It’s been just over three months since I joined GLOBESY as a junior consultant. Was it always my dream job? If I said yes, I’d be lying. Not because I didn’t enjoy it or because there was something wrong with the role.
The problem isn’t that. It’s just hard to call it a dream job when I only found out a few days before sending my CV that such a position even existed.
No Experience, No Cookies?
I’ll start with a bit of a detour. I began looking for a job right after graduation. IT interested me, and I checked out various offers, but I kept running into requirements for at least one year of experience and ideally a related field of study.
I met neither requirement. I had a few part-time jobs during school and a degree from a faculty that prepared me for a career in security or protection of people and property.
A Lucky Coincidence
I learned about the support consultant role mostly by chance. A friend mentioned that the company was looking for someone for a position that combined helpdesk and other customer requests with testing tasks.
He said I could give it a try. No work experience was necessary and no previous IT studies were a prerequisite. On the other hand, it was necessary to make up for it with a willingness to learn, an insight into technology and good communication. I said to myself – why not.
I sent my CV, and a few days later, I met two Katkas in an online interview. One was an HR specialist, and the other became my current team leader.
Learn, Prepare, Present
During the interview, it was made clear that I would have to study a lot on my own. And indeed, that’s what happened. During the first days, I walked around the company, got to know my colleagues, and started learning.
I faced a lot of reading and manuals, but it wasn’t just theory. I had to study an application developed at GLOBESY and prepare test scenarios for it.
About two months later, I presented this initial assignment to the team. I expected a slightly tense “exam-like” atmosphere, but in the end, it was completely fine. I received a few tips from more experienced colleagues on how to approach things differently and what to focus on in the future.
Where to Go Next?
While working on the initial assignment, I gradually got exposure to various topics. Under the guidance of my teammates, I began participating in service desks, handling simple incidents, and slowly learning how to conduct training sessions for users.
Thanks to this, I now better understand what I enjoy and the direction I want to take. Testing is fun, but at a certain stage it shifts toward programming, where I don’t really see myself.
Consulting, on the other hand, is varied and situations can arise at any time that I would never have thought of. And I enjoy that. Interacting with people, learning new things, solving unexpected problems. That’s the purely consulting direction that I would like to take in the future.
What Surprised Me
I won’t lie — at first, it’s a lot to take in. But I’ve met amazing people here, and I like the way things are set up: we’re all colleagues, and everyone helps each other, which isn’t always a given.
There’s still a lot to learn, but that doesn’t bother me. In fact, I enjoy it, because every new thing moves me forward. Sometimes I’m even surprised at how far someone can progress in a relatively short time.
What’s even more interesting is that just a few months ago, I didn’t even know that this kind of job existed.
