
Join the ITV Hub starter pack to begin an IT help desk career, whatever your prior experience, and follow the agenda to prepare for junior interviews.
Outline the it help desk starter pack course structure and introductions. Explore outsourcing, day-in-the-life of a helpdesk agent, essential tools, ticketing processes, and hr questions, scenarios, and salary negotiation.
Meet your instructor Carolyn, with more than eight years in the IT industry and as a ServiceNow ITSM consultant, who will share knowledge on ITSM and outsourcing companies.
Explore how outsourcing forms agreements between companies to delegate services like IT support, finance, and HR, with service level agreements guiding performance and risk.
Develop multitasking as you log in, manage breaks, join your assignment group, and raise tickets for incidents and requests via calls, email, portal, or chat, while maintaining quality.
Explore hardware essentials for the IT help desk, including employer-provided laptops or desktops, and key peripherals like mice, keyboards, headsets, USB drives, and phones.
Explore how IT help desks use ITSM tools like ServiceNow, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange to manage tickets and access the knowledge base, with VPN and Outlook workflows.
Explore ITSM processes in ServiceNow by obtaining a free ServiceNow instance, configuring the banner, and reviewing definitions, personas, real-life scenarios, process diagrams, and demonstrations.
Register on the ServiceNow developer site, verify your email, and request a New York instance. Explore the instance interface and its configuration options.
Navigate the service now user interface, detailing the banner, application navigator, and content frame, and learn how user menus, impersonation, and elevated roles shape access.
Navigate to application navigator ui 16, open basic configuration ui 16 under system properties, then customize the banner by updating the logo, header text, and header background color, and save.
Define incident management and major incident management, outline end-to-end processes, and demonstrate ServiceNow workflows, knowledge articles, and help desk roles.
Learn the service request management lifecycle and request fulfillment in ServiceNow, handling end-user requests—from password resets to app access—via multi-stage workflows, approvals, and delivery to close.
Learn how knowledge management uses knowledge bases and articles to empower end users and agents, delivering the right information at the right time to boost service quality.
Define and manage service level, organization level, and underpinning contracts to improve IT service quality, while monitoring and reporting SLAs in ServiceNow.
Master IT help desk interview readiness by refining your CV and LinkedIn profile, handling HR questions, analyzing job descriptions, and negotiating salary with practical examples.
This course will walk you through everything you would need as a Help Desk agent and by the end of it you will be confident to take on any junior interview.
Unlike other existing courses out there, this one has been carefully designed to meet all the needs of the candidates and in addition to that, the agenda has been tailored to the latest tech industry.
Don’t believe me? Imagine that this course includes: ServiceNow, ITSM Processes, HR Ready, Hardware and Software!
Speaking about the IT industry, it is growing at an alarming pace and the need of IT professionals continues to rise. If you’re eager to venture into the field of technical support and looking to join this growing profession then this course is the solution for you and will help you land a job in no time.
With or without experience, it’s definitely worth #trying because of the valuable content, a digital certification that will be issued upon completion, engaging instructor and many other advantages that you’ll discover while following the course.
Course Agenda:
Chapter I – Intro
• Agenda
• Meet the instructor
• Outsourcing
• A day in the life of a Help Desk agent
Chapter II – Tools
• Hardware – Intro
• Software – Active Directory, MS Exchange, MS Outlook, VPN, Remote tools, Workforce Management, ITSM Tools
Chapter III – ServiceNow + ITSM Processes applied in ServiceNow
• Hands-On ServiceNow Instance
• User Interface
• Incident Management – Definition, Personas, Use Case(s), Diagram, Demonstration
• Service Request Management- Definition, Personas, Use Case(s), Diagram, Demonstration
• Knowledge Management- Definition, Personas, Use Case(s), Diagram, Demonstration
• Service Level Management- Definition, Personas, Use Case(s), Diagram, Demonstration
Chapter IV – HR Ready
• Walkthrough of Top HR questions + scenarios
• Job Description
• Salary negotiation technique
• Role play
Join me onto this path and we can become Industry colleagues in no time.