For the past five years, I have been working as a contractor at the Tier 1 help desk for the Social Security Administration here in Baltimore, Maryland.
As a result, I am starting to look for a new job.
Between phone calls on this past Thursday, October 13, 2022, I found myself over at the CompTIA website, looking for inspiration.
Suddenly, I rediscovered the list all of the various job positions held by people who have earned the A+ certification.
The list contains 16 different job titles.
Here is the list:
- IT Support Specialist
- Help Desk Technician
- Field Technician
- Tier 1 Support Specialist
- Desktop Support Specialist
- Associate Network Engineer
- Systems Support Technician
- Junior Systems Administrator
- Service Desk Analyst
- Technical Support Specialist
- Field Service Technician
- Data Support Technician
- Desktop Support Administrator
- End-user Computing Technician
- Help Desk Technician
- System Support Specialist
Looking over the list of job titles, I can see that my current job can be classified as an IT Support Specialist, Help Desk Technician, Tier 1 Support Specialist, Help Desk Technician, or Help Desk Technician.
In other words, there are varied roles that someone with the A+ certification could fill.
In addition, there are all of the various other requirements that may be unique to each job role, such as specialized experience and other certifications.
My next step is to take this list of job titles and start performing key word searches for each job title in LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and the rest.
I also need to update my resume. My job HAS NOT significantly changed in all of my five years, so that should be easy to do.
Lastly, after listing all of the various jobs that require the A+ certification, CompTIA then provided a short list of companies that hire people with the A+ certification.
Here is the list:
- Best Buy/Geek Squad
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Verizon
- Canon
- Dell
- General Dynamics
- HP
- Intel
- Nissan
- Ricoh
- Sharp
- Department of Defense
- Wells Fargo
I would say that the list is probably too general.
However, I am sure that the idea is that there are various companies and organizations that have hired personnel with the A+ certification.
An interesting exercise would be to go each of the companies listed and see what IT-related job openings that are available at each organization.
Another thing that I have been meaning to do for some time is to have my own business cards made. You never know just who you might meet.
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