Are you looking to change careers? Would you like
to switch your career into a technology career? If so, this video is for you.
Hi, my name is Michael Gibbs, and I'm the founder and CEO of Go Cloud careers. And we're
an organization that's truly dedicated towards building high performance cloud computing careers.
Personally, I've been working in technology for about 25 years, and I've been helping others get
their first tech job or get promoted in tech for more than two decades. And I want to help you
get cloud hardware cloud promoted. In today's video, we're going to talk about transitioning
into tech wear how to change careers. Now, this is something for which I'm a bit of an expert
on. The reason I'm an expert is quite frankly, 25 years ago, I left internal medicine for tech
make that transition to there were so many lessons learned along the way. But I spent more than two
decades helping people get their first tech job. And I've helped so many transition from their
past career to a technology career. And I want to help you learn how to transition into tech.
So when you want a great technical career, and you're coming from something else, there are a
few things that you need to do do these and you will have an easy time transitioning into tech,
we're gonna go over the right now, the first and foremost thing that you need to do is find a tech
career that you are passionate about, I mean it you have to love it, it must be something you
truly love, you must have a good reason that you want to transition into technology. In most cases,
saying I want a good tech salary is not enough, you will need a purpose. And you're going to
need to remind yourself constantly. That's our purposes. And here's the reason why. When you
go from career a to career big, there's a lot to learn. And that's okay, but sometimes it's gonna
get tough. But if you're studying something you're truly passionate about, you will keep
going and you'll be highly successful. But if you don't enjoy it, when it gets challenging, you may
not have the stick with it, or the wherewithal to keep going. So find something you love. Besides,
experts get paid more than generalists. And if you find something more that you love, in most cases,
you will be much more successful and find yourself easier to master it and have a skill set that's
better than the rest over a short period of time because you love it. Now when it comes to
transitioning careers, I'm going to tell you right now you can't learn everything. So what I want
you to do is focus your time, your effort on the most critical components of the job you desire.
This is not a time to learn nice to has desired skills is a chance to get the required skills,
the most critical skills for your job. This is where you master the fundamentals, you become
as close as possible to an expert at the core job functions. Here's why it's near impossible
to find someone that's extremely competent in their job, even with lots of experience.
It's very feasible and common to find a jack of all trades that has basic hobbyist knowledge about
a lot of things. But what you need to be to get one of these great jobs is strong and competent.
So don't make this mistake, master your job. Learn your job, don't waste your time learning other
people's jobs. And here's the reason why. When it comes to hiring managers competency matters
more than experience, get the right training. And yes, there is a cost to proper training.
Many years ago, I went to Temple University, it was an undergraduate. And it was about $8,000 a
year and another $1,000 A year of books going back a long time. And in those days, I had to work 1300
hours just to pay for my tuition. Every day, when I went to school, there was this poster that said,
if you think education is expensive, wait to you try ignorance. Here's the thing,
the right training, the right education will get you to your goals, the wrong training will keep
you from getting to your goal, you need the right training. So find someone that is going to teach
you what you need to know but also how to build your career. And when we transition to tech, we're
so excited to get a bunch of certifications. But the thing is certifications don't get you hired,
they may get you an interview, but they don't get you hired, you will need the right training,
the right competency, and all of the intangibles that are gonna get you hired.
Now, when you get training, it can't just be tech. If it is it's not going to get you to your goal,
you must have a career planning component. And if your training does not have a career
planning component, get yourself a tech career coach, they can help you with the exact role,
the exact skills you need. The things that hiring managers need to hear at all what you need to do
to convince the hiring manager and they're keen to hire you. Next, leverage your life experience.
So many of these careers are so similar. You know, I used to work internal medicine.
And then I moved into architecture, network architecture, and then enterprise architecture and
then cloud architecture and guess what medicine and architecture are the same job. And many of you
have already seen the joke here. I'll explain it to you. Here's what I do in medicine patient comes
in they got a problem. I asked him some questions. It's called taking a history. I then do a physical
exam on them. I make a diagnosis and come up with a plan. Now what do I do as an architect? I
meet with a client and they have a problem. too, I asked some questions the same way, take a history,
and then bring in some cloud engineers to baseline their systems, their physical exam, and make
a diagnosis. And guess what? I make a plan. So doctor, interview a patient, architect, interview
a client, doctor, as some questions architect, as some questions, doctor do a physical exam
architecture with his physical exam by examining the systems or having somebody else, examine the
system, doctor, make a diagnosis, architect, make a diagnosis, Doctor make a plan, which is usually
the prescription architect make a plan called an architecture. See, so many of these jobs
are the same jobs. And it's not that you don't have experience, you have lots of experience,
you just translate your experience, from your last job, to your new job. Now, here the key you've got
to rebrand yourself, you're gonna have to tune your social media, your LinkedIn, your resume,
and everything that shows that you are laser focused on your new career. Now, what else should
you do? Just your attitude, I can tell you right now, here are the things that hiring managers
like. And only one of them is related to your job. Employers desire, people that are competent enough
to do the job, meaning the ability to do the job. But the rest they desire someone they can trust,
they desire, someone that knows that they know and knows what they don't know. They desire someone
that's energetic, enthusiastic and passionate about the work. They want someone that's going to
bring out the best in others, which is related to emotional intelligence. They want team players and
people that are willing to go above and beyond you show that to the hiring manager. In many cases,
they can't help but the heart. Lastly, when you have no experience and you're changing careers,
you've got to convince someone that you're ready for the job. So practice the interview, practice
the interview, practice the interview, practice the interview, you have to be better than the rest
when you're going on your first interview. Because if you want to get hired when you lack experience,
and you're changing careers, you got to look and feel and seem great. So master that interview,
so you can wow them with your interview. This is how you transition careers over very briefly.
Find something you love and master it, learn the criticality of your job. Get the right training,
make sure you build the perfect plan and you execute on that plan to be successful. Leverage
your life experience. rebrand yourself for the new desired position, adjust your attitude and master
the interview. And then you'd be cloud hired cloud provider and build a cloud computing career, your
dreams or any tech career of your dreams. With that, I'd like to tell you about some free things
we do to help you get your first cloud architect job or transition into tech three times per week
completely free on YouTube. I will answer any type of cloud computing questions you have coming
as questions about how to build your career and I will answer them completely free. Every Thursday.
We have a completely free how to get your first cloud job of it are people come from all over
the world in this webinar, I will tell them the following how to leverage their life experience.
So the hiring manager, they're ready. I'll go over the job, the Cloud Architect job in depth. I'll go
over the things that hiring managers desire. I'll teach you how to bypass HR and get your
hands directly resonating directly in the hands of the hiring manager. You can get hard and not
auto rejected by HR and your lack of experience, and it'll be a great time and you'll learn so much
and by the end of this you'll know exactly what you need to get hired. This is Michael Gibbs.
I'm the founder and CEO of bootcut careers and I look forward to seeing another video. Take care