OrcaAlso known as EspressosaurusWrexRegistered Userregular
I bring copies of my resume, and I'm not sure if I've ever needed it, but I'll scribble notes down on it. Sometimes I bring the paper and a pen to scribble notes down too.
I think I may have accidentally found out I'll be getting a promotion before the end of the fiscal year (before October) which would be 10% and the 2.5% COLA (12.75% total)
I bring all that stuff to interviews so I can feel comfortable that nothing will be missing if I need it, but I can’t imagine I would even notice whether a candidate I was interviewing happened to have them.
If you're interviewing for an ER or paramedic position don't ever bring a note pad. You want to look like you fit in, so instead write all your notes on a dirty glove, then accidentally throw that glove into the trash. When you need the notes dig it out of the trash and read if front of the panel. They will be impressed.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Man, I've never had a job interview where my resume was a factor. I got my first library job ten years ago, and all my career progress since then has been via internal promotions.
When I was trying to break into the library world, I might as well have just handed around fortune cookie slips with the date I earned my gatekeeping professional degree. Nobody cared about my retail jobs or freelancing side hustles, and maybe the fact that I graduated in 2008 would earn me some pity points.
The only thing I bring with me to interviews is my jelqing rig, so I can elucidate my interviewer on the one true path to growth.
"Where do I see myself in five years? Well, as you can see from this chart..."
aaaand now that's in my google search history, thanks. 🙄
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
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one time I was at a walk-in job interview and they asked me what kind of things I take a moral stand with and how I feel about like, derogatory language and stuff
and I was like "oh this is a pretty good question" and I answered genuinely and at the end of the interview he told me I wouldn't be getting hired and I was like "that's cool."
my friend DID get hired and quit because the boss was incredibly racist and sexist and cruel and I was like "oh they didn't want to see if I was a 'good' person they wanted to make sure I'd be okay with their toxicity."
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
they were having walk-in interviews because the boss/owner was such a tremendous shitbag that the turnover rate beat out McDonald's and he needed fresh meat
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
If you're interviewing for an ER or paramedic position don't ever bring a note pad. You want to look like you fit in, so instead write all your notes on a dirty glove, then accidentally throw that glove into the trash. When you need the notes dig it out of the trash and read if front of the panel. They will be impressed.
If you need to wear a suit to an interview and don't own one, why not kill two birds with one stone by making a suit out of copies of your resume. This will demonstrate preparedness, resourcefulness, and a high pain tolerance for paper cuts.
I'll sweat through that just like a regular suit. The results will be substantially less legal.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Then use tabloid, jeez, I can't believe we have to hold your hand through all of this.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyyu don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
I am currently trying to transition into this myself. Though its specifically for Security stuff so I'm looking at the CISSP after getting my Security+ and CCNA Net Ops certs.
Its weird because no one in my department, even my former boss or his boss, have any certs and simply by getting those I can improve my chances at a promotion.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyyu don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
I'd love to get into something more ITish? I've read that geek squad time looks good to help desk type positions, but so far haven't had any success. But I haven't been going at it too long so far so I'm not beating myself up yet.
And doing so half-heartedly since any time without medical benefits is just not possible. And changing schedules is bad.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyyu don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
I am currently trying to transition into this myself. Though its specifically for Security stuff so I'm looking at the CISSP after getting my Security+ and CCNA Net Ops certs.
Its weird because no one in my department, even my former boss or his boss, have any certs and simply by getting those I can improve my chances at a promotion.
I work in security, kind of. It's like, amped up help desk that works strictly with AWS Security services. Anyway, I've got my Sec+ (and also CySA+) so please feel free to DM me any time if you have any questions about them. I'd love to get CCNA Net Ops in the future.
One thing to note with the CISSP is while it is a very well regarded certification and you can study for, take, and pass the CISSP at any time, you are not allowed to put it your resume or anything according to the governing body for that exam (ISC2) until you have 5 years of work experience. Or 4 years + a college degree or one of a variety of security certs (including Sec+). But no matter how many certs and degrees you have, 4 years of security work experience is the minimum. Until you hit that work experience, if you have passed the exam you can only put that you a an "Associate of ISC2" on a resume. If you are looking at breaking into the security field, you may consider getting the SSCP which is also by ISC2. It requires 1 year of security work experience or a CS related/adjacent degree to get the cert and not just be an associate. (But hey, you might already have the years of experience in which case go for the CISSP for sure!)
