On 03/03/2010, Dennis Kioko <
dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 March 2010 15:16, Kennedy Kairaria <
kenkairaria@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Now I get why my boss keeps on riding on my ass"
>
> This sounds technically incorrect
>
>> how I should improve on my communication skills. Apparently Gideon, take
>> these guys advice.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kago Kagichiri <
thekenyanprince@gmail.com>> > wrote:
>>
>>> @John Doe, as much as your advice is meaningful, I don't think one would
>>> need to speak good English and express themselves perfectly to touch your
>>> servers. Most of us I.T. people have problems expressing ourselves to
>>> Lawyer/Banker standards. That doesn't mean we're not good at what we do.
>>> I
>>> worked in a cyber cafe when I was 13, I didn't know what a router and a
>>> LAN
>>> was, but I knew that all IPs should point to the server and that signing
>>> out
>>> "makes people not able to see your info"... And Gideon is trained on the
>>> mumbo-jumbo explaining all the tech so I think that attitude is what
>>> keeps
>>> the people with 6 years experience in the field and locks out all the
>>> young
>>> bloods.
>>>
>>> Gideon, I would suggest that you seek training first and foremost. Let
>>> the
>>> money come later. Get all your skill sets on some real stuff, real comps,
>>> real users, mess up a few times. But as soon as you've got your act
>>> together, and you should if you were meant for IT, then you can go out
>>> and
>>> make demands for your services as you were advised.
>>>
>>> KK.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Philip Musyoki
>>> <
pmusyoki@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Gideon,
>>>>
>>>> You know lately the IT business has become a commodity business, and for
>>>> you to have any meaningful impact, you need to hone you people skills
>>>> which
>>>> are now becoming more important than technical skills.
>>>>
>>>> You need to show an employer why the should have you in the their IT
>>>> department rather than some soulless technician working in some
>>>> outsourcing
>>>> company somewhere maybe even in India or Kazakhstan or even Timbuktu.
>>>> The
>>>> reason why companies and employers have IT departments is for these kind
>>>> of
>>>> skill, not the technical ones, but I am not saying technical skills are
>>>> invalid but they are just part of the package. And they are willing to
>>>> pay a
>>>> premium for them. Otherwise they could just Google or Bing.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
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