Don’t get trapped in IT Helpdesk Hell
We all know that there are multiple ways to get into IT, but the most common way people know about is to start in a help desk position. My name is Jubie, co-founder at Yellow Tail Tech, where we help people with no IT background get their first high-paying IT job. Today I wanna talk […]
A day in a life of a Yellow Tail Tech student
I’m JV and today I share a day in my life with you as a Yellow Tail student. Usually, I start my day doing the usual stuff. Brushing my teeth, changing into my uniform, and preparing for work. I usually leave around 6:50 and it takes about 45 minutes with traffic close to an hour. […]
How Jubee got into Tech
I went to school for management information system so basically the idea was I was trying to figure out what to get in. A friend of mine told me you have both interests. You have an interest in technology and in business. There’s this cool program at the University of Maryland that combines the two. […]
Degree or Certification?
What’s more important either the degree or the certification? Take it from someone with a few degrees myself. Absolutely, absolutely the certifications and the hands-on. And that’s what happened after my fancy degrees, I went to the market. They were like, “Okay. So yeah. Do you have those degrees once we add you to […]
How COVID impacted Yellow Tail Tech
Positively, positively, definitely, because it did two things. When the pandemic hit, we just completed a complete pivot to having an exclusively online program. So it’s just like adding gas to the fire that we already put together because, after COVID, people were more receptive to the idea of online corroboration in general. Here and […]
Requirements to become a teacher
What are the requirements to become an instructor? Interesting stats. The first thing is that 90% of our instructors was trained by us. So most of our instructors have the same background. That’s the big difference also, by the way, when we were talking about colleges, versus what we offer here, is that most of […]
The Trap of Inexpensive Online Courses
The Trap of Inexpensive Online Courses Explained Hello, my name is Jubee, co-founder at Yellow Tail, where we help people with no IT background get their first high-paying IT job. So today I want to talk about the trap of inexpensive courses and training platforms. The Overabundance of Low-Cost Information I’m sure you know that […]
How to keep up to date with technology?
How to keep up to date with technology? The first difference is we have our ears to what the market needs through our instructors. Don’t forget, they are full-blown professional on the daytime, right? So they know what’s happening in their environment. They know what’s needed. They know what’s hot. They know what’s staying because […]
What Questions Are Asked In An IT Interview
Tell me about what you’ve done last week? A very open ended questions. So that’s why I tell students, “You have to show up with a book of examples, with a book of scenarios.” Interviews lately tend to be more scenario based, they want to see not only an answer, but your thought process to […]
How Is The IT Job Market
That’s a good question. And especially now with Amazon Web Services as the biggest Cloud computing service, a lot. The sheer amount of jobs available, there are always more jobs than people ready, and trained to take them. So, it’s a great place to be. And also, the trend of infrastructure is moving towards the […]