ISC2 is a bit annoying as, now that I have the SSCP I have to pay a yearly fee and earn CPEs but, their certs do carry a lot of clout so, it's the game we gotta play. But yeah, please feel free to pick my brain about cert stuff any time! I have way too many (like... 12? WGU made me get a lot to graduate.)
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyyu don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
I'd love to get into something more ITish? I've read that geek squad time looks good to help desk type positions, but so far haven't had any success. But I haven't been going at it too long so far so I'm not beating myself up yet.
And doing so half-heartedly since any time without medical benefits is just not possible. And changing schedules is bad.
Ugh... Work sucks.
Oh hey, just saw your post too! Please feel free to DM me or ask me in the thread questions any time about getting into more ITish stuff. There are some great free/cheap resources you can start chipping away at, even if it's like like 15-30 minutes a day, depending on what you are interested in.
I'm not super familiar with the particulars of geek squad, but, all I know is that getting my foot in at a frankly pretty slipshod IT help desk job opened a lot of doors to me, because future employers just saw "two years of IT experience" not "two years of IT experience at a place that was held together by duct tape, prayers and human misery"
I really hate how they are trying to inspire people to work harder than they do with statements of "they are paying you more work harder they expect it"
It is a total shit show at work since they started to pay us more as they let fester a lackadaisical attitude and now are using vague threats to encourage people to step up their game
I really hate how they are trying to inspire people to work harder than they do with statements of "they are paying you more work harder they expect it"
It is a total shit show at work since they started to pay us more as they let fester a lackadaisical attitude and now are using vague threats to encourage people to step up their game
You're already providing them with more labor than you are being fairly compensated for, so I'm not sure what your complaint is about, specifically.
I really hate how they are trying to inspire people to work harder than they do with statements of "they are paying you more work harder they expect it"
It is a total shit show at work since they started to pay us more as they let fester a lackadaisical attitude and now are using vague threats to encourage people to step up their game
You're already providing them with more labor than you are being fairly compensated for, so I'm not sure what your complaint is about, specifically.
It's their vain attempts to encourage other people to work harder
For me bringing a resume copy is more about insurance/perk.
Like, yeah a good hiring manager (what are thooooose) won't ding you for not having a copy.
But if they screwed up or forgot or whatever and don't have a copy, and you whip it out and slap it on the table (giggity) that's the kind of psychological bs that gets people hired, because it sticks out.
It's like the job interview equivalent of negging.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyyu don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
I'd love to get into something more ITish? I've read that geek squad time looks good to help desk type positions, but so far haven't had any success. But I haven't been going at it too long so far so I'm not beating myself up yet.
And doing so half-heartedly since any time without medical benefits is just not possible. And changing schedules is bad.
Ugh... Work sucks.
Oh hey, just saw your post too! Please feel free to DM me or ask me in the thread questions any time about getting into more ITish stuff. There are some great free/cheap resources you can start chipping away at, even if it's like like 15-30 minutes a day, depending on what you are interested in.
I'm not super familiar with the particulars of geek squad, but, all I know is that getting my foot in at a frankly pretty slipshod IT help desk job opened a lot of doors to me, because future employers just saw "two years of IT experience" not "two years of IT experience at a place that was held together by duct tape, prayers and human misery"
I'm an in home agent, so I go to people's homes to build basic networks, fix computers (software mostly, no soldering), mount TVs, install stereo systems.. I wear a bunch of hats. But I see the direction the company is moving and how they're wanting to practically turn us into gig workers and I want no part of it.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
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Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
I'm looking to move into the category where I have a selection of brandies in decanters and need to take very long lunches at very fancy places
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
Excuse me
Scrum master is a real term people use in professional settings without giggling?
