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  Discounted Exam Vouchers
  microsoft comptia certifications exam vouchers • • IRJ

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  The site is constantly updated, so these ones will be removed once expired and new ones (that expire soon) will be added.
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  My Son & College
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  @momurda said in My Son & College: @jaredbusch said in My Son & College: @momurda said in My Son & College: Also, your 17 year old will probably change his mind next week. And then again the week after that. And again this afternoon. This is a bunch of shit. No it isnt. I added a conditional probably at the beginning. The vast majority of people at 17 are clueless about what they want for their future, except for some nebulous 'to get a job' type goal that their parents have foisted on them. Just because you swear and berate people on a forum doesnt make you correct. So who is the pot and who is the kettle?
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  Home Lab Ideas from SAMIT Video
  youtube scott alan miller samit it education home lab • • scottalanmiller

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  Bits and Bytes SAMIT Video
  youtube samit it education computer history computer education • • scottalanmiller

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  A classic. These shows are the best.
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  Why Do Recruiters Never Mention the Location of Work?
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  @momurda said in Why Do Recruiters Never Mention the Location of Work?: They are fake job postings? Do people actually email you job offers every day? Yes, many every day. Yes, many really exists. The one that made me think of this today wrote back and gave me the info them updated their info about me in their system. They apparently have my location recorded from 2007 and were using that as a bad assumption. But that's really problematic because their system records "where I am" and nothing about "where I will consider work."
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  Spot the Fake Job Postings, Labor Day 2017
  it career job hunting fake job name and shame cat fishing cybercoders • • scottalanmiller

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  @travisdh1 Could be Valve with a title like that.
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  Just How Hard is University to Overcome
  • scottalanmiller

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  Gamifying Productivity
  productivity gamification mobile app • • Kelly

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  @scottalanmiller said in Gamifying Productivity: https://habitica.com/ Thanks @scottalanmiller. I forgot the link.
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  Survey of Fake Jobs SAMIT Video
  youtube scott alan miller samit video it career job hunting job posting • • scottalanmiller

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  @momurda said in Survey of Fake Jobs SAMIT Video: Anyway to get it to transcribe these to a document whose text you could put underneath your videos? Gotta find an easy way to pretty it up. But I know how to get it now, so I can work on that.
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  Career guidance Confused
  • RoopanKumar

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  @roopankumar said in Career guidance Confused: @dbeato I need be a System Admin but am going in security so wat can do now So start working on being a System Administrator and secure all the systems as needed. Focus on securing each OS and then go next to application security with each OS, you might also need to touch the network so knowledge of it would be a plus.
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  The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video
  youtube scott alan miller samit job hunting fake job anecdote • • scottalanmiller

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  @bbigford said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: @bbigford said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: Wow. Yeah, amazing the lengths that companies will go through. The fake office in a verified business with the intent of approaching them... I am lost for words on how messed up that is to lure people in as part of the key deliverables & company resume. Shows how much the clients will potentially pay if the recruiters "own" all viable candidates!
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  Resume Help
  resume resume review • • Fredtx

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  updated. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OmIwV1c2_Lr9N_EUxUe_YEpVrhfaF0V_/view?usp=sharing
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  Would you apply for this job?
  • aaronstuder

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  @coliver said in Would you apply for this job?: Looks like they want a generalist. Either they want a decently senior generalist, or more likely three mid-level specialists.
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  IT Project Consultant
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  Just received this spam today, so these people are definitely out there... " My company provides IT PMO and Project Management Consulting services. We have a proven approach to delivering PMO Startup/Improvement, Project Delivery, Project Management Training, and Project Management Software services nationwide. Our dedicated SQUAD of experts can lead your high-priority IT Projects allowing you to focus on the core of your business. We have a successful track record of delivering IT Applications, Infrastructure, eCommerce, and Digital projects using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies. I would like to speak to you about your current / future IT Projects and PMO needs to see if we can help. Are you the person I should speak with? If not, can you please point me into right direction?"
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  Standard recruiting practice?
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  The non-B&S scenarios seem unreasonable... The position was open at the start of the interview, but closed during the interview and they felt bad so considered him for a lower position: but didn't mention that this happened and were going to ignore such a huge thing having happened. Physically possible, but completely unreasonable to assume. They did the interview for the L2, but the non-technical person decided to change the tech level without talking to a tech person. Also not reasonable, and possibly still B&S even if this is what happened. Is there a scenario where someone applies for too senior of a position and could legitimately get offered something more junior? Yes, but it would be discussed, it would be open and honest, and it would happen at a technical level not a recruiter screening. It's insanely unlikely in the real world, but could happen. But it would never happen like this, where it was done by an unqualified person, silently with no one discussing it until called on for it.
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  Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video
  samit it careers job posting • • scottalanmiller

