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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Working in IT 3.0: Echo goonlord
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Misogynist posted:errno EGOONLORD you forgot to #include <dilbert_as_fuck.h>
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Jan 22, 2015 18:21
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I'm ripping my hair out trying to find a conference call solution where an assistant can schedule a call but not have to call in to the "room". Anyone have any experience with this? I'm also dealing with a manager that's insisting we ALL HAVE SKYPE and nope, I'm not having it.
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Jan 22, 2015 19:29
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LmaoTheKid posted:I'm ripping my hair out trying to find a conference call solution where an assistant can schedule a call but not have to call in to the "room". Tell him to get on your level and use Megachat beta 
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Jan 22, 2015 21:01
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LmaoTheKid posted:I'm ripping my hair out trying to find a conference call solution where an assistant can schedule a call but not have to call in to the "room".
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Jan 22, 2015 21:29
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LmaoTheKid posted:I'm ripping my hair out trying to find a conference call solution where an assistant can schedule a call but not have to call in to the "room". Cisco hosted webex with audio minutes.
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Jan 22, 2015 21:45
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I knew a few of you have but I'd like to get a little more detailed. How many of you have used Resume2Interviews? Is it worth ~$300?
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Jan 22, 2015 21:49
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Misogynist posted:Are you looking for something web-based, or do you need phone call-in support? I need call in support, specifically with local numbers in London and Paris. I think my communications guy got us a lead so hopefully nightmare over.
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Jan 22, 2015 22:00
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Tab8715 posted:I knew a few of you have but I'd like to get a little more detailed. How many of you have used Resume2Interviews? Is it worth ~$300? I feel weird in that I'm the only person I know that had absolutely 0 problems writing the meat of a resume. I suck at cover letters though. Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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Jan 22, 2015 22:03
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Rhymenoserous posted:I feel weird in that I'm the only person I know that had absolutely 0 problems writing the meat of a resume. Eh, I have one but I'm not a writer. I am somewhat more interested in Cover Letters and their mock interviews. Sometimes my responses are a little autistic and too modest.
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Jan 22, 2015 22:05
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Tab8715 posted:I knew a few of you have but I'd like to get a little more detailed. How many of you have used Resume2Interviews? Is it worth ~$300? Writing resumes is not hard. Put yours up somewhere and I'm happy to look at it
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Jan 22, 2015 22:26
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Tab8715 posted:Eh, I used them and I like them. I'm continuing to use the template they provided. My current boss told me that it stood out and made the initial selection for choosing who to interview very easy and mine was picked right away based on presentation alone.
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Jan 22, 2015 22:27
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Tab8715 posted:I knew a few of you have but I'd like to get a little more detailed. How many of you have used Resume2Interviews? Is it worth ~$300?
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Jan 22, 2015 22:31
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vibur posted:I used them and could not have been happier with the finished product. I did not use their cover letters or mock interviews, though. Same. I spent closer to $100 if I recall correctly, and I think it was worth it. I'm still hot garbage at cover letters, too, though.
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Jan 22, 2015 22:34
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Wait if you can now copy and paste in powershell/cmd prompt, how do you cancel running commands? Ctrl + C usually works. Haven't tried in Windows 10.
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Jan 22, 2015 22:59
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Kerpal posted:Wait if you can now copy and paste in powershell/cmd prompt, how do you cancel running commands? Ctrl + C usually works. Haven't tried in Windows 10. If you don't have anything highlighted, it sends the break command in Powershell. I assume the prompt works the same way.
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Jan 22, 2015 22:59
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Kerpal posted:Wait if you can now copy and paste in powershell/cmd prompt, how do you cancel running commands? Ctrl + C usually works. Haven't tried in Windows 10. Yeah, it's the same, I just tested. Ctrl+C still breaks any commands if you don't have anything highlighted.
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Jan 22, 2015 23:05
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Kerpal posted:Wait if you can now copy and paste in powershell/cmd prompt, how do you cancel running commands? Ctrl + C usually works. Haven't tried in Windows 10. It hopefully also does implicit copy on highlight
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Jan 22, 2015 23:10
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I used them and I like them. I'm continuing to use the template they provided. My current boss told me that it stood out and made the initial selection for choosing who to interview very easy and mine was picked right away based on presentation alone. I had a similar experience with mine, and was interviewing for a Jr Systems Administrator position. Same resume plus a few bullet points got me an interview for a Network Engineer position about 9 months later. Definitely get the ball rolling on it ASAP, though, or get ready to spend extra for the expedited response time. I think it took me like 3 weeks to get the final draft, and then another 2-3 days for them to OK the final draft and return it to me in a finished format.
