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Avenging_Mikon posted:Uh oh. Chubby's not posted since then! MURDER MOST FOUL! I survived the encounter. I got to learn how much better the world outside of MSP hell is though. A good reminder to get my poo poo together and jump ship :> e: God what an awful page snipe. I don't even have anything interesting to put here. Let me go brick an MSA so I have a story....
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TheFace posted:Key is it has to be just big enough that "IT Director" will get you exposure to actually doing the management work that is expected of the role. Example, the IT Director title on my resume means fuckall as it was a company with about 125 total employees and the IT department amounted to me, and a guy who did both Customer Service for the company and L1/2 Help Desk work for me. Resume lies. They're all the rage!
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Oct 26, 2017 23:15
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They aren't necessarily lies. Just some abstraction of the truth.
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Oct 26, 2017 23:21
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Really? Because my understanding of that role is that you were leading a geographically distributed team managing a number of 24/7 datacenters. Is that what I've been doing wrong? It's getting increasingly hard to get callbacks on my resume when i switch jobs every year, even though they're solid increases in responsibility (and massive jumps in pay)
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Oct 26, 2017 23:24
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Is that what I've been doing wrong? Is your resume longer than a single page?
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Oct 26, 2017 23:25
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That’s why I really want to be able to stay here for a while. My resume goes 11 months, 9 months, 3 months, 3 months. The 9, 3, and 3 are contracts and it says so on the resume, but I still get some questions about why I job hop so much. At this point I’m at a bit less than 9.5 months at my current job.
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Oct 26, 2017 23:30
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What an interesting 2 weeks. I really thought after my boss being fired that things would go lovely but the atmosphere has improved quite a lot. I continue to put effort into the security initiative and these guys seem to be backtracking on outsourcing it. Usually when we have to do introduction with vendors I downplay my role but my new boss went out of his way to talk about the security initiatives I'm leading and that I'm looking to become our next CISO. I originally thought he was just a friend of a friend we hired but it turns out he was CTO of a larger firm before coming here and legit knows how operate the presales practice of a VAR. Over the past 2 weeks they've finally replaced the staff that have quit or were fired in the past 2 months and are now headhunting a junior network engineer so that I can focus more on where I want to be. Hopefully things continue to move in a positive trend.
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Oct 26, 2017 23:33
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22 Eargesplitten posted:That’s why I really want to be able to stay here for a while. My resume goes 11 months, 9 months, 3 months, 3 months. The 9, 3, and 3 are contracts and it says so on the resume, but I still get some questions about why I job hop so much. You could combine those 9/3/3 stints into a single 'contract consultant' type thing and list all the poo poo you did across all 3 under 1 heading?
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Oct 26, 2017 23:39
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Sickening posted:Is your resume longer than a single page? Hell no, never will be. E: hell you're in a position I would love to have, if you want to check out my resume and tell me how bad it is I'd love the feedback. My old resume landed me three tech jobs, the new one not a peep (though I haven't been trying even 75%) Judge Schnoopy fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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Oct 26, 2017 23:40
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Sepist posted:What an interesting 2 weeks. I really thought after my boss being fired that things would go lovely but the atmosphere has improved quite a lot. I continue to put effort into the security initiative and these guys seem to be backtracking on outsourcing it. Usually when we have to do introduction with vendors I downplay my role but my new boss went out of his way to talk about the security initiatives I'm leading and that I'm looking to become our next CISO. I originally thought he was just a friend of a friend we hired but it turns out he was CTO of a larger firm before coming here and legit knows how operate the presales practice of a VAR. Over the past 2 weeks they've finally replaced the staff that have quit or were fired in the past 2 months and are now headhunting a junior network engineer so that I can focus more on where I want to be. Hopefully things continue to move in a positive trend. drat. Sounds like this is moving in a good direction for you.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Hell no, never will be. Honest truth, I look askance at one page resumes for senior positions (SMEs and group leads are usually what I'm looking at). You need to sell me on why I should call you in. Give me details like you lead an initiative that ended up saving the company $X/yr or reduced the time needed to execute a particular set of tasks from X hours to Y hours. Dazzle me with certs. Wow me with any out-of-work projects like setting up and consulting for a network at a local non-profit. Any white papers? Presentations at conferences? I want to see that on the resume/CV. Entry level, sure, one page is fine. But I usually get at least two, maybe three, pages for non-entry stuff. You go past three, then I'm back to side-eying the whole thing. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Oct 27, 2017 01:26
