@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
Yeah, I know. Still, training budgets seem like a dream to most IT people that I see.
That's because you focus your IT time on the SMB. Places like here and SW. Specifically SMB forums. So of course you see the non-Fortune 1000 world. But the bulk of IT is in the F1000.
I hope to find an MSP that offers training benefits someday. That'd be heaven for me.
I think, in general, Trend is up there as being equally bad as SEP. Some argue it's worse. Other argue SEP is still worse. But it's lost a ton of the market regardless.
@Joyfano 
Smart lady. Then again, we already knew that. LOL
I literally just got off the phone with a customer wanting to know more about this very issue.
Got an email back! Setting up an interview for most likely Friday! Super excited!
@scottalanmiller And that's my point. At best, in the consumer world, you gain nothing. At worst, in the business world, you lose everything. This feature should not exist. If it does, it should never be used.
@scottalanmiller I know. I figured but was still curious. I don't ass-u-me.
@g.jacobse said:
@coliver said:
What do people classify under accomplishments? I understand things like certifications would go under there. (Which I don't have unfortunately) What else? Significant infrastructure updates? Training's? Conferences attended?
How about for technologies know? What do people generally put under that heading? Specifics like VMware or more general things like Hypervisors?
So far I have the following:
- Name
- Contact information
- Technologies
- Work Experience (reverse chronological order)
- Education
- Personal Experience
What is acceptable for personal experience? Would I put a home lab in there? Or would this be more like things done outside of school/work but still "work".
Yes and no..
Something are 'fluff' when you are talking IT. Server 2003 Admin doesn't need to be listed for every job you do if the last 3 places have had a Windows 2003 server you worked on. List it once.
Same goes with some technologies. An adding machine (poor example) is a adding machine regardless of it being used in 5 jobs. It's a skill like riding a bike (sorta). I can ride a bike,.. Mountain, touring, cross - it's still a bike.
Also I don't think Employer Contact information is needed on a resume. Again, adds fluff. The resume is your sales tool while riding with the guy on an elevator to the 4th floor. To much extra information and they will miss the important things they are looking for.
My resume starts with my contact info and then a categorized list of technologies I know or have worked with to some degree. It's great for triggering key word searches from recruiters, etc.
@Nic fires up Webroot and initializes scan And that should do it!
Seriously, the English language makes even some of the most convoluted environments I've walked into look like Monk's house in comparison as far as rationality and organization...LOL
How I feel when I'm writing a cover letter because it's required...
@Bill-Kindle I don't prep the exact wording. I get an outline together. Inexperienced speakers use powerpoints as scripts but experienced ones as outlines. Drives me nuts when people have essays on powerpoints and read them to me. Sign of inexperience.
@scottalanmiller Ya think?! That's not very nice showing the world your daughter playing in the toilet! 
@scottalanmiller said:
Hard to believe that MSN, Buzzfeed and eBay are that big. I would never have guessed.
MSN is so many peoples' homepage by default on IE that it doesn't surprise me. Buzzfeed doesn't surprise me either. Actually, the one that shocked me most is Yahoo. Seriously, who uses Yahoo anymore?!
My viewpoint on cover letters is that I hate writing generic letters. If you want a cover letter, I want a name to address it to. I've seen jobs say they want cover letters, and I can understand that. But to me, look at my resume and if they really want an explanation or more info, then call me in for an interview. Cover letters feel like a cop out to me. I get the whole "not following directions" bit if it says in the ad that it's required, but if you get one from me, it'll be so generic and useless (really and truly), I'll be including it basically just so you have something. A resume and an interview should be the process.
@scottalanmiller Has? How'd that work? I can see @psx_defector drinking every drink before it gets to you. And that's when he's 3 feet way...:P
@Joyfano I saw there was another used from the Philippines that joined in the past few hours. I'm guessing that was your doing.
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
As the husband of a math teacher - The whole point of showing work is three fold:
1 - you're not cheating
2 - If you make a mistake, the teacher can see where you made it and try to help you
3 - See that you are actually learning/doing a process which becomes more important the further down the road you get.1 - This only helps catch that a little, and cheating really only hurts the cheater. This is like refusing to help someone out of a well with rope because you fear that they will hang themselves. What other class cares about the journey and not the destination? English class doesn't make you "build up sentences" to prove you didn't copy them.
2 - True, but this doesn't explain punishment for not doing it. It's the opposite, in fact.
3 - I don't buy this one. If you can do the work with fewer steps and find it intuitive you are in better shape. Showing rudimentary work once the problems are trivial makes no sense unless your goal is so slow people down because they are too far ahead.
I agree with Scott. Being forced to show work on problems I could easily do in my head and get right 99 times out of 100 was tedious and frustrating. Also, a lot of teachers looked for specific patterns, and if you didn't follow those patterns, you'd be marked as wrong .