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Jan 22, 2015 23:36
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evol262 posted:It hopefully also does implicit copy on highlight Just tested that as well, and yep. If you highlight EDIT: and hit enter, it copies. Japanese Dating Sim fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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Jan 23, 2015 00:05
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Bhodi posted:Yeah, there is. It might be in a new version, or at least newer than I've got. I actually interviewed at VMWare and it was pretty interesting to hear the amount of friction between the group responsible for the web interface and the rest of the company (and world) - they got a LOT of flak for what they tried to get people to move to and it made waves pretty high up the chain. They were pretty frank about it too, it's all a big joke even if they can't say it publicly (I can, I never signed poo poo!) Yeah, because it was a gigantic steaming pile of poo poo, and still is. I don't disagree with the motive and ideas - accessing the client from anywhere without a 500 MB app download/install (especially one that has to be reinstalled for every point update) is an excellent goal. But Flash is not good enough, and HTML 5 was a pipe dream at the time they started making the client. I don't care if I can access the client from anywhere if the client sucks and is vastly slower than what it replaced. And to be honest we were 100% VMware on our clients and that was basically the push to start moving people to VMware if they didn't have large VM environments. (That plus the absolutely asinine small matter of VMware forgetting that people who use ESXi Free do not have VCenter, and consequently do not have the web client, and thus cannot manage their hosts, especially once they upgraded the VM hardware to version 10 and didn't release a version of the C# client that could manage those VMs. Oh what's that VMware? I've faithfully upgraded ESXi and my VM hardware versions and now I can't do jack poo poo with my VMs and you expect my 5 person client to drop 600 smackers for VSphere Essentials? How about you get hosed).
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Jan 23, 2015 02:07
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Potato Alley posted:Yeah, because it was a gigantic steaming pile of poo poo, and still is. I don't disagree with the motive and ideas - accessing the client from anywhere without a 500 MB app download/install (especially one that has to be reinstalled for every point update) is an excellent goal. But Flash is not good enough, and HTML 5 was a pipe dream at the time they started making the client. I don't care if I can access the client from anywhere if the client sucks and is vastly slower than what it replaced. And to be honest we were 100% VMware on our clients and that was basically the push to start moving people to VMware if they didn't have large VM environments. (That plus the absolutely asinine small matter of VMware forgetting that people who use ESXi Free do not have VCenter, and consequently do not have the web client, and thus cannot manage their hosts, especially once they upgraded the VM hardware to version 10 and didn't release a version of the C# client that could manage those VMs. Oh what's that VMware? I've faithfully upgraded ESXi and my VM hardware versions and now I can't do jack poo poo with my VMs and you expect my 5 person client to drop 600 smackers for VSphere Essentials? How about you get hosed). IIRC, there's also a hidden web client on ESXi which can be used. Why VMware didn't use SPICE is beyond me. NoVNC is also perfectly acceptable, and it was stable/usable by the time they pushed the web client on people. But VMware is in the business of making money. They don't care about your 5 person client who can't pay for Essentials. Those people should look at oVirt or XenServer/XCP/XenOrchestra
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Jan 23, 2015 02:21
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evol262 posted:IIRC, there's also a hidden web client on ESXi which can be used. You'll never get vendor lock in that way. Why have the free version at all if its unusable as released?
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Jan 23, 2015 02:43
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thebigcow posted:You'll never get vendor lock in that way. Why have the free version at all if its unusable as released? VMware is well past the point of needing a free version to get customers locked in to their ecosystem. They are Porsche, not Kia, they don't need a loss leader. It's also not unusable, it's just not usable for any advanced features and they did fix the issue with being unable to edit version 10 VMs eventually. But mostly they just don't care because they assume that anyone who is running the free version is doing it in a lab and will deal with it. If you're running your business on free software with no support then you have only yourself to blame for any problems you run into.
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Jan 23, 2015 02:58
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Potato Alley posted:Yeah, because it was a gigantic steaming pile of poo poo, and still is. I don't disagree with the motive and ideas - accessing the client from anywhere without a 500 MB app download/install (especially one that has to be reinstalled for every point update) is an excellent goal. But Flash is not good enough, and HTML 5 was a pipe dream at the time they started making the client. I don't care if I can access the client from anywhere if the client sucks and is vastly slower than what it replaced. And to be honest we were 100% VMware on our clients and that was basically the push to start moving people to VMware if they didn't have large VM environments. (That plus the absolutely asinine small matter of VMware forgetting that people who use ESXi Free do not have VCenter, and consequently do not have the web client, and thus cannot manage their hosts, especially once they upgraded the VM hardware to version 10 and didn't release a version of the C# client that could manage those VMs. Oh what's that VMware? I've faithfully upgraded ESXi and my VM hardware versions and now I can't do jack poo poo with my VMs and you expect my 5 person client to drop 600 smackers for VSphere Essentials? How about you get hosed). Just turn on the ssh server and use the CLI. HTFU and get on my greybeard level.
