Posts made by IRJ

@Obsolesce said in Azure or 0365?:

@IRJ said in Azure or 0365?:

@WrCombs said in Azure or 0365?:

Currently I'm looking into Azure Fundamentals through Microsoft learn (we're slow in the office at the moment so - Bettering myself.)
@Dashrender suggests looking into 0365 management for SMB
While others (@Obsolesce ) is suggesting Azure is the place to start .

Let's discuss.

I agree with @Dashrender that office 365 is certainly the first place to start. I'd master that and get certified and then move into azure.

You're gonna need both, but office 365 is better for you right now. Because entry level IT jobs will work with office 365 on a daily basis. Azure is better once you get past that entry level IT and have a greater grasp of things.

I think learning the bare basics or fundamentals of the platform it all runs on and is integrated with is a better place to start, then O365 if you want to go that route.

For junior level positions you will not be asked to do anything with Azure. But there is plenty of busy work to do with office 365 for junior techs.

@Obsolesce said in Azure or 0365?:

It doesn't matter where u are at your job. Your job and career are two totally separate things. What do YOU want to do? Do you love email and AD? Is that what you want to deal with? Then sure, steer your career that way.

I disagree with you here, bud. You can't go from hardware grunt to DevOps engineer. You gotta take some steps on between.

@WrCombs said in Azure or 0365?:

Currently I'm looking into Azure Fundamentals through Microsoft learn (we're slow in the office at the moment so - Bettering myself.)
@Dashrender suggests looking into 0365 management for SMB
While others (@Obsolesce ) is suggesting Azure is the place to start .

Let's discuss.

I agree with @Dashrender that office 365 is certainly the first place to start. I'd master that and get certified and then move into azure.

You're gonna need both, but office 365 is better for you right now. Because entry level IT jobs will work with office 365 on a daily basis. Azure is better once you get past that entry level IT and have a greater grasp of things.

@DustinB3403 said in Resume:

@IRJ said in Resume:

@DustinB3403 said in Resume:

Also bullet points should be concise, not full sentences. See the above example. Use the section descriptor to explain the bullet list if you must.

I disagree

Good for you, you've never seen a bullet point list. If you're writing complete sentences as bullet points you're doing something wrong.

Bullets should be strong statements, not just list OS versions

@DustinB3403 said in Resume:

Also bullet points should be concise, not full sentences. See the above example. Use the section descriptor to explain the bullet list if you must.

I disagree

@WrCombs said in Resume:

updated

Do you really want to highlight hardware installation as your main qualification?

@WrCombs said in Resume:

I'm getting ready to apply to a new company with a much better position.

Here is my resume prior to sending this out to them .

could you read through it and tell me what you think before I send this in to the hiring manager?

I dislike using the phrase "personal lab" on the resume. It's great to test things in a lab and talk about that during the interview, but on your resume you should just list it as experience. Then if they ask about it in interviews you can tell them how you did it in your lab.

I also feel like it's scatter brained, and the order makes no sense. Put what you care to show off to your new job first on that list. If you put network devices as your first point, they are going to assume (rightly so) that it's your strongest topic. So you better know it inside and out.

I get the struggle, because companies and politicians will use COVID-19 as an excuse to make drastic decisions, and negatively affect citizens, customers, and employees.

So I'm not too surprised people are using at as an excuse in this way. It's the best excuse to do drastic things that everyone just seems to accept because of COVID-19.

@JasGot said in A LIFE AND FATHER'S ISSUES, NOT TECH:

I kind of felt tricked into clicking the link. Thought I was getting an explanation, not a go fund me page.

Same

@JaredBusch said in Caddy vs. Nginx:

You have to compile yourself if you want to use commercially.

This is not something I will ever want to use because of that.

Yeah that's kinda lame, but not a deal breaker. Nginx has to be compiled for more advanced use cases like WAF or certain HAProxy features.

It's a bit of a bitch, but once you script it. It isn't too bad to do upgrades going forward.

Names are being drawn today (not sure what time). So hurry up and join if you're interested

@scottalanmiller said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

@Jimmy9008 said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

This company however says they do not charge the company but charge the candidate due to the service they provide and managing/promoting the candidate. The cost seems pretty expensive too at just below £1000, which is $1,400 USD.

That's an itty, bitty fraction of the cost that the companies pay. So this means that the math alone doesn't make sense. How could these guys make money. Sure, good headhunters do really, really well. But that's because they place something like 90% of the executive level staff out there. These guys are claiming to only be going after some tiny sliver of a percentage of the market, while doing so at a tiny percentage of the pay? Doesn't add up. If they were legit, they'd hardly make a penny.

Yeah placement fees can be $50k or more easily

@scottalanmiller said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

@Jimmy9008 said in Career Management/Recruiters/Headhunters - potential scam?:

Update information for all Applicant Tracking Systems at senior level upwards

This is where things are fake. ATS do exist, but for the fodder jobs, not the executive and senior ones. You don't track your stars, you know who they are. ATS are for the people sending in resumes. The only ATS for the senior people is in the CEO/CFO/CIO's heads.

Yeah I agree. Once you get to a certain level, you don't deal with ATS at all.

Two more days left to sign up. Names are drawn automatically on Monday.

Companies pay lots of money to recruit good people. There is no way any senior level or high technical level person would ever have trouble finding and interviewing for these roles. They are so many out there. If you have a solid resume and work history you will never have an issue finding a role.

So yeah 100% scam and a really blatant one.

@flaxking said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

Is this open to international participants?

And can we choose a theme?

I think due to logistics we have to exclude international this go around. But maybe we can do that next year if we start in mid November.

@JaredBusch said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

@IRJ said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

@JaredBusch said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

@IRJ said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

modest limit like $20

Elftser has "$25 for him/her" categories. Makes it easyish.

https://www.elfster.com/shop/gift-guides/2/

I can change limit to $25 if that makes more sense

Using one of their built in ranges makes life easier.

Updated to $25

@JaredBusch said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

@IRJ said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

@JaredBusch said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

@IRJ said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

modest limit like $20

Elftser has "$25 for him/her" categories. Makes it easyish.

https://www.elfster.com/shop/gift-guides/2/

I can change limit to $25 if that makes more sense

Using one of their built in ranges makes life easier.

It's also a good idea to make a wishlist so people can see what kind of stuff you like. That makes it easier for everyone and you get stuff you actually like.

I would suggest thinking outside the wishlist a bit, or if you could pick something off of it.

@JaredBusch said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

@IRJ said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?:

modest limit like $20

Elftser has "$25 for him/her" categories. Makes it easyish.

https://www.elfster.com/shop/gift-guides/2/

I can change limit to $25 if that makes more sense