I’m applying for sysadmin type jobs and feel a lack of degree is holding me back. Should I simply lie? Can’t see most employers actually checking on a degree I would have earned 30+ years ago.
Fuck that- I had to run away from home at 16- never graduated high school, never graduated college.
I’m a senior software engineer now. Just make sure you can do the work, make sure you can teach yourself anything. Fight and advocate for yourself, not all of us were dealt good cards in life.
No. Put real world examples of your work. Homelab shit, word some shit you did for friends or family as work experience. Anything that isn’t just an outright lie.
Just to help make you feel a bit better about your job hunt, I finally got a position with AWS after some 6 years of actively sending out applications and resumes to anyone and everyone. In the end what got me the job (I think) is real experience and good understanding of the basics needed for my position. No real experience in my new role but a lot of related experiences in previous. Also a lot of practice with Amazon’s STAR method of story telling, it really helps lay down the information that interviewers want to get out of you, even if they aren’t Amazon.
It also doesn’t hurt to find and get certifications! There’s quite a few out there and can be gotten fairly easily and cheaply (and some not so cheaply lol)
If you’re gonna try a stunt like that, you might say that you graduated from ITT Tech, which closed in 2016…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute
Good luck on your job search 🤞
Or if you’re looking to fluff experience, pick a company that closed down. Who they gonna call, the Ghostbusters?
4 of my previous employers have either gone bankrupt or represent a different agency and I feel like if someone looked over my resume right now they would automatically assume I was lying. Or cursed.
Def cursed lol.
Edit: even your instance is shutting down. You sure you arent?
Well at least I can charge people money to weaponize my curse. Any enemies you want me to stand around and curse?
Sure why not. Business lie by saying they need someone with 5 years experience in a junior role but will happily take someone without.
Make sure it’s from a university that no longer exists or went out of business. That way they can’t properly verify.
Go for it. In the world of IT, people networking, experience, and certs are more useful than a degree. Degrees might get you past the HR screening, but the others get you the job.
Certs and experience are more important for sysadmin type jobs anyway. Besides, if the company values a degree more than your experience, would you really want to work there?
If they check, they’re checking databases that would have that info despite being 30+ years old.
If they check, they’ll know.
depends if they will check or not, most wont check. they look at your experience that matters, the double edged sword is most employers are looking with ton of experience from the get-go, and are too lazy to train people.
