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22 Eargesplitten posted:Sadly, no. Not at 5 years experience and no experience as a network admin. Always apply. Apply anyway. 20% of a job's requirements are all you really need unless it's WEIRDLY specific.
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My title is IT Consultant and it makes me sound important. (I'm really a computer janitor  )
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 Number ending 115 seems to belong to same company. As you can see I did speak with the chap couple times but it smells. Heavy indian accent, doesn't understand that "my_rate€ per day + expenses + taxes" is not negotiable and offers about 1/4 of that per day including everything. Guessing he's desperate and about to get fired or its a scam of some kind.
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DigitalMocking posted:Always apply. That hasn't been my experience sadly  . Maybe it's just the CO market, the CO market seems to work counter to what a lot of people say. I guess I can apply at least, although the part saying you have to be capable of 12 hour days is kind of a red flag.This Boulder Valley school district position would be 50-72k per year for support, so the pay is good. I'm qualified. Maybe I should call someone tomorrow and see when exactly they call the supervisor, explain that my supervisor wouldn't be happy to find out that I'm looking for a new job.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:That hasn't been my experience sadly DigitalMocking posted:Always apply.
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The job I just started I am woefully under-qualified for, 60-70% of what they were looking for/wanted I've only vaguely touched but I know about it, researched it and talked big, but did not lie. I haven't done A but I'd do something like X, Y, Z, google, and lean on co-workers for help as needed
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MF_James posted:The job I just started I am woefully under-qualified for, 60-70% of what they were looking for/wanted I've only vaguely touched but I know about it, researched it and talked big, but did not lie. I was actually strangely confident on applications and in the interview today. I feel like I'm somehow getting in the groove of emphasizing the awesome things I've done without sounding arrogant, which has always been one of my problems. Probably doesn't hurt that the line of questioning in the interview naturally led to me saying that I started college at 16. They were going job by job on what I'd done, I think I need to guide the conversations a bit and try to pull in the significance of what I've done at some jobs (Powershell a several week job into two days, create budget reports for a $70 million project within four months of first touching the product). I'm very lacking in self-confidence, especially lately. I feel like I need someone to hype me up before interviews or something.
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Tab8715 posted:What’s everyone’s thoughts on nearly every IT Position starting with senior? We currently have a few junior contractors who have listed their current job as Senior Lead <role> at <department> <company>, simply because they are the only person in that role in that team. The actually seniors in other teams are pretty annoyed by it and give them poo poo for it weekly when they come in with questions anyone with more than 2-3 years of experience would know. They are all contracted through the same lovely company and I think the company makes them do this. They also have fabricated CV’s when applying to match the requested skillset almost 100%. When interviewing it turns out that they don’t actually have experience but they thought about following a training in the next couple of months. We’ve fired several of them already and the one that still remains can’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Developer how has never written a unit test, took 8 sprints to deliver a 5 point feature and keeps crying that “the pipeline is making his life incredibly difficult and sets an unreasonable standard”. In the meanwhile we have a dozen of other teams who do not have any trouble with our coding standards. Company they work for are on my personal shitlist. If I see a resume from them I auto decline the HR request to interview them these days.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm very lacking in self-confidence, especially lately. I feel like I need someone to hype me up before interviews or something. HBO's _Oz_ taught me that PCP will fix this for you.
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Methanar posted:
This a thousand times. I've told it to a countless number of people over the years. Years ago I didn't apply for something as I didn't think I was good enough. After the position was filled the hiring manager asked why I hadn't put an application in, "didn't think I was qualified" was my response. Turns out she thought I was. I still kick myself about it every now and then.
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I almost had a job as a "senior" once. It was going to be first line support. Senior was because "you would be taking control of your own issues".
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Senior for me was a means to an end. We got bought out by a *INSERT LARGE MULTI-NATIONAL HERE* who implemented a system whereby you may receive no raise in pay other than through moving to a newer position which has a higher pay range. Previously all of my staff were at the same level, no junior and no senior. Just *Administrator*. In order to get around this I invented senior positions and split off some very specific things to go with it so that I still have a path to reward staff who excel beyond "Keeping them up with inflation". If I wish to retain and grow internal talent it is my only real choice. It also allows me to go to market at a higher offering than I otherwise could.
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insidius posted:Do you have a HR you can speak to about your concerns? I have traditionally distrusted HR but we got a HR person about a year ago who has been fantastic and would absolutely not stand for that. I myself have lost team members (to be fair I encouraged them) due to such a process and HR will not allow any team to prevent application nor to interfere with applications simply because it will impact an existing team. They believe strongly in progression and will deal with the results of that progression to existing teams in an independent manner. I think raising it before anything happens is probably a bit presumptuous and wouldn't reflect well on me but it's an option Interestingly, between my last post and now, we found out one of the other managers that does the same job as me is about to disappear on secondment for 9 months so I'm trying to get in touch to find out what plans are in place to cover that to pre-empt anything on that front. One slightly political option is to just openly tell everyone that I'm going for this job, I think most people will say yeah you'd be a good fit there so if there was any sneaky tactics and I was to raise an issue, at least it would be fairly unexpected that I didn't get that move - also at that point if I did raise it, I'd basically be seeking employment elsewhere anywhere so I wouldn't really care. but yes this is an option if it transpires that anyone is being naughty ha
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"Engineer" is not protected in Australia*, so anyone can call themselves a ___ engineer with no degree or certification. It certainly sounds better than "senior sandwich technician"... *Except the title "Registered Professional Engineer"
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PancakeTransmission posted:"Engineer" is not protected in Australia*, so anyone can call themselves a ___ engineer with no degree or certification. It certainly sounds better than "senior sandwich technician"... Weird - when I was in Australia they wouldn't even let me make a patch lead myself as I am not a qualified electrician. So seems weird they wouldn't protect that title. One of my friends went to University (infact my only friend that went to Uni...) and got some engineering degree, so when my other friend calls himself a heating engineer - degree friend goes mental saying you're not a real engineer bla bla bla My title used to have engineer in when I was 21 and basically turned computers on and off and hoped for the best ha ha.
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I've gone from security analyst to security engineer to senior security engineer over three and a half years /shrug. I'm very good at what I do in the context of the role and our company, so I guess it makes sense but I wouldn't see myself as senior going somewhere else.
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insidius posted:Senior for me was a means to an end. We got bought out by a *INSERT LARGE MULTI-NATIONAL HERE* who implemented a system whereby you may receive no raise in pay other than through moving to a newer position which has a higher pay range. So what happens when everyone on your team has been bumped to senior and every new hire is one to keep up with market wages? You have an entire team of senior administrators and the title is again meaningless.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:So what happens when everyone on your team has been bumped to senior and every new hire is one to keep up with market wages? You have an entire team of senior administrators and the title is again meaningless.
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Distinguished principal engineer
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I'm starting to get flashbacks to cliffyB's game mocking COD here. E: Duty calls, if anyone doesn't know.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:So what happens when everyone on your team has been bumped to senior and every new hire is one to keep up with market wages? You have an entire team of senior administrators and the title is again meaningless. Nah. I got juniors now internally if needed. Not every admin is a winner so always room for juniors.
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Sepist posted:Distinguished principal engineer Delightfully Devilish Principal
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Bigger companies also tend to have a tier called "(senior) staff engineer" that sits between senior and principal.
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LochNessMonster posted:We currently have a few junior contractors who have listed their current job as Senior Lead <role> at <department> <company>, simply because they are the only person in that role in that team. inwork?
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The bad part of my job is rearing its ugly head in full force today. Since I work for a large bank security and network engineering are completely separated even in our test lab. I need to make one minor change to Cisco ISE to confirm a feature on a new platform but because all of the security ISE SMEs (2!!!) Are on PTO it wont get done. I know ISE pretty well so I sent an email to one our security distro groups asking someone with admin to screen share with me and I'll walk them through it...completely ignored. So now I have to get up 2 levels of management to have them force someone to work with me. Gonna go back to small/medium businesses when I'm ready to move on. I think the lone wolf engineer fits me much better
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I was a Lead Consultant because hey, I'm a consultant on a one man team for this product, I guess I'm the Lead, right?
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insidius posted:implemented a system whereby you may receive no raise in pay other than through moving to a newer position which has a higher pay range. gently caress this now and forever. That's a good way to ensure that good people leave for somewhere that will at least keep up with inflation/cost of living, if not merit increases. angry armadillo posted:Weird - when I was in Australia they wouldn't even let me make a patch lead myself as I am not a qualified electrician. So seems weird they wouldn't protect that title. I was a Workstation Engineer computer janitor at my last gig, for several years. My dad is an actual Mechanical Engineer, so I felt kind of self-conscious about it. Current gig - I'm not actually sure what my title is. I'm using "Help Desk Analyst" because that's what the other guys are using, but I'm not actually Help Desk, though still largely a PC janitor. dogstile posted:I'm starting to get flashbacks to cliffyB's game mocking COD here. <fire 5 bullets> RANK UP! SERGEANT SERGEANT MASTER SERGEANT SHOOTER PERSON!
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orange sky posted:I was a Lead Consultant because hey, I'm a consultant on a one man team for this product, I guess I'm the Lead, right? Bad news, you're also the Junior Consultant.
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I'm a "senior technology specialist" and it basically means that in addition to still doing some regular ticket work, I am to go to person for the higher ups and I get to do project work. But I do get paid alot more than the "technology specialists" on the team so w/e.
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im a functional lead, didnt know that i was a functioning human.
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LochNessMonster posted:We currently have a few junior contractors who have listed their current job as Senior Lead <role> at <department> <company>, simply because they are the only person in that role in that team. If one of my colleges misrepresented their credentials that's on them not me. If it impacts the business or reputation of the company then HR needs to get involved. On the flip side, I've seen many folks  polish their resumes and interview with assistance which could be considered by some to straight up lying. What is interesting though is how many HR Departments don't validate employment history or only check with their current employer, don't ask questions based off of their resume or if they graduated college or even high school.I've seen it personally happen at F1000s. It's freaking weird but YMMV.
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Coworker was searching for a fix for an issue with ClickShare (neat screen sharing thing)
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silicone thrills posted:Coworker was searching for a fix for an issue with ClickShare (neat screen sharing thing) Replace clickshare with skype for business meetings and all of those results are valid
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Sepist posted:Replace clickshare with skype for business meetings and all of those results are valid Complete agreement. We are using sfb on prem and we're going on like... a year of lovely behavior. Every time I see my manager and director I start pounding my desk and chanting teams teams teams . (IT is already all using it, I just want to hurry up and get the wide deployment done) Also we have meeting/chat history turned off so sfb really really doesn't work right and constantly loses messages completely. Some weirdo previous legal decision. silicone thrills fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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Darchangel posted:gently caress this now and forever. That's a good way to ensure that good people leave for somewhere that will at least keep up with inflation/cost of living, if not merit increases. I was a 'support engineer' at my first job. Pretty sure the developers hated that support was called engineers, and real engineers probably hate that software devs are called engineers.
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Darchangel posted:gently caress this now and forever. That's a good way to ensure that good people leave for somewhere that will at least keep up with inflation/cost of living, if not merit increases. I most certainly do not agree it with it and find it...ill considered. Luckily while owned by a multinational (HQ in the US) our management is relatively independent (Provided we hit revenue targets) and so we have *some* room to move on things. I am fairly sure the highest up here are not exactly blind to my little scheme and simply choose to turn a blind eye to it. The US just sees “promotions”. That being said the company that owns is in an entirely different industry to what we actually do so I would not expect they look that deeply into what junior or senior actually mean if anything. They just see junior and senior.
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I looked today and I have about 30k in a retirement account at 29. That seems low to me but then I realized that there's a ton of people that have zero dollars in retirement. I should really increase my deposit amount in my retirement this year...
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Vargatron posted:I looked today and I have about 30k in a retirement account at 29. That seems low to me but then I realized that there's a ton of people that have zero dollars in retirement. Just make sure you're maximizing any company match you get. Save as much as you feel comfortable with, but I'm not a fan of hyper saving. Tomorrow is not promised, so balance preparing for retirement while still having some fun today. I'm in my mid/late 30's and my wife and I have about 250K between the 2 of us, and I fret that it won't be enough, but I know way too many people my age with ZERO retirement money.
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