[wellylug]how to get your foot in the door of the world of UNIX ?

[Mian Lin]

Let me make myself clear.

Recently I have been looking around on the seek and trademe websites.
Fewer of junior or graduate unix system engineer positions are
available in Wellington or other places in NZ compared in Australia.
Instead, there are quite a lot of senior Unix positions available in
the market.

The big guys like IBM and HP, they will ask the graduates for "A"
average grade of a credit. How many students can get such a grade when
they are working and studying at the same time or for other some
reason.

I heard a guy who graduated from the university of otago found the job
after six months. So I am just confused that if I should get the job
whatever it is.

I applied a one-day work to install several solaris and linux servers
half a year ago.(I have a sparc machine at home,so I know a bit of
solaris 9)  But I was declined by "less commercial experience" said by
a job agent.
.The field site training is a good start, I prefer to find the one
myself instead of from the school.
There is first time for everything. I hope the people on the list can
share their first unix or IT job hunting experience.

Thanks