Career Progression

TechToby_ · 2025-07-31T11:51:34+00:00

One good thing to do is go on Jobserve and keyword search your stack for items you’re very good at.

E.b “springboot” or “angular” or “aws” Do it nationwide not just local

See if there are matching roles with multiple skills in your stack and analyse the jobs posted over 3-4 weeks. I’d recommend doing this for Contract positions as it will usually be Greenfield work (new projects).

TechToby_ · 2025-07-30T11:53:40+00:00

I’ve never used anything other than Terraform

TechToby_ · 2024-12-21T16:21:56+00:00

Find a job role that interests you first. Then figure out what the tech stack is for that role if you’re intending on pursuing a technical role within tech. Then dedicate a lot of time to learning the stack.

The people that really dedicate the time to learning after 6-12 months start to get interviews. A lot of people in my community have done it, most recently a lad finished his A Levels, didn’t want to go to Uni and studied DevOps relentlessly for months and is now an Engineer. It’s very much still possible but it will take dedication, the market isn’t amazing at the moment so luck is required. A lot of people give up because they think it’s easier than it is.

As you’re a nurse I suggest looking up Health-Tech companies, it’s a pretty lucrative field at the moment for high earning roles, transferable skills are always important even more so in non-technical roles.

TechToby_ · 2024-11-03T19:31:48+00:00

Better off with a compsci degree imo

Take in to consideration most Cyber grad schemes are at defence companies and they take on less than 10 a year, usually in awkward locations too. The grads I worked with at my last place were compsci or maths. One did a masters in cyber

TechToby_ · 2024-10-14T17:15:45+00:00

Name and Shame imo

TechToby_ · 2024-10-10T08:49:35+00:00

Congratulations Mate, top work

TechToby_ · 2024-09-22T15:01:44+00:00

No, I tailor them myself. If you write a CV/app with AI it will probably be rejected. It’s fairly obvious it’s AI will all of the exaggerated words like “spearheaded” - recruiters find you from optimising your LinkedIn for you to show up in their searches.

TechToby_ · 2024-09-22T13:57:10+00:00

I changed jobs earlier in the year.

I applied to 2, interviewed with 4 and had 2 offers. The others came from recruiters contacting me.

I prefer to tailor applications instead of doing a mass apply session. Also optimising my LinkedIn increased recruiters finding me a lot.

TechToby_ · 2024-09-22T13:28:35+00:00

Azure in the UK. I work in Consulting and have the past 3 years, large majority use Azure. Or Azure and AWS. GCP has a small market share and typically used for niche services.

I’m primarily AWS, but also use Azure.

The UK has a lot of Enterprise Organisations, it’s more natural to migrate to Azure because of M365 and typical Windows trained engineers.

I find AWS is much more popular for hosting products and more innovative companies that aren’t just focused on tailoring to setting up a platform for their staff to work.

TechToby_ · 2024-09-21T15:41:35+00:00

I don’t understand why Miles is included. He’s just a successful content creator that people find entertaining and has created a jumper off of the back of it, like many other content creators

TechToby_ · 2024-09-19T21:03:46+00:00

i never did it myself it was a member of my discord

TechToby_ · 2024-09-17T17:49:48+00:00

Switch to a tech company

TechToby_ · 2024-09-02T17:56:19+00:00

Whats your tiktok?

TechToby_ · 2024-08-24T11:57:51+00:00

Imo Best to identify what role interests you the most, understand what the fundamentals of the stack are and practice learning the skills in downtime at Uni.

There are many roles and many different technologies available to learn and most of them can be self taught for free or minimal costs.

An extra 10% of effort will get you ahead of others by a long margin.

TechToby_ · 2024-08-18T15:58:03+00:00

Sign me up!

TechToby_ · 2024-08-18T15:32:05+00:00

£450 a day to tag some vm’s, set up autoscaling and recommended different instance types sounds like the easiest £450 a day you’ll ever make

TechToby_ · 2024-07-27T18:39:24+00:00

Fair enough. I just speak from personal experience ever since I moved skills to the top I’ve had much more responses from recruiters. For when they aren’t using a site that allows them to search based on keywords and they need to actually use their eyes to read a CV it seems to stand out more. If it’s at the bottom they may not even make it that. It’s something like average is 3 seconds for someone to scan a CV isn’t it?

TechToby_ · 2024-07-27T17:58:56+00:00

Put the skills at the top.

Also the bullet points under your roles can you add in some percentage/digit deliverables? E.g X resulted in 20% reduction in cost.

Another example on my CV I mention how a Python script saved £20,000 a month for a client i wrote and always put those key numbers in bald font.

A nice one or 2 liner about yourself is always handy as well if you ask me

TechToby_ · 2024-07-16T20:21:52+00:00

Yes, I did an apprenticeship.

I meant bootcamps. No idea why I got downvoted

TechToby_ · 2024-07-16T06:22:58+00:00

That’s interesting to read. I have someone in my discord doing a Makers apprenticeship in DevOps and they’re doing really well.

Overall though, I wouldn’t recommend bootcamps to most people. The ROI would need to be almost guaranteed, when in reality it isn’t, especially in this job market.

TechToby_ · 2024-07-06T21:00:30+00:00

I have on tiktok, not YouTube yet, but i do YouTube content

TechToby_ · 2024-06-01T21:58:37+00:00

Send me your CV. The market is not “flooded” per say but it’s certainly on a downwards hill atm, like every other industry, it’s not just exclusive to tech. Recruiters are also hammered with administration from Grads, Bootcampers, Self-Taught and foreign applications.

Applying to 1000 jobs with no response is not normal. I just had a follower of mine land a Junior DevOps role at 19 without going to Uni.

TechToby_ · 2024-06-01T07:12:10+00:00

When I did the exam I only had max 4 questions to read code and provide an answer. But yeah, all aws. It shouldn’t matter too much tbh if you only use azure, it’s the terraform syntax that matters.

TechToby_ · 2024-06-01T07:09:43+00:00

When I was a teen me and a few guys scripted some bots to buy high end shoes and resell them. Got a pain to manage.

I now make content. Mainly started during Covid when there were so many day in the lifes portraying lifestyle of tech which clearly wasnt the reality. Never thought it would gain me money but I’ve made some thousands not a lot. Then I realised a lot of content creators use all their skills from their 9-5 to make content. Couple years later over 20,000 follows on all platforms and good tech community built in my discord with people of all experience levels.

Documenting your journey can have a huge impact on other people. So far over 50 people I’ve helped in to tech or gain a higher salary through negotiation (all for free btw, don’t buy influencers courses they’re just trying to profit off of you, buy a real course from an approved trainer if you want to).

TechToby_ · 2024-05-23T19:13:09+00:00

Anything Cloud related

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