Do you desire to become an expert in your field,
maybe desire to be an expert cloud architect or an expert Solution Architect,
or an expert cloud engineer or an expert in general? If so, this video is for you.
Hi, my name is Michael Gibbs, and I am the founder and CEO of go cloud careers. And we're
an organization that's dedicated towards building the most high performance cloud computing careers.
Personally, I've been working in tech now for over 25 years, and I've been helping helping
others get their first tech job or get promoted in tech for more than two decades. And I want to
help you accelerate your technology career. Now one of the best ways to truly accelerate your
technology career is to become an expert in your field. So we're going to talk about four things
that you can actually do to become an expert on your field. The first thing that we're going to
talk about is finding your niche, let's face it, you cannot become an expert on everything.
And if you try to do so what's going to happen is you'll effectively be a hobbyist and everything
and won't know anything about anything. Let's talk about what it takes to become an expert. I
come from a medical background. So let's kind of describe what expertise is. And then we'll talk
about expertise in tech, someone can go to four years of college, four years of medical school,
do a three year residency and a three to five year internship to work on the heart as a cardiologist
now. It could be upwards of 17 years for entry level practice. And you would think in 17 years
of school, you can master everything. No, the heart is the size of my human fist. And if I
told you there's more than 10 Different kinds of cardiologists that all go to school for 17 years,
just to work on the heart, we're talking about 170 years of training, just to work on the entire
heart. Now compare this to what we see in tech, the 10x AWS Certified person, they don't even know
what they don't know. In fact, when I see a 10x, AWS Certified person or a 10x, certified anybody,
I won't even waste my time on an interview, because I know they can possibly know anything
about anything because their focus is so detailed. So first thing you do is find
your niche. And what's your business be? It should be something that you really love? I
spent about five years working on nothing other than an Internet routing protocol called BGP.
And I loved every minute of it, what did I do? I read BGP books, I read BGP RFCs, I set up labs,
I practiced it practice to practice it, until I mastered it. During this time, I did nothing other
than BGP. Sure, there was all these exciting, cool technologies out there. And I wanted to
play with them all. But I knew the second I lost my focus, I wouldn't be the best at everything.
And I wanted to be the best and I failed. So find your niche. That's incredibly important in terms
of accelerating your career. And whether it's a cloud architect career, the solution architect,
career and Enterprise Architect career, a medical career, a law career, or an accounting career,
it doesn't matter, or even a cloud engineering career, master your skills,
find your niche. Now, when you become an expert in your field, or a thought leader in your field,
you have to be known for it. So the next thing that you should do is teach a skill to others.
You heard me teach your expertise to others. Why? Well, in the process of teaching others,
it reinforces it in your head. But it's more than that, not only does it reinforce it in your head,
it shows others that you are the expert, and they've learned from you and I'll put you in
a position as a thought leader, the world I come from, which is medicine, we see it,
we do it, and we teach it to somebody else. And that teaching it to somebody else really optimizes
and maximize your skills, share information, create some content, share some documents,
presentations, present at conferences, present in high profile audiences, just
share your skills and be out there and be seen for there everywhere presented executive briefings,
presented big industry conferences presented anywhere you can have new employers just practice
presenting, sharing your information, heck, post on LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, I don't care. Share
your expertise with the world that makes sure the world knows that you're there. The last phase
is to prove your capabilities don't talk about I like to use the term the 10x AWS Certified person
because they have such little focus that they don't know anything about anything, and I can't
hire them. And it's sad because they work so hard to actually damage the brand and damage the career
in the end. Working so hard to not have a career and not have a specialty basically be a jack of
all trades and a master I'm not what they like to do is I'm an expert. I'm certified. I'm an expert,
I'm certified. I'm an expert, I'm certified. Don't tell people you're an expert. Show them
you're an expert proved in their expert, present them to them in a way that they know without a
question about a doubt. You are the expert. When you deliver products or work deliver with such
precision and expertise, the world knows you're the leader. And then that's how you become an
expert in your field. So if you want that best cloud architect job, the best solution architect
job that best Enterprise Architect job or that best cloud engineer job, I want you to understand
this, you can't be an expert on everybody else's job. If you try you will fail. But if you become
an expert on your job, I promise you the biggest success in your future so become an X work in
your field, become a thought leader watch your career accelerator like a rocket. If you'd like
to become a cloud architect, we have a cloud architect career development program that will
teach you everything you know, to get your first cloud architect job, and will even help you pick
specialties such as networking or security. Because we want you to be an expert in your
field by the time you finish your program. And if you desire to be a cloud engineer,
guess what? We have a cut engineer career development program that will teach you everything
you need to know to be an expert cloud engineer. So master your career and that's somebody else's.
That's my advice for you today. This is Michael Gibbs. I'm the founder and CEO of go careers,
and I look forward to seeing you in another video coming very soon. Take care everyone.