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Jan 23, 2015 03:04
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I have an interview on Tuesday for a post-sales deployment role with a VAR. Lotta ASA (lol), sourcefire, PA, and Cisco ISE and wireless type poo poo; so basically things I've worked with before. My current position is kind of meh, and the RFP for our current contract still hasn't dropped. Additionally, I'm loving tired of operations (for now) and I've been kind of siloed into a role that I'm worried will hurt my career prospects by becoming too focused (I know you sysadmin types get off on being specialists, but network/security engineers need to maintain a broad skillset). Biggest thing I'm worried about is quality of life. I'm very much a fan of rigid work hours, but obviously when you're on 1-2 month assignments at multiple client sites, the whole 8-4:30 bit goes out the window quickly. I'm fine with that, because 1) they'll be paying me a lot more and 2) I feel the fact that I'll constantly be doing something different will keep me interested. That being said, I'm not too interested in working 60-80 hour workweeks (need my girlfriend, gym, and CS:GO time) and I'm wondering what the experience of you guys who do work for VARs has been.
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Jan 23, 2015 03:24
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Jan 23, 2015 03:26
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Psydude you are wasted in post-sales. You've got the skills to get a way cushier position than that. Your job is to either deliver on the stupid promises sales guys sold the customer or tell them what they bought isn't going to do what was promised. I honestly can't imagine why you'd willingly put yourself into that position.
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Jan 23, 2015 04:40
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This might be a long shot but since I know we have a lot of health care IT folks, I figured I'd ask: Does anyone have experience using Medical Logic Modules or Arden Syntax?
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Jan 23, 2015 04:52
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Hughmoris posted:This might be a long shot but since I know we have a lot of health care IT folks, I figured I'd ask: Does anyone have experience using Medical Logic Modules or Arden Syntax? I did, albeit briefly. Didn't care much for it.
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Jan 23, 2015 05:24
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psydude posted:I have an interview on Tuesday for a post-sales deployment role with a VAR. Lotta ASA (lol), sourcefire, PA, and Cisco ISE and wireless type poo poo; so basically things I've worked with before. My current position is kind of meh, and the RFP for our current contract still hasn't dropped. Additionally, I'm loving tired of operations (for now) and I've been kind of siloed into a role that I'm worried will hurt my career prospects by becoming too focused (I know you sysadmin types get off on being specialists, but network/security engineers need to maintain a broad skillset). We don't get off on being specialists. But being a network engineer is about as specialized as being a Windows admin. Don't get siloed, but post-sales is gonna end up with you doing the same thing over and over again, and probably wanting to murder the sales guys who promised poo poo that's almost impossible to deliver. You're a smart guy, and don't you have military experience? And a clearance? You can do better PCjr sidecar posted:Just turn on the ssh server and use the CLI. HTFU and get on my greybeard level. Let me know how to turn on RDP from a VMX so I don't need the console, pls.
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Jan 23, 2015 05:31
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psydude posted:I have an interview on Tuesday for a post-sales deployment role with a VAR. Lotta ASA (lol), sourcefire, PA, and Cisco ISE and wireless type poo poo; so basically things I've worked with before. My current position is kind of meh, and the RFP for our current contract still hasn't dropped. Additionally, I'm loving tired of operations (for now) and I've been kind of siloed into a role that I'm worried will hurt my career prospects by becoming too focused (I know you sysadmin types get off on being specialists, but network/security engineers need to maintain a broad skillset). This is all highly dependent on the company. I've done post-sales for both a vendor and a VAR and in both cases I worked less total hours at each than I did when I was in operations. Generally the bill rate for outside-of-business-hours is higher so customers don't want to pay if they don't have to. So weekend and late night work isn't that common, and often how much time you're on-site with a customer is directly related to how good you are at your job. You'll usually be scoped for an extra couple of days in case something goes wrong, but in the instances where it doesn't you'll likely finish up early and have a couple of easy days on site, or just fly out early and get an extra day or two off. The biggest factor for me affecting quality of life is travel. If you've got to spend a bunch of time in an airport every week that's a real drag, so find out what the travel percentage will be. Since you're in the NOVA area, I believe, you'll likely have plenty of local work so that may not be a problem at all. I think as a general concept moving to the reseller side is a good career move. It opens the door to tons of connections with a broad range of clients and vendors that can turn into even better jobs in the future, and the experience you get working with different customers means you see a lot broader set of issues and problems than you would working in corporate IT. Obviously this is all pretty dependent on the company. I'd suggest asking to speak to one of their post-sales engineers and just ask him what his normal work month looks like, what he likes, what he doesn't, and see if it sounds like a good fit for you. evol262 posted:We don't get off on being specialists. But being a network engineer is about as specialized as being a Windows admin. Don't get siloed, but post-sales is gonna end up with you doing the same thing over and over again, and probably wanting to murder the sales guys who promised poo poo that's almost impossible to deliver. This is a pretty broad generalization. Some post-sales job are garbage and some are fine. Since it's a reseller they will likely have a decent sized line card so if he's good they'll have him doing a nice variety of work. Our network guys might be replacing the routing core for a stage agency one week, configuring layer-2 adjacency over WAN for a stretched VMware cluster on UCS the next, and setting up F5 application load balancing the following. The reseller side can also be pretty lucrative and get you access to a lot of equipment that you wouldn't otherwise get to touch. We've got a lab full of gear that our partners provide so that we can sell their hardware better, and having that sort of risk free environment to learn on is really great for professional development. Not to mention getting access to a lot of the roadmap information and under the covers technical detail that comes from being a partner.
