Tech Savvy

In my beginning steps towards my professional career as an IT Support specialist, I was to create multiple forms of resumes including both functional and chronological this week for my Social Networking and Business class. At first, I thought I had a strong resume only because my first draft had a lot of information on it that described my previous work experienced. I realize now that if I truly want the title I'm going after, changes will have to be made with my old ways.

As you can see, this resume would be deemed "alright" if I used it for my first part-time job. However, it would never hold its own against other resumes in the IT world. I was taught from my professor Larry Domine that one's resume needs to impress those hiring you in less than 30 seconds. Those 30 seconds could be wasted if your personal resume is filled with paragraphs of hard to read text or pictures that have nothing to with the resume (including tables, charts, or unnecessary underling/italicizing. With the two new resumes that were created, many possibilities opened for me. My new LinkedIn account also allows me to share my resumes out there with people that are looking for Support Specialists.

If you would like to see my new and improved resumes, email me at JamesBeMurph@gmail.com and I will definitely get back to you right away.

"Why I am at MATC"

I decided to come to MATC after leaving the University of Louisville's engineering school. This means that I have a had past college experience with a lot of math as well as working on computers for a multitude of reasons, rather that be building a computer to process programs such as Autodesk or having to design a machine from the ground up to complete multiple tasks. That is what truly intrigued me in the engineering field and that fascination let me pursue a degree in IT Support.

In the past two years, I have not only built my own computer from scratch, but also helped four different friends build their computers also. I'm not only interested in building them, but what also runs on them. I've had some experience working on a Teamspeak server that allow people to talk to one another with up to 200 other people at the same time. The server I help work on has never had that amount of people before, but we structured it that way just in case.

I'm hoping to further my studies after MATC by completing my bachelors at another college. I'm glad MATC is guiding me on this path that I set out on.