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
Excuse me
Scrum master is a real term people use in professional settings without giggling?
That's the litmus test for if you've drunk the koolaid.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
Excuse me
Scrum master is a real term people use in professional settings without giggling?
That's the litmus test for if you've drunk the koolaid.
One of my wife’s closest friends is a scrum master.
I laughed when he told me and he has apparently been pissed at me since then. That was over a year ago.
I thought that even if you work with it you understand that it’s a very funny title.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
Excuse me
Scrum master is a real term people use in professional settings without giggling?
That's the litmus test for if you've drunk the koolaid.
One of my wife’s closest friends is a scrum master.
I laughed when he told me and he has apparently been pissed at me since then. That was over a year ago.
I thought that even if you work with it you understand that it’s a very funny title.
I think there's some folks with some insecurities about it since it's uh... not a strictly necessary component of a good agile practice and they can be entirely useless if there's already a good technical product manager on the team. I have worked with only a few SMs and every time it's been like... we should be spending this money on another developer.
Talked to my friend about him transitioning into IT.
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
Excuse me
Scrum master is a real term people use in professional settings without giggling?
That's the litmus test for if you've drunk the koolaid.
One of my wife’s closest friends is a scrum master.
I laughed when he told me and he has apparently been pissed at me since then. That was over a year ago.
I thought that even if you work with it you understand that it’s a very funny title.
I think there's some folks with some insecurities about it since it's uh... not a strictly necessary component of a good agile practice and they can be entirely useless if there's already a good technical product manager on the team. I have worked with only a few SMs and every time it's been like... we should be spending this money on another developer.
I like to call them the scrumhalf instead, then introduce more rugby terms over time. "Okay, this ruck we've got several knock-ons. Let's form a maul to get this try touched down, then we can find a hooker."
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When I was trying to break into the library world, I might as well have just handed around fortune cookie slips with the date I earned my gatekeeping professional degree. Nobody cared about my retail jobs or freelancing side hustles, and maybe the fact that I graduated in 2008 would earn me some pity points.
"Where do I see myself in five years? Well, as you can see from this chart..."
aaaand now that's in my google search history, thanks. 🙄
and I was like "oh this is a pretty good question" and I answered genuinely and at the end of the interview he told me I wouldn't be getting hired and I was like "that's cool."
my friend DID get hired and quit because the boss was incredibly racist and sexist and cruel and I was like "oh they didn't want to see if I was a 'good' person they wanted to make sure I'd be okay with their toxicity."
Listen, I don't need this sort of moralistic hand-wringing about what things I wring in the privacy of my own home.
I feel so seen
The hand-wringing was never the problem.
I'll sweat through that just like a regular suit. The results will be substantially less legal.
How can you not believe that, what with all the jelqing?
He didn’t have a super solid gameplan other than get an A+ cert and try to get his foot in the door somewhere. I gave him pointers and a book for that.
He has management experience and I asked if he was interesting in doing management in the tech sector. And he seemed keen on that.
I have less experience in that area though as like, I reallllyyy don’t want to manage people. Any folks here experienced what there is on that front?
I know there is like, Project+, ITIL, CAPM and then like, Agile/Scrum certs. But I don’t really know how much weight if any these things carry.
I am currently trying to transition into this myself. Though its specifically for Security stuff so I'm looking at the CISSP after getting my Security+ and CCNA Net Ops certs.
Its weird because no one in my department, even my former boss or his boss, have any certs and simply by getting those I can improve my chances at a promotion.
I'd love to get into something more ITish? I've read that geek squad time looks good to help desk type positions, but so far haven't had any success. But I haven't been going at it too long so far so I'm not beating myself up yet.
And doing so half-heartedly since any time without medical benefits is just not possible. And changing schedules is bad.
Ugh... Work sucks.
I work in security, kind of. It's like, amped up help desk that works strictly with AWS Security services. Anyway, I've got my Sec+ (and also CySA+) so please feel free to DM me any time if you have any questions about them. I'd love to get CCNA Net Ops in the future.
