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  If not A+, then where should someone start?
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  @IRJ said in If not A+, then where should someone start?: @scottalanmiller said in If not A+, then where should someone start?: One a small shop, the number of resumes is small. Not many people apply to work at one person shops. Especially these days. Even larger shops with full IT teams often get nearly zero applications for IT work these days. You have to go seek applicants, they rarely come to you. You assume they using good job descriptions and revealing the company size Oh, you are assuming a situation where they are posting to job boards. I see, that makes sense. Although I can tell you that even when doing so, you get almost nothing as a smaller shop.
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  How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience
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  @PhlipElder i do agree there are some areas where MS is clear front runner like Office 365, but as far as infrastructure all major CSPs offer same services. It's on the SaaS side where there are some differences
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  Opening for an Infrastructure DevOps Engineer in Dallas
  career job hiring entrust datacard • • NetworkNerd  

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  SAMIT: Why IT Does Not Customize (Their Environments)
  youtube scott alan miller samit • • scottalanmiller  

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  I watched, its great advice. It is something I have always instinctively known but have never really been able to articulate. When SHTF, all the fancy trinkets and add-ons go bye-bye. Thanks Scott!!
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  Why Right to Fire (and Hire) May Be in the Employee's Favour
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  @IRJ said in Why Right to Fire (and Hire) May Be in the Employee's Favour: Why is most of the world against R2F? It seems like Europe, Middle East, and Asia all have laws against it? Not sure about the Americas outside of the US. A lot of the world are still driven by lots of low paid task worker jobs that are relatively speaking easy to replace.
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  How do you guys handle counter offers?
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  @IRJ I was able to move it over!
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  Salary, Responsibilities, or Title?
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  https://thenicholson.com/thinking-taking-offer-need-know/ Here is my 50+ point list of Questions and compensation related issues. Some stuff is straight forward: but start with immortal words of Wutang Finance. CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME EXCEPT WHEN OTHER ASSET CLASSES PROVIDE HIGHER RISK ADJUSTED YIELDS What I mean by this is cash is 100% solid comp, but other benefits (RSUs, 401K match, ESPP ) should be adjusted and factored in. Some stuff is situational: Support for “In plan post tax 401K to Roth” conversions may not strike your fancy, but I’m going to dodge a boat load of taxes over the years using this ”One trick several senators hate!”.
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  Why IT certifications are worth more than you think...
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  @scottalanmiller said in Why IT certifications are worth more than you think...: @Dashrender said in Why IT certifications are worth more than you think...: @scottalanmiller said in Why IT certifications are worth more than you think...: @Dashrender said in Why IT certifications are worth more than you think...: @scottalanmiller said in Why IT certifications are worth more than you think...: Management is more empathy than anything. Ug... Sorry, not getting a management job... but the job of actually managing. Oh, no, I understood you - This is something I constantly fail at. empathy for others. I just expect more from people... Sometimes empathy makes you expect more, not less I'm not sure if you're throwing platitudes at me?
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  Udemy - Black Friday deals - $9.99
  udemy • • fuznutz04  

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  I will also chime in and say that Udemy is great. I have been very impressed with how thorough the content for the courses I have purchased has been. Definitely worth the money if you ask me.
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  End of the year budget? 4th Quarter Last minute Hires?
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  @jmoore Sounds good and look forward to hearing from you! Thx
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  ONLYOFFICE Desktop editors v5.4 is available
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  Common Network Ports - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
  youtube networking comptia prof messer video training a+ it careers • • steve  

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  Nice video to understand a bit most of the common ports.
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  Introduction to IP - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
  youtube networking comptia prof messer video training it career a+ • • steve  

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  Very Interesting!
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  Engineer title alternative
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  @Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative: @scottalanmiller said in Engineer title alternative: @IRJ said in Engineer title alternative: @flaxking said in Engineer title alternative: @Obsolesce said in Engineer title alternative: IT Admin / Software Developer seems most accurate. What are you engineering in IT? Are you software engineering or developing? In IT, I engineer production and test environments. I do administration if there is something that has to get escalated to me. Software developer would probably be more accurate. Some projects I am mostly just a developer, on others I participate in the engineering. It kind of sounds like DevOps more than IT admin I got the impression that it was discrete roles. Writing code under one hat, doing IT under another. That was my impression as well. And that is true, for the most part.
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  How did you get started in IT?
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  First computer was a Gateway running Windows ME, I didn't have a choice...
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  Figuring out what you want to do professionally
  career jobs future • • Kelly  

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  @scottalanmiller said in Figuring out what you want to do professionally: @Kelly said in Figuring out what you want to do professionally: How I think my peers are doing (social media syndrom This one is tough because we tend to associate a lot of people as peers, and to some degree are correct. But, for example... If you feel as a Linux Admin that a Windows Admin is a peer, you will likely always have one person that feels that they are "behind" on PowerShell and object scripting, and one that always feels that they are "behind" on text processing. But really, it's because they aren't direct peers. Sure, they are equals, but they aren't doing the exact same job. Exactly why I refer to this as the Social Media syndrome. "Based on my perception of myself in relation to this narrow slice of what I see of you (not allowing for any context), I am not as good as you." Even two Windows Admins will not have the same sets of responsibilities and scope within their job. IT (and many other jobs) is full of "oughts". I ought to do more automation. I ought to have a <type> plan. I ought to have more documentation. I ought to understand this LOB software better. I ought... I have judged myself based on my oughts and other based on their successes. It is a deceptive, and ultimately destructive, perception.
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  LinkedIn Endorsements
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  Looking for a new IT role or looking to hire for an IT role.
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  @flaxking I will check in our system to see what we currently have. I just received your resume and will be reaching out shortly this afternoon.
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  Starting a job search
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  @flaxking said in Starting a job search: ound of interviews for a sysadmin position at GitLab. However, this has fueled me into starting an active job search. However, I'm not quite sure how to start it. I would love to assist. Please send me your resume and I can see what openings I currently have.
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  Updated my Resume
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  @s-hackleman Happy to share two versions of mine for comparison [current] [current-summary]
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  Hard Reset iPhone 5c without iCloud password
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  @thanksajdotcom right direction. The first way to solve this problem is to reset your iCloud account password online, the second to use iTunes to reset, and the third is to use third-party tools to hard reset iPhone without iCloud password (final solution). Here are the steps to use iTunes: Connect to iTunes> Click on the Summary tab in the left list of iTunes > select Restore iPhone Options > select "Restore" option in the prompt window > click "Restore and Update" > iPhone will restart.
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  Uncertain Of Wants
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  @flaxking I love writing Powershell scripts, but I can't see myself full time developing, despite my wanting to learn C# or Jquery. Hmm, I think I'll try and continue down the Azure Devops path, get that cert and go from there.
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  Just How Hard is University to Overcome
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  BBC News - India school-leaving exam: The controversy that cost 23 lives https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-48050020
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  Interviewing with Amazon
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  @IRJ said in Interviewing with Amazon: @stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon: @scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon: @stacksofplates said in Interviewing with Amazon: @scottalanmiller said in Interviewing with Amazon: @RandyBlevins said in Interviewing with Amazon: I've heard these type of tech companies can have NDA and brutal interviews. I interviewed with Amazon and there is no NDA. No self respecting company will use an NDA, because no one worth their salt with even entertain doing an interview with you under NDA. Amazon interview was fair, not harsh. Reasonable. Certainly no walk in the park, and long. Well I definitely signed an NDA when interviewing with them. Really? That's odd. Was that for an interview stage or was it past that point and like after you were offered a position? I had around 6 interviews total. What were your impressions and how did it go? Mine was decent. Only two interviews. One phone, then they flew me out for a few days. They did one full day of interviews then paid for me to stay in Seattle to get to know the city and make moving decisions. The whole process was pretty smooth and well done. Nothing to knock your socks off, but better than Facebook, not as good as most Wall St. firms. But way better than an average Fortune 100 firm. Very professional. Took me out to lunch. Interview process was reasonable, not some silly "did you happen to memorize the right answers" kind of BS.
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  Writing a good CV
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  @IRJ My thought as well just wanted to check lol
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  Are Security Careers Real?
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  Target needs security along with Sony
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  You need to get cloud certified!
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  Hey, thanks
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  Cloud Models - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
  virtualization youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career cloud computing a+ cloud • • steve  

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  It only seems like private isn't available because no one does that. Why wants private cloud? no one, not really. It's essentially a dumb idea. It basically exists for crazy people and governments where "good decision making" isn't a factor. But hybrid is ruled out in both of those cases either because it doesn't support the "crazy" or the legal government requirement.
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  Client-side Virtualization - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
  virtualization youtube comptia prof messer certification video training it career it training a+ • • steve  

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  @Obsolesce said in Client-side Virtualization - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: @scottalanmiller said in Client-side Virtualization - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: @Obsolesce said in Client-side Virtualization - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: @IRJ said in Client-side Virtualization - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: Who would license Windows Server to run an inefficient web server? Nobody in their right mind would do that. Again, like Scott, why add in things that were never part of any point? Let me refresh the point: Scott originally compared full blown Windows Desktop GUI plus web browser and other app RAM usage, to a minimal gui-less Linux server RAM usage. This was what I was arguing against, that the comparison was not fair and was not set up correctly. Except I was specifically making the comparison on use case, not on technology. So the bases for your correction doesn't make sense. I pointed out that one was assumed to have a GUI and be used graphically, and one was assumed to be a headless server. So my comparison wasn't Windows vs Linux, it was use case vs. use case. What use case comparison involves Windows GUI + web browsing versus GUI-less Linux minimal install? Lots. Like when you are using RDS versus using a PBX. It's that we are comparing different use cases is the point. Not comparing the same use case in two different places.
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  How to Troubleshoot - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
  youtube comptia prof messer video training it career it training a+ troubleshooting • • steve  

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  @connorsoliver said in How to Troubleshoot - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: So is IT always dealing server based problems? Not sure how you mean the question. Are you asking... Will server issues every go away? Then.. no. Is IT always responsible for servers? Then... yes. Will servers always exist? Then... yes. Will servers always have issues? Then... yes.