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  Feedback on Resume
  • wirestyle22

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  @wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:

  Barnabas Health: Just standard desktop support, no frills. Printers broken, internet explorer won't load this website, imaging, etc.

  Garden State Foot & Ankle: I was hired to build a server for them to house X-rays. I was a resource to the owner. He would come up with things he wanted to do and then I was the one to explain how to do them. Desktop support, cabling, purchasing, etc. I honestly was not called very often, the owner was and is a friend of mine who is a podiatrist.

  The Arc: I was the director of IT. I was responsible for every appliance, server, workstation, etc. All devices. I handled all of the purchasing in relation to IT. I was the sole IT person covering 33 sites all over ocean county (very large county).

  Will continue to update throughout the day. I have some calls coming in

  YMCA: I am the point of escalation for all of the servers and network. Not a lot has happened after my initial walk-through. I found some incorrect entries here and there which were fixed.

  City of Trenton: TBD, big list.

  Note: I added some of the stuff @scottalanmiller said to do in my lab to train my resume. I am in the process of doing some of that at home

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  Jump on the resume bandwagon
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  @ramblingbiped I agree with this assessment. Also make sure to place the certificates on top. Yes, also make sure that you place all the time you have worked in the IT field.

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  Well, that really, really sucks.
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  @travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

  @scottalanmiller said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

  If I wasn't running on zero sleep and had four kids in tow I would have stopped in Wooster for a bit this afternoon as I drove through! I ate at your Taco Bell, though!

  @scottalanmiller likes to live dangerously on road trips! Taco Bell is great for a cheap meal, but often times is a cause of distress.

  Never bothers me like that. Not at all, in fact it's one of the mildest meals that I can eat.

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  Time allocation for training
  training time management • • EddieJennings

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  I'm with Scott, if your company expects you to have specific skills for them and you didn't walk through the door with those skills, then they need to provide you paid time to acquire them. But your time is your time. Learn what you want to help you further your career.

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  Critical Thinking - Is this what College Teaches?
  college critical thinking • • DustinB3403

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  And I want to keep repeating this... college has value. But this is certainly not it. Critical thinking is specifically one of the farthest things from what college does. College is far better at exposure to culture, making social connections, keeping people out of the workforce so that older workers can have lower unemployment and so forth. There is value, but it's mostly outside of education.

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  Should I stay or should I go now?
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  Those are good points.

  :P

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  SAM: Learning Linux System Administration
  scottalanmiller linux career education sam linux administration scott alan miller • • scottalanmiller

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  Added: https://mangolassi.it/topic/14282/why-does-root-get-a-special-home-directory

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  When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator
  job titles system admin • • scottalanmiller

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  @Dashrender said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @wirestyle22 said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @wirestyle22 said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @wirestyle22 said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @wirestyle22 said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @Dashrender said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @Dashrender said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  @scottalanmiller said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

  Also notice, according to ASVAB... there is no title, whatsoever, for the ENTIRE SMB IT space. Not a single one.

  And really - there probably shouldn't be. As mentioned - though not accepted by Scott - Generalist would not be acceptable to most people hiring in the SMB space, at least with my very limited exposure.

  So of course, Scott's right - we should only 'talk' about correct things, and not have discussions around incorrect things - bad practices - but at the same time, knowing your audience and making your resume suit that situation is key.

  Right, knowing the truth and knowing how to market are two different things. But you can't market well if you don't know the truth.

  Then you have to decide if you are going to market well within the truth, or just lie.

  So I either lie or I market myself poorly. Great.

  Welcome to American employment ;)

  I'm not going to be a shitty person to make money, so I guess I'm choosing poverty

  You are still assuming that I said you have to lie. But read what I actually wrote.

  I do see it, but telling the truth is making myself non-competitive--not that I even consider it an option to lie.

  WHY does telling the truth make you feel non-competitive?

  Please don't start this conversation again lol. I'm actually just being honest, not having a pity party. The better question is what makes me competitive?

  Drive. granted that only gets you into the entry level jobs.. then you need to learn skills to move up.

  How about honesty?

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  Start Dream Biz vs Start New Job
  • bigbear

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  @scottalanmiller my approach would be more community driven, on higher volume products.

  Come here to X organization and buy all your X products. We will go get and share the best wholesale pricing based on that volume and charge a transparent for (or membership?). Spread the word, grow the volume, etc.

  One advantage I have, aside from having savings, is an in-place customer base and volume that I can keep. My previous employer isnt interested in this business and so long as I am not selling phone service or competing I can still sell to those customers.

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  Solved Which IT role I am suitable and to which should I apply for ?
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  @scottalanmiller said in Which IT role I am suitable and to which should I apply for ?:

  @openit said in Which IT role I am suitable and to which should I apply for ?:

  How about selecting BA or HA, isn't there anything like that here ?

  No, those cause lots of confusion. Upvote thing that are helpful. You can mark something solved, but not BA. BA doesn't say that it is solved and provides for a lot of confusion.

  Unless you have intentionally restricted something, the post as question plugin allows the OP to specify a specific post as the solution.

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  Negotiating for a Job You Are Leaving
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  @coliver hail skroob

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  SMB vs Enterprise
  • IRJ

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  @Tim_G said in SMB vs Enterprise:

  @John-Nicholson said in SMB vs Enterprise:

  @scottalanmiller Always loved CS Lewis's quote on this.

  It is a mistake to think that Christians ought all to be teetotallers; Mohammedanism, not Christianity, is the teetotal religion

  Actually, alcoholic beverages are forbidden in Christianity. In all of the many different Bibles, old testament and new. The problem is that people see "wine" and think of it as today's alcoholic wine...

  And it was. The word used had no other connotations. It's both the word used, and the only one that makes sense in context.

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  Is Most IT Really Corrupt?
  • scottalanmiller

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  @PenguinWrangler said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

  @scottalanmiller said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

  @PenguinWrangler said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

  The things you listen are not necessarily because of IT. Other professions could do this to a business as well. This is just a moral issue related to the person not the profession. Because IT can make this easy to do, it attracts that type of person.

  Absolutely, 100% agree. But IT I think has loads more opportunity for this... much because IT has access to things and because IT is too confusing for most businesses to oversee and they just hope for the best, which makes a market ripe to be taken advantage of and attracts people interested in taking advantage of it.

  It really is with jobs that give a lot of power, law enforcement, politicians, government bureaucrats, and now IT will attract bad people because of the power that is inherit in the position. I was a prison guard for the state of Missouri, I was the evening shift supervisor of the supermax unit at the prison I worked at. I saw it with officers who come in fresh and drunk on their power. I got some of them fired because they were going to get people hurt.

  You did what is right in that situation. I'd like to think that all of us here would report issues like this to the powers that be. Whether somebody drunk on their power, or just making bad business decisions.

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  Can cyber security and IT have the same reports?
  • IRJ

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  @IRJ said in Can cyber security and IT have the same reports?:

  @scottalanmiller said in Can cyber security and IT have the same reports?:

  In my experience there is a mix. IT is cyber security to the users, and security is security to IT. Two different C levels.

  Does that make sense?

  I think you misunderstood.

  Should the departments be separated? Should the CISO be a part of IT or compliance?

  By definition, I feel, a CISO cannot be under another CxO except for the CEO.

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  Separating IT from the Bench
  • scottalanmiller

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  @EddieJennings said in Separating IT from the Bench:

  @scottalanmiller That's what I figured. This thread has been food for introspection. Much of what I call my own business acumen is really more common sense and logic. Where I find myself deficient is on the bench side: Having the skills / experience to design an VoIP system around FreePBX (thus my recent learning efforts), configuring that CentOS installation to be a production web server or database, etc.

  Business is mostly common sense and basic knowledge. Anyone that understood their high school training is normally pretty well equipped.

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  Making Business to Candidate Hiring Connections
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  And the GUI guys were the Windows Server Admins, the state file advanced DevOps guys were the desktop ones, no servers.

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  ITIL Foundation Training in Columbia, SC
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  @Breffni-Potter Well, it would have been quite a commute, as the classes were likely held in the Republic of Scameroon....

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  How Do You Evaluate IT Skills for Hiring
  hiring interview interview questions • • scottalanmiller

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  @Carnival-Boy said in How Do You Evaluate IT Skills for Hiring:

  In small firms where there is no in-house IT expertise and they're trying to recruit then employing you makes great sense. How else can they identify if the candidates no anything about IT? But as an IT Manager recruiting and running IT teams, if I had to pay you to identify competent staff over bozos then I'd have question why the hell I'm doing my job. That was the original point I was making.

  I believe all IT people in small shops should question this. I don't see any role for internal IT below very large companies because there is no way to be compensated for your value while providing good value to the firm. Either you get paid more than you are worth to the firm, or less than the job should be worth to you. Or meeting in the middle somewhere.

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  CAPM 4 days Classroom Training in Fargo,ND
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  @IRJ

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  Book suggestions
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  I recently finished reading and recommend "The Anatomy of Peace" from The Arbinger Institute. It's a great comprehensive story driven practice in conflict resolution.

  It's basically "How to recognize if you're an @$$hole, fix it, and learn to communicate with other @$$hole's effectively".

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  Better IT Hiring: Speed Matters from SMB IT Journal
  hiring smbitjournal article scott alan miller • • scottalanmiller

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  Getting Salary Screwed in NJ
  • wirestyle22

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  @scottalanmiller said in Getting Salary Screwed in NJ:

  Forked this over.

  hahahahahahahahaha

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  Taking another cert test on Thursday
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  @IRJ Bonam fortunam!

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  You can't quit, you're fired!!
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  @dafyre said in You can't quit, you're fired!!:

  @scottalanmiller said in You can't quit, you're fired!!:

  @Mike-Davis and they get to find out that he was walked out and fired for having given notice.

  The more they know... Helps them plan better for their own departure.

  Yeah, and to be fair to them, you don't want management able to pretend that you walked out without notice or that you were fired for something that they won't tell them about.

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  Decommissioning Domain Controller (Primary DNS, Transferring FSMO roles)
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  All about FSMO Roles, steps to Transfer FSMO Roles, Seize FSMO Roles, etc.

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  IT is the Opposite of Doctors
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  @BBigford said in IT is the Opposite of Doctors:

  So the lack of care for chance of survival vs. blame are at two different points. One is during the process of dying, the other is after death.

  Just my opinion though.

  I see what you are saying, but as professionals, this isn't related. Doctors have requirements that they must follow and what patients want isn't related to that and totally not part of this discussion.

  This discussion is how IT (like most engineering) is tasked with "greatest average career success" and doctors are tasked with "absolute failure avoidance."

  They are fundamental to both jobs, intrinsic to how they are treated and approached.

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  Anyone using Cybrary?
  cybrary it training certifications • • IRJ

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  In reality, in both relative and absolute terms, "things" are roughly equally likely to cost you as to pay you. Free is simply the middle ground where the two even out. The only really useful argument to make is that nothing is "exactly" free but will likely always either cost or pay a tiny amount. I can accept that. But in useful discussions, free is free.

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  What happens when colleges / Universities close their doors?
  • NerdyDad

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  @NerdyDad said in What happens when colleges / Universities close their doors?:

  However, the concern comes from those that went to other schools that have closed their doors for whatever reasons.

  The long term credibility and stability of the school that you choose are among the top factors that you use to choose where you go to school (and failing to do so is a huge reflection on candidate's decision making capabilities.) And this risk is one of the many factors you must consider when choosing the risky college route to a career. College comes with many, many risks and unless your degree is specifically for a government union job (one where you can only work in the field if the government allows it - basically you "buy" your job from them) you should never associate getting a degree with "furthering your career." That's not the purpose of a degree and again, if a candidate goes to college for that purpose, that decision as well reflects on them.

  When someone chooses to go to college, it's a huge decision and every aspect of it reflects on them and will always reflect on them. So doing it casually is very foolish.

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  The Most Needed Skills in IT
  scott alan miller smbitjournal career it education university college • • scottalanmiller

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  @crustachio said in The Most Needed Skills in IT:

  I enjoyed this section of the article:

  The second big skill needed in IT departments today is an understanding of business – both business in general and the business referring to the specific business of their own organization. As I said at the beginning of this article, IT is a business enabler. If IT professionals do not understand how IT relates to their business they will be poorly positioned to valuate IT needs and make recommendations in the context of the business. Everything that IT does it does for the business, not for technology and not for its own purposes.

  With that in mind, what are some recommendations to improve one's business acumen from an IT perspective?

  Hypothetical scenario: Someone has worked at a small IT shop for years and is a comfortable sysadmin, but is considering an IT administrative position at a much more "corporate" environment. Their role will involve a lot more interfacing with other departments or agencies, as well as driving "big picture" projects and purchasing decisions.

  What resources could they use to improve their understanding of how to fit in in the business realm, and to develop the proper understanding of IT in such an environment? Are there any particularly good books on this subject?

  This is an area where university classes can be really beneficial, if you have access to the right ones. Classes on communications, business, accounting, psychology and such can be huge. There are three main areas that I can think of that really matter:

  Understanding people Understanding communications Understanding business

  And you might add on the more specific "understanding THE business" as well.

  The more that you have any of these, the easier things get. Even if you are a great communicator, if you don't understand the business and its needs at all, you won't have much to communicate.

  I don't know of any specific books around this. Maybe things like Open University or something would have resources.

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  Unsolved Do you implement the Mobile Device Management
  • Joy

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  @Joy said in Do you implement the Mobile Device Management:

  @travisdh1 said in Do you implement the Mobile Device Management:

  @Joy Anti-Virus on mobile devices is mostly not using 3rd party apps or app stores. So if you want to keep your device clean, stick to the Play Store on Android or Apple's app store for Apple devices.

  I'd also say that nothing should be permanently stored on the local device storage, but synced somewhere you can do a proper backup.

  But the end users are also downloading attached files from their contacts.
  Smartphones are just handed to end users once they request after that we don't manage them, they' will just return if the phone is broken .

  Any concern on the data on the device then? Just wipe it and start fresh anytime there is an issue. If the aren't authorized to store anything on the device, not much to have to worry about.