Employment in Linux environment

[urgranny]

Hi

So, last year I decided to opt for a career change into the IT industry. After consulting a few guys already in the industry i decided to start my pursuit by doing some course in Linux.

What I have done so far:
1) Completed a certification course on Linux Esssentials
2) Completed a certification course on Linux Networking & security
3) Completed a certification course on Bash prog & advanced system administration
4) Wrote both my LPI1 (linux professional institute) exams.

Now, how do i go about looking for employment??? any help/suggestions/contacts would really be appreciated!
Oh, pls keep in mind that i have no fomal IT work experience. But I am willing to start right at the bottom.

 

[urgranny]

Can no1 offer me any help or suggestions???

Dosent anyone know of companies hiring/looking for junior Linux persons?

ok, besides the employment option.... any advice/suggestions on another course/certificate that i can complete to make me more employable?

 

[sjm]

Firstly, which area are you in?

 

[Tinuva]

Firstly, which area are you in?

+1

If you are in CT I know of a few companies, mostly ISPs or Web Hosting companies.

My biggest suggestions as to what you can learn?

- mail servers, specifically Postfix (popular), Exim (also popular), Qmail (older systems tend to use these)
- web servers, get a lot of apache down, manual config as well as check out how Plesk and Cpanel wrap around it
- networking, well every Linux job comes with a bit of networking, be it setting up a gateway with funny things like routing over multiple uplinks, be it adsl or wireless companies LOVE redundancy, also a bit of firewalling, I guess your linux security will come in handy here

There are some more proprietary stuff but that you can learn at the company you work for in my opinion.

Employment in Linux is easy, there aint that many people that are comfortable with it, but you need to get down to be comfortable on the Console, forget the GUI stuff from Ubuntu/OpenSUSE/MINT ect.

Personally, at our Company we run a mix of distros, Archlinux, Centos and Ubuntu/Debian so get comfortable with general Linux commands and worry about the distro specific stuff later. Some companies even use Suse SLES or Redhat ES so get used to those as well. Forget Gentoo asap

 

[urgranny]

Firstly, which area are you in?

I am in JHB. Willing to travel anywhere within JHB

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

You may have an issue not having any working experience, but as mentioned above - its best to start looking at web service based companies such as ISP's and Web Hosting companies as there is always linux involved there.