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  @wrx7m said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video: why does anyone waste time posting the job then? Posting the job? Because there is a ton of value is using fake job postings to harvest data about job seekers. Compare it to SPAM email or fake Tinder profiles - they are snares to trap the gullible or to just collect general data. It's essentially free and zero effort to do, but an incredibly powerful tool for collecting data or more. The issue is actually the opposite than you picture. To you it seems like a waste of time. But in reality, it's worth so much money to have fake job postings that it is amazing any real jobs remain at all.
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  Job Hunting is Like Online Dating SAMIT Video
  youtube scott alan miller samit it career job hunting • • scottalanmiller

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  @scottalanmiller said in Job Hunting is Like Online Dating SAMIT Video: I can see a podcast mechanism being very handy. I like podcasts on an old fashioned MP3 player with no Internet myself. I can offer to make the podcast on this.
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  How to Spot Fake Job Postings SAMIT Video
  youtube scott alan miller samit it career job hunting • • scottalanmiller

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  @scottalanmiller said in How to Spot Fake Job Postings SAMIT Video: Youtube Video Fake job postings are sometimes pretty hard to spot. But there are a lot of signs that can help us identify common fake jobs. The truth about this had me gut rolling in the car the other day. Great video.
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  If you don't question me, you don't respect me
  • scottalanmiller

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  Resume Critique
  it career roast me • • dbeato

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  At the highest level, this feels like it could be pretty easily compressed to two pages.
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  First Resume Critique
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  @scottalanmiller said in First Resume Critique: @bbigford said in First Resume Critique: In the end, the degree doesn't fit the title, but the experience does. It exactly fits it. It's a degree for exactly what he is doing. That's where I am confused. I'm saying I consider the experience to be the determining factor, not the degree. I consider the degree to be a bonus, and a study on theory. But the experience is where I place the title; less experience being a junior sysadmin title. The current experience exactly fits, the Master's in IT is just a bonus to me but doesn't automatically qualify a higher position.
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  Resume Critique
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  @coliver said in Resume Critique: @kelly Yes, that section is still a work in progress, it's the current job so still trying to figure out how best to highlight the projects and responsibilities. That's a good suggestion and I'll work on incorporating that in that section. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean you shouldn't put it on your resume. I would include everything. When talking about projects, say what you did not what you participated on. When in an interview, you can talk about what you did but more importantly you get to talk about what you're most interested in. The resume isn't really about what interests you, it's about what you know. Character and interests get displayed in an interview.
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  Resume Critique
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  @flaxking said in Resume Critique: @flaxking said in Resume Critique: I heard somewhere to put your title, then the role that actually applies in brackets beside it But thinking about that now... Is that kind of like calling your previous employer a liar in your resume? Yeah, which is likely not best to do. You want your resume to be clear and concise. It is the one thing that has to sell you out on its own without you there for explanation. It's job is to get your foot in the door, then in an interview you can talk about whatever you need.
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  Hiring a tech for support, based in US
  xenorchestra wfh • • olivier

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  @danp pay range is a bit hard, that will be really variable depending on people applying. And I don't want that our lack of expertise hiring in US, combined with a poor pay range choice, make us miss opportunities. I'll update the work days, but it's pretty standard: M-F, no weekends.
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  Move Linux VM from Windows Host to Linux Host
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  Ya I'd just move to KVM on Ubuntu. it will perform better being a type 1 and you can leverage all of the extras (things like libguestfs, the virt tools, etc).
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  PMP (is too short a title, so I'm adding this text)
  • Kelly

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  @rojoloco said in PMP (is too short a title, so I'm adding this text): The PiMP certification I have is worthwhile, but that's a different animal than PMP... You ANIMAL!
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  Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros
  youtube samit it career it buyer • • scottalanmiller

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  @wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: @scottalanmiller said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: @wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: What if you are both? lol That's a hard aspect of it, there is almost always overlap. Not always, but especially in the SMB there is often quite a bit. Any SMB IT Pro will have to buy regularly. Many buyers do IT work on smaller scales so as not to have to go through the process of buying something simple. Yeah, I am an IT pro that has to buy. At some point, all pros have to buy sometimes. Heck even General Motors buys some of their parts from the outside!
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  How Your Education Influences How Your Perceive Your Current Position SAMIT Video
  youtube samit it education university college it career • • scottalanmiller

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  How Your Education Affects Your Career Perception
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  Career Change
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  Then the question obviously becomes - how do we compare SMB and enterprise to medicine? That's pretty simple. Obviously the SMB might attract "doctor level" IT people. This is basically the equivalent to choosing to be a small town general family doctor. Yeah, the pay is going to be way lower, but you accept that going in because you like the atmosphere or the people or the pace or the variety. Enterprise and "IT location" cities pay the most and are similar to surgeons in major facilities like Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, or Johns Hopkins. Like any profession, there are hot spots and locations that pay better, and ones that pay less. But there are other factors that make those other things desirable. Maybe doing heart surgery all day would be depressing or gross or too much stress. Maybe helping kids stay healthy makes you happier at the end of the day. Money is hardly the end all of a job. There are so many more things that really matter.