Any places that accept you with certifications?

[DerGillster]

Okay so I am in college and would like to get a job. I am majoring in computer science, yet ironically, I don't know any programming or networking at all. I have leaned a few stuff from my programming classes.

I would like to find a job that probably pays decent, like around $10 an hour. I was wondering if getting two certs in CompTIA A+ and N+ would enough to find some part time networking job.

I am not saying this job would replace me getting a bachelors, but I would like to find a part time job that payed a decent wage.

Anyone know who I should go to apply or what I can do with those two certs at 19?

 

[USAFRet]

No programming, no networking...just what ARE they teaching you?

In any case...for a job...what can you actually do? Show me something.

 

[DerGillster]

No programming, no networking...just what ARE they teaching you?

In any case...for a job...what can you actually do? Show me something.

Nothing really tech-related except a microsoft powerpoint certification. I was hoping these exams could maybe give some applicable skills and get me a decent job out there to work part time without having to lift heavy stuff. It's just not my preference to be lifting. I prefer to learn and then apply the knowledge.

 

[USAFRet]

You can make powerpoint slides.
How does that equate to you getting paid $10/hour?

A lot of middle school kids can do this.

Skills, son...skills. You need some.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

If all you're getting is Powerpoint training then one of two things is going on here:

a) You're not in a Computer Science program. When I earned my BSCS the program was first and foremost a software engineering course of instruction. Lots and lots of math (all the way up to Calculus), algorithms, principles of software engineering, and along the way lots of code writing (Pascal in my case).

b) Time to find another college. Your degree earned here will be useless.

As for certifications, the A+ and N+ only tell me one thing, that you're trainable and can take a multiple choice test. I'll take someone with 2 years experience and no certs over someone with no experience and a dozen certs everyday of the week. The days when the A+ was a serious certification are long past.

 

[Ralston18]

In full agreement with the previous posts.

Will ask: does your college have a career center with a staff to help you apply for and prepare for employment?

Based on your responses so far I am not optimistic about your answer or the career center if there is one....

But check into it and maybe there will be someone there who can and will actually be able to help.