One thing to note with the CISSP is while it is a very well regarded certification and you can study for, take, and pass the CISSP at any time, you are not allowed to put it your resume or anything according to the governing body for that exam (ISC2) until you have 5 years of work experience. Or 4 years + a college degree or one of a variety of security certs (including Sec+). But no matter how many certs and degrees you have, 4 years of security work experience is the minimum. Until you hit that work experience, if you have passed the exam you can only put that you a an "Associate of ISC2" on a resume. If you are looking at breaking into the security field, you may consider getting the SSCP which is also by ISC2. It requires 1 year of security work experience or a CS related/adjacent degree to get the cert and not just be an associate. (But hey, you might already have the years of experience in which case go for the CISSP for sure!)
ISC2 is a bit annoying as, now that I have the SSCP I have to pay a yearly fee and earn CPEs but, their certs do carry a lot of clout so, it's the game we gotta play. But yeah, please feel free to pick my brain about cert stuff any time! I have way too many (like... 12? WGU made me get a lot to graduate.)
Oh hey, just saw your post too! Please feel free to DM me or ask me in the thread questions any time about getting into more ITish stuff. There are some great free/cheap resources you can start chipping away at, even if it's like like 15-30 minutes a day, depending on what you are interested in.
I'm not super familiar with the particulars of geek squad, but, all I know is that getting my foot in at a frankly pretty slipshod IT help desk job opened a lot of doors to me, because future employers just saw "two years of IT experience" not "two years of IT experience at a place that was held together by duct tape, prayers and human misery"
It is a total shit show at work since they started to pay us more as they let fester a lackadaisical attitude and now are using vague threats to encourage people to step up their game
You're already providing them with more labor than you are being fairly compensated for, so I'm not sure what your complaint is about, specifically.
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It's their vain attempts to encourage other people to work harder
Like, yeah a good hiring manager (what are thooooose) won't ding you for not having a copy.
But if they screwed up or forgot or whatever and don't have a copy, and you whip it out and slap it on the table (giggity) that's the kind of psychological bs that gets people hired, because it sticks out.
It's like the job interview equivalent of negging.
I'm an in home agent, so I go to people's homes to build basic networks, fix computers (software mostly, no soldering), mount TVs, install stereo systems.. I wear a bunch of hats. But I see the direction the company is moving and how they're wanting to practically turn us into gig workers and I want no part of it.
The position I was applying for was Senior Memory Specialist.
I'll never forget the look they gave me.
Sure, your ISP will still know, but it won't be on your computer.
But that is mostly because I need something in my hands to curb the anxiety and bringing knitting isn't usually looked well upon.
Yet another bonus of working from home. I can knit in meetings.
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"Management" breaks out into a few categories:
1. Project management/scrum mastering - PMs are ubiquitous in waterfall shops and still often found in agile orgs in more program management capacity. PM is CAPM or, even better PMP. Best for people who LOVE organizing (like, I have a Gantt chart for vacation level). Scrum Master is the agile implementation, which in practice is a lot more cat herding and quantitative analysis of workflow. CSM is useful, but note it's still a work in progress at the industry level in terms of job role.
2. Technical management - as a non dev, not a good fit as ideally it's a former dev that loves mentoring.
3. Incident management - a specialized role in large companies for managing major technical incidents(outages etc.). If your buddy is calm in the face of chaos and stress, it could be good.
Also help desk management and other roles, but many are limited to internal candidates due to culture/niche fit
I'm looking to move into the category where I have a selection of brandies in decanters and need to take very long lunches at very fancy places
Excuse me
Scrum master is a real term people use in professional settings without giggling?
That's the litmus test for if you've drunk the koolaid.
One of my wife’s closest friends is a scrum master.
I laughed when he told me and he has apparently been pissed at me since then. That was over a year ago.
I thought that even if you work with it you understand that it’s a very funny title.
I've been trying to get my wife to master my scrum without success.
I think there's some folks with some insecurities about it since it's uh... not a strictly necessary component of a good agile practice and they can be entirely useless if there's already a good technical product manager on the team. I have worked with only a few SMs and every time it's been like... we should be spending this money on another developer.
Video of a scrum master being interviewed: