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I love how Boni conducted this interview and interviewee was great too......

Thank you Boni❤

I have a sister who has a Diploma in IT, but she needed to do some certifications in order to fully tap into the industry. A diploma/degree might cover most fundamental points in your career but a certification is also very useful because most certifications mainly focus on one particular sub-field in depth.

For instance, your might cover tutorials that are based on cybersecurity in your diploma/degree. But to fully go deeply in Cybersecurity, you need to do a certification in Cybersecurity.

Certifications and knowledge so much more worthwhile than a degree but companies still want that degree to hire you. You need to get that foot in that door and then start getting certifications that go along with your work experience then you can go far in your career...but with everything it's getting that foot in which will take some sacrifice.

Obviously venda👑

Thank you guys for sharing

nice one. Well said and explained by TK. Tech is the way to go. Danki Boni, great interview

Great video, very inspirational and packed with info. Which company is TK working for?

This guy is very knowledgable , I like how he just broke down the difference between cloud & devops

IT Certifications, is the way to go, interesting part is you not even forced to attend the college, i am the leaving experience, with only A+, N+ and MCSA, all self study and 10 years+ experience i am earning R30000+ working full time from home

I relate to TK's IT journey, but am still inspired.

He's moved to bmw😂

Great interview, amazing insights, i can also attest to the fact that you can collect all the certifications, but companies want someone who can do the job, prioritize the skill .

Well rounded and informative interview.

🙏🙏🙏❤️

inspiring

what up contacr please

Hey Boni thanks for the video, its really informative. Can we have a part 2, but could he elaborate more on Azure side than AWS, Basically the path of being Cloud engineer in an Azure environment

Certification is the good start for specialization in the IT space but I would not say it is replacing a degree, remember degrees are good for research and also helps in building things from the ground, for an examples developers utilize already existing tools but engineers build those tools. Degrees open doors to be able to change methods even optimize them.

Boni you know a lot of us want to get into tech but we struggle so much with just getting an interview even though we have the certification and university degrees .i would love to see you interview someone who’s on a IT graduate program or internship and let them shear they experience on how they it.

Big companies usually have official requirements for IT degrees. No serious company in eg industrial automation would hire someone without a degree. The truth is, we need both.

One issue I have with dumps is that people focus on passing certs and not the practical knowledge and that becomes a problem when it's time for interviews and answering technical questions. I know people who have this issue. We now have an issue of having too many "qualified" people with no core understanding of what they claim to know. I understand that we need jobs but what is that cert worth if you can't explain the simplest concepts. I feel like, this is creating an even bigger skills gap. A certification can get you an interview, but your applied skills and character will get you the job. My advice would be, there's a lot free learning material out there so don't focus entirely on dumps. Don't be that unemployed person with tons of Associate and Expert certifications who can't go past the first interview, let alone explain what you're "qualified" for. It's a futile exercise. Don't find yourself in that dumps trap - study first, then supplement what you've learned with dumps. I hope this make sense. 😉

This is great, hey specially I am a growing Software Engineering, and looking to work on AWS as a cloud engineering this video is giving 😅😍...But I am loving the coding part of this
One day maybe wish to be interviewed by you Hahaha🙃

I love how Boni and team took time to create chapters.

Ok so no degree. How did u land first role? Did you have projects? Which projects?

i have ccna, ccnp, MCP with lots of IT experience. I will love to share my experience too

coursera and Comptia are the leading providers of high level tech certificate.Especially if you wants a career switch or wanting to start on the Tech industries.The cost of registration Is less than 800 per month and you can finish these certificate in less than 3 months.WhIch means you can pay close to R2000 or less to get a certificate .

lol in IT job hopping is an advantage it means you can adapt easily

@liferesetwithboni can we have TK Linkedin? Very insightfull channel you have. Keep on doing the good work

Thank you for this insightful interview, i have learned alot, Please just a request from TK if he is ready to pay forward, and if he can offer some guide line. Thanks

Thank you for this insightful interview, i have learned alot, Please just a request from TK if he is ready to pay forward, and if he can offer some guide line. Thanks

Good content.

Thanks I have learned a lot

Thank you so much for this inspiration. What i can tell is that you have accelerated me to persue my careering Cloud Computing😍

If you bank with FNB, you can use your eBucks to get Udemy courses for R50 (pay with eBucks or Balance or both) - at the moment, the limit is 6 courses a year, and 2 a month :) hopefully this helps someone out there!

sisi youre doing well. your message is pure. im subscribing.

I love this guy, we clicking away 😂

In your first cloud role where you were the only Cloud Engineer. By then the company expects you to own the Infrastructure. As the only Cloud Engineer when you were scared of probably destroying the infrastructure, how did you get support from the company? Did you know about different environments at that point? just wondering the support you got during your time there when you were the only cloud Engineer with freedom to own the company's infrastructure, who helped you build your confidence then?

My career is the same. No degree no diploma after 18 years I still find no use for it, unless you want to get to management the soft skills do help. If its tech you are after just do certificates. Plus, I have noticed that those with degrees struggle to pass the certificate exams as there is no copy pasting of information. One must think to pass. Due to lack of professionally qualified (Industry Certifications) personnel the state has lost millions buying technologies and renting licenses for things they do not need. The academically qualified (degree\diploma) individuals that are placed do not know the full capabilities of the technologies they are custodians of.

Thank you very much for this podcast ❤❤❤❤❤

I recognise the headsets so i know where this guy works 😂

we have University of you tube to help sharpen our expertise..

Nzhelele 😂🔥that's where I am from also

IT did it for me i no degree i only have MCSE,N+,CCNA,CCNP, working towards my CCIE

Please help me I'm interested in SAP CERTIFICATE but i don't have any background on IT

Wonderful. Thank you very much for sharing such interesting content.

the moment he mention CI/CD, Kubernetes and Terraform. this man know exactly what he's talking about.