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Jan 23, 2015 05:51
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NippleFloss posted:This is a pretty broad generalization. Some post-sales job are garbage and some are fine. Since it's a reseller they will likely have a decent sized line card so if he's good they'll have him doing a nice variety of work. Our network guys might be replacing the routing core for a stage agency one week, configuring layer-2 adjacency over WAN for a stretched VMware cluster on UCS the next, and setting up F5 application load balancing the following. The reseller side can also be pretty lucrative and get you access to a lot of equipment that you wouldn't otherwise get to touch. We've got a lab full of gear that our partners provide so that we can sell their hardware better, and having that sort of risk free environment to learn on is really great for professional development. Not to mention getting access to a lot of the roadmap information and under the covers technical detail that comes from being a partner. That's fair, and I totally discounted this aspect of it somehow. We're obviously not a reseller of any kind, but our labs are pretty incredible, and being able to directly communicate with engineers from SAP or Netapp or when something's not working quite right is incredible. Without knowing who the interview's with, it's hard to say what it's gonna be like, and even our post-sales guys have an incredible amount of job diversity. I just wonder from seeing the opposite end (IBM post-sales guys who do nothing but Clearcase installs day in and day out, etc).
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Jan 23, 2015 06:04
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Tab8715 posted:I knew a few of you have but I'd like to get a little more detailed. How many of you have used Resume2Interviews? Is it worth ~$300? I've used the resume and interview prep. when I start looking for the next job, I'll use it again. I've also paid the "update" fee after being at this job for six months so I could have help updating my resume so it stays a bit more up to date. The resume by itself will not guarantee you a job or an interview. That said, I would do it again in a heartbeat. It helped me articulate my strengths and my professional rear end kicking in a way that I leveraged to get into a more technical position and out of business analyst hell. UNRELATED = pissing me off == corporate restructuring. Just let me know if I can keep my boss already. We will hear something in February is too much waiting and I need slow, controlled, expected change if there will be change. But I want to keep my boss. 
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Jan 23, 2015 06:25
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The resume service is good. Do not pay for the cover letter or linked in help, neither were useful at all. I will use their resume people again when it's time to update.
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Jan 23, 2015 12:58
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I found their resume service to be great. I'll probably use it again in another few months just to keep everything up to date. Thanks for the insight. I'm definitely going to look hard at the culture and the quality of life aspect. The higher pay would obviously be nice, but I'm comfortable enough with what I make right now that I'm more worried about whether I'd actually like working there. I'm also going to try to get a sense, like Bhodi said, as to whether or not the sales people are difficult to work with. evol262 posted:I just wonder from seeing the opposite end (IBM post-sales guys who do nothing but Clearcase installs day in and day out, etc). That seems to be more typical of vendors than resellers.
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I'm always happy to look at resumes and give an opinion. I'm not a resume writer per se, but I see dozens per day and I have the advantage of seeing what drives interviews and what doesn't.
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Jan 23, 2015 16:29
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Dark Helmut posted:I'm always happy to look at resumes and give an opinion. I'm not a resume writer per se, but I see dozens per day and I have the advantage of seeing what drives interviews and what doesn't. Mind if I shoot you mine over the weekend? Not looking for any specific critique per se, but more a general "Yep, that's a solidly ok CV"
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Jan 23, 2015 17:03
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Dark Helmut posted:I'm always happy to look at resumes and give an opinion. I'm not a resume writer per se, but I see dozens per day and I have the advantage of seeing what drives interviews and what doesn't. I've updated mine since you checked it over last year, Fiendish Dr. Wu fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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Jan 23, 2015 17:15
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Dark Helmut posted:I'm always happy to look at resumes and give an opinion. I'm not a resume writer per se, but I see dozens per day and I have the advantage of seeing what drives interviews and what doesn't. I feel like you might regret this given that I'm also interested in this, even though I'm happy where I am and think I will be for some time. Alternatively, this is a clever plan for you to get a bunch of resumes and be like "Your resume looks great! Also, I have a position you might be interested in..." 
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Jan 23, 2015 17:26
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