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My resume is 2 pages. 2 pages is the correct number. If you have less than 2 pages, get more experience, and if you have more than 2 pages you are vastly over estimating how much I care about something you did 12 years ago, or don't know which bullets are important and which are filler.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:43
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:My resume is 2 pages. 2 pages is the correct number. If you have less than 2 pages, get more experience, and if you have more than 2 pages you are vastly over estimating how much I care about something you did 12 years ago, or don't know which bullets are important and which are filler. Once your experience exceeds two pages cut off the oldest bit until it fits one page. I don’t personally care what you did 10 years ago and it seems not many other people do either. To each their own of course. I def get more bites when I cut mine down to one.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:46
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If you have patents, peer reviewed publications, have written books, or have other discrete products, feel free to list them all. Not going to apply to everybody, but it's a situation where you're marketing yourself more as an artisan, and that's when a portfolio matters.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:59
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We had a guy apply for a helpdesk role with an 8 page resume. Pretty sure he didn't get a call.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:24
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you ate my cat posted:We had a guy apply for a helpdesk role with an 8 page resume. Pretty sure he didn't get a call. I did get one once of a guy with no practical experience but a "Masters in IT Management". Page after page of simulated project deployments.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:31
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What does that even mean? Drafting on paper an IT infrastructure for an fictious organization?
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Oct 27, 2017 02:39
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Better known as, being a Project Manager. Just kidding. The only thing they're sending you is an email CC'ing the CEO and 3 department heads with a status update request wondering why they weren't hired last week..
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We just hired a project manager that turned in a 71 page application
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Oct 27, 2017 04:10
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Methaers(sp?) post about windows stuff was spot on. The only part I slightly disagree with is that being a Windows admin isn’t going to change. Both mesos and kubernetes have active projects towards natively running schedulers on Windows, using containers. It maybe a huge bust but I could foresee a world where VMs are slowly replaced by containers. Edit: This is already out of date but is Microsoft showing you how to run IIS as a docker container in azure. AKS(A very recent rebranding of acs) can now run cross OS workloads that can use kubernetes native tooling to glue things together. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-service/kubernetes/container-service-kubernetes-windows-walkthrough Cool things Id want people to take away from that link are: Docker/Windows is working which means a ton of interesting deployment patterns can come to Windows Look at how easy it was to setup and expose an app via a load balancer even as compared to terraform or via the various cloud vendor consoles I can control my Windows and Linux infra from one place. How easy it is to have a fully functional app using isolated configs up and running. freeasinbeer fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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MrMoo posted:What does that even mean? Drafting on paper an IT infrastructure for an fictious organization? That's exactly what it means. They were given project requirements, drafted a plan, set fake milestones, and implemented it on a small subset of representative equipment/VMs in a lab environment. There were more than one on his resume. In excruciating detail. Over five or six pages. The only "real world" experience he had was an internship as a help-desk helper during the summer between earning his B.S. and starting on his M.S. He was applying for a security architect position.
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Proteus Jones posted:That's exactly what it means. They were given project requirements, drafted a plan, set fake milestones, and implemented it on a small subset of representative equipment/VMs in a lab environment. As funny as it is that person is probably going to be an exec one day. No shame in them at all.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:It is stuff like this though that reminds me how wildly responsibilities vary from position to position. I see IT directors for a department of 3 and then I think about our IT director who oversees I want to say about 25,000 VMs and it just boggles my mind that they're the same title. GreenNight posted:Anyone have an experience with this poo poo?
