the latest input, trends, suggestions, ideas and examples on the IT industry 🙂
  • Also subscribe or bookmark useful links and IT creators
  • I use the following to keep up to date with IT trends (again not endorsed by these resources)
    • https://devopscube.com
    • https://thenewstack.io/devops/
    • https://www.techworld-with-nana.com/devops-bootcamp
      • I subscribe to this IT user’s YT channel
• Research topics and concepts on Youtube to grasp visually
  • Make sure you document your learnings
• Enrol in some other online courses that are related to IT
  • Don’t focus soo much on finishing the course, pick out the topics that fulfill the roles and tasks you want to be performing
  • If the course doesn’t meet what you need move on. Find another course
• Research tools, programs and systems your industry uses
  • See on YouTube if there is an example on how users utilise these tools
• Be sure to write on your resume 2/3 to 1 page the skills you’ve learned when doing this research and how you can apply
  • E.g. I watched a YT video regarding Service Now. I learned that I can store incidents, log details and detail the issues and resolutions on these incidents. By doing these steps I can articulate to an audience the issue of the system.

Summary:

• You want to get somewhere with your career, what are the bare bones basic you can fulfill first
  • E.g. start in an jnr admin role or entry level operations role, before making the step up into your desired role with the responsibilities and tasks you want to do
  • Can you begin researching tools, systems your industry uses and then create some knowledge around you’ve researched
  • Can you find online courses (yes material and resources away from your previous/current form of formal education)