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Service Desk

Location: United States
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Resolve technical issues and escalate network outages alongside Datacom’s service desk team

Welcome to the Datacom Service Desk Job Simulation! We are thrilled to have you here.

Datacom is a leading IT service provider, offering innovative and customer-centric IT solutions across various sectors. Within our managed services division, our teams work tirelessly to ensure seamless IT operations for our clients, address a wide range of technical challenges, and guarantee high levels of customer satisfaction.

During this program, you will get the opportunity to step into the shoes of a Datacom team member and complete tasks that replicate the work that our service desk team does every day. You’ll learn key skills in:

Effective problem-solving and troubleshooting for technical issues.Providing excellent customer service and clear communication.Prioritising and managing IT support tickets.Escalating complex issues according to IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes.

We hope this program provides a great resource for you to upskill and strengthen your resume as you explore career options and a potential career at Datacom.

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Intro & Scenario
    Background context and your project team
  • Technical issue resolution
    Help a Datacom client with their technical hurdles by resolving their email access issue with expert troubleshooting and communication

    • Critical Thinking
    • Communication
    • Documentation
  • Customer support and escalation
    Tackle a network outage with strategic prioritisation and clear client communication

    • Analytical Thinking
    • Problem Solving
    • Time Management
    • Communication
    • IT Service Management
  • Finish Line

Experience Information

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Are you looking to use real-time job market data to make informed decisions about your future career path, explore relevant salary data, or identify the skills you need to build or market to get your next role? Use the following tool to explore your options.

There are two ways to navigate this tool:

  1. Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue, or skills you may have that could be relevant for a particular career path.
  2. Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.
Find career data by selecting keywords Keyword Search
or, by filtering for industry and occupation Industry Search

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

  • 01 Occupation Description
  • 02 Employment Trends
  • 03 Top Employers
  • 04 Education Levels
  • 05 Annual Earnings
  • 06 Technical Skills
  • 07 Core Competencies
  • 08 Job Titles

Occupation Description

Employment Trends

The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.

Top Employers

These companies are currently hiring for .

    Education Levels

    The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.

    Annual Earnings

    Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.

    Technical Skills

    A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.

      Core Competencies

      The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.

        Job Titles

        A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.

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