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Vargatron posted:My old employer just posted a job ad to backfill my position. Hell no. Even it was more that’s a weird mix of skills. EDI is weird AS/400 stuff.
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GreenNight posted:Anyone have an experience with this poo poo? I worked with the Fiserv-branded version, Nautilus, on and off for several years. The interface was clunky, but the last version I saw was older, so that may or may not be the case anymore. Either way, it did its job well enough that I can't fault it too much. Like all systems that give you freedom to configure and build within, it's only as good as the implementation. Definitely get someone full time to manage it.
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Tab8715 posted:Hell no. Even it was more that’s a weird mix of skills. EDI is weird AS/400 stuff. It's not necessarily AS/400 based. It's basically just a method of transferring orders and poo poo electronically. Orders, invoices, acknowledgements...Then you start getting into VAN's and added services like integration with your systems, you can have the poo poo delivered over a bunch of different network protocols, and you can encode that poo poo in a bunch of different ways as well.
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Same question I asked 3-4 years ago - let's see what has changed. What's everyone's daily IT reading? Weekly, occasional?
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Oct 27, 2017 12:59
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Same question I asked 3-4 years ago - let's see what has changed. This thread, SecFuck thread, ???
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Same question I asked 3-4 years ago - let's see what has changed. Here; occasional reddit browsing. A lot of info coming from Slack teams these days for me; which many are just IRC bridges 
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Same question I asked 3-4 years ago - let's see what has changed. This thread, Code Project's mailing list I've been on for a decade, some infosec twitter accounts, and books. Last book: Building Microservices Current book: Design Patterns Next book: The Goal, or, The Design of Design
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Tab8715 posted:Hell no. Even it was more that’s a weird mix of skills. EDI is weird AS/400 stuff. Most companies have a dedicated EDI specialist, depending on volume. It wouldn't be that bad of a job if it was just EDI.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Same question I asked 3-4 years ago - let's see what has changed. HackerNews, HackerNoon, Arstechnica,
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Vargatron posted:Most companies have a dedicated EDI specialist, depending on volume. It wouldn't be that bad of a job if it was just EDI. We're looking to someone so our main programmer can be the EDI specialist. It's not easy work.
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Well the key issue is that there are so many different standards that are used, especially if you deal internationally. Also each customer tends to want slight variations on the accepted standards, so even if you developed a mapping that was 100% in keeping with their standards, they want something different.
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Cirofren posted:This thread, Code Project's mailing list I've been on for a decade, some infosec twitter accounts, and books. I liked the Goal. Everyone raves about the Phoenix Project but it did not hook me nearly as much, I think I stopped reading about halfway through.
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Wonderful morning. Came in and had some users randomly losing and regaining O365 email connections with no rhyme or reason. Work on it for 45+ minutes. Try using outlook.office365.com and it works for some people, until I come across one who gets a "malware site" false positive from Meraki. Whitelist O365 and starts working again instantly 
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Kashuno posted:Wonderful morning. Came in and had some users randomly losing and regaining O365 email connections with no rhyme or reason. Work on it for 45+ minutes. Try using outlook.office365.com and it works for some people, until I come across one who gets a "malware site" false positive from Meraki. Whitelist O365 and starts working again instantly To be perfectly fair Outlook.office365.com will serve more malware to your users than any other site
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Kashuno posted:Wonderful morning. Came in and had some users randomly losing and regaining O365 email connections with no rhyme or reason. Work on it for 45+ minutes. Try using outlook.office365.com and it works for some people, until I come across one who gets a "malware site" false positive from Meraki. Whitelist O365 and starts working again instantly Meraki's malware detection is notoriously bad so this isn't surprising at all. Wasn't there an issue last year where they started flagging dashboard.meraki.com as a malicious site as well? Doesn't get much less competent than that.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Same question I asked 3-4 years ago - let's see what has changed. Threads here, Slashdot, Ars, Torrent Freak for online stuff. Currently going through Cisco's End-to-End QoS book, will probably go through my CCNP Route book or Halabi's Internet Routing Architectures again after that.
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