6 Figures 6 Certs Random Thoughts Thread

[Regine Hunter]

Have you made any Networking connections in Canada? I often stalk people's LinkedIn profiles until they send me connection requests. The easiest way to get a job depends on who you know. You should have several hundred LinkedIn connections by now. Because you never know if one of these people ends up at a company you're interviewing with for a job.

I met someone in passing at conference once and we kept in touch. Now I may end up partnering with this person on a joint venture.

You increase your odds of finding job opportunities the more technical people you know. If I hadn't struck up a conversation with this person and kept in touch. I would never known about this new opportunity.

I’ll be honest. The connection attempts I’ve made the other parties either blatantly ignored me, or led me astray. I connected with one self proclaimed tech recruiter, signed up for a phone consultation. I explained myself and he told me to start fixing computers for my family members for money, because that’s the best way to get into info sec.

I was appalled at how shytty his advice was. I do admit, I do need to connect with more Canadians to find a job but the goal really isn’t to stay here

 

[JT-Money]

I’ll be honest. The connection attempts I’ve made the other parties either blatantly ignored me, or led me astray. I connected with one self proclaimed tech recruiter, signed up for a phone consultation. I explained myself and he told me to start fixing computers for my family members for money, because that’s the best way to get into info sec.

I was appalled at how shytty his advice was. I do admit, I do need to connect with more Canadians to find a job but the goal really isn’t to stay here

I think right now with so many people being out of work even in Cybersecurity. What you need is hands on technical experience more than anything. Just getting the Security+ would've gotten you noticed 6 or 7 years ago. But now everyone wants technical experience on a million different technologies.

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The job market is even drying up for experienced folks. So having technical experience is more important than ever. Companies are laying off people who can't really solve technical issues.

Their are tons of hands on cybersecurity hands on lab tutorials on YouTube on just about any subject. The only people easily navigating this job market are highly technical.

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[phcitywarrior]

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[MoneyTron]

Yo, business school online is tough. I'm still learning and filling in the blanks that I wanted to(ya boy finally learned how to do DCF valuations ) but the in-person component was a good 70% of my reason for going. I feel both connected and disconnected to school. This 1st year gonna be a wash.

Outside of that, I'm 4 months into this HR role at work I volunteered for and while its fairly simple, I don't get anything out of it. I am grateful to have a job though.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Anyone have experience with peer-to-peer lending? I'm thinking about opening an investor account and Lending Club.

 

[Trav]

Have you made any Networking connections in Canada? I often stalk people's LinkedIn profiles until they send me connection requests. The easiest way to get a job depends on who you know. You should have several hundred LinkedIn connections by now. Because you never know if one of these people ends up at a company you're interviewing with for a job.

I met someone in passing at conference once and we kept in touch. Now I may end up partnering with this person on a joint venture.

You increase your odds of finding job opportunities the more technical people you know. If I hadn't struck up a conversation with this person and kept in touch. I would never known about this new opportunity.

For some strange reason, people STILL sleep on LinkedIn. My girl doesn't even have one and she's about to finish up her nursing degree and start job searching.

LinkedIn is one of the main reasons I got put on where I'm at now [Healthcare Data Analyst]. It's also how I met someone in the industry on the mentor tip. Hooked up with this Systems Engineer who started out as a Analyst and he gave me everything from resume advice to programs to download and learn to make myself more attractable.

Plus, I get hit up at least once or twice of week just off the strength of where I work and having my certs in my profile, etc.

 

[JT-Money]

For some strange reason, people STILL sleep on LinkedIn. My girl doesn't even have one and she's about to finish up her nursing degree and start job searching.

LinkedIn is one of the main reasons I got put on where I'm at now [Healthcare Data Analyst]. It's also how I met someone in the industry on the mentor tip. Hooked up with this Systems Engineer who started out as a Analyst and he gave me everything from resume advice to programs to download and learn to make myself more attractable.

Plus, I get hit up at least once or twice of week just off the strength of where I work and having my certs in my profile, etc.

Yep. I don't even bother with job sites anymore. Everything is either LinkedIn or Twitter for the most part.

It allows you to skip the middle man idiotic recruiters that just pit candidates against each other.

 

[DaRealness]

Do not perform the Windows 10 2004 update! Damn thing nearly fukked my whole shyt up.

 

[Macallik86]

Do not perform the Windows 10 2004 update! Damn thing nearly fukked my whole shyt up.

What happened? I just did it last night and I'm about to boot my computer for work

 

[DaRealness]

What happened? I just did it last night and I'm about to boot my computer for work

This was on Sunday.

The update itself took like an hour and a half which is cool cos I have a laptop to use in the meantime.

But then I noticed weird shyt kept happening - my computer would randomly lose internet connectivity, I got both the white and blue screen of death, icons on my desktop would literally take minutes to open up. I ran antivirus, antispyware and antimalware and none of it fixed it. I went into cmd and scanned my whole computer for any hardware or software related faults and it came back healthy. The whole thing was just baffling and frustrating. My computer is quite old so I thought it was on it's last legs which was worrying cos I could have lost a lot of shyt I didn't back up and I'm not trying to have any additional expenses at this time. I'm waiting until next year so I can build a super computer for myself once I change jobs and things are back to normal. Long story short, I had to do a rollback which ages but thankfully it's resolved the problem and I've backed shyt up just to be safe.

But the whole damn thing took HOURS to resolve.

Reading about it online it looks this update has got more bugs than a Brazilian rainforest. Windows fell the fukk off after XP.

 

[patscorpio]

My company is actually giving us juneteenth off. Unprecedented. 2 4 day work weeks in a row. Still i cant help but go at why I think this came to pass.

 

[patscorpio]

Reading about it online it looks this update has got more bugs than a Brazilian rainforest. Windows fell the fukk off after XP.

nah win 7 was a return to form and windows 8 was cool..windows 10 is an abomination

 

[Rawtid]

Yep. I don't even bother with job sites anymore. Everything is either LinkedIn or Twitter for the most part.

It allows you to skip the middle man idiotic recruiters that just pit candidates against each other.

That's funny because I hate LinkedIn. I never had the same experience as others did and at one point deleted my account. One of the assignments in my Masters course asked us to create and/or update our LinkedIn profile, I remember being so pissed. Even the recruiters that hit me up on there don't appear to be any better than others. I spoke with someone via LinkedIn the other day only to find out salary wasn't shyt. I wouldn't have wasted my time and I need to remember to ask up front. I like Indeed because you can search by salary and you don't really have to ask, just confirm what you've searched, which is a less awkward convo.

 

[JT-Money]

That's funny because I hate LinkedIn. I never had the same experience as others did and at one point deleted my account. One of the assignments in my Masters course asked us to create and/or update our LinkedIn profile, I remember being so pissed. Even the recruiters that hit me up on there don't appear to be any better than others. I spoke with someone via LinkedIn the other day only to find out salary wasn't shyt. I wouldn't have wasted my time and I need to remember to ask up front. I like Indeed because you can search by salary and you don't really have to ask, just confirm what you've searched, which is a less awkward convo.

I think right now in Cybersecurity every company is offering the same salary ranges. I've never gotten a job through a regular recruiter. So I only use them to figure out what's the going rate in a particular industry. Otherwise companies will base their offer on what you make currently.

LinkedIn has gotten me my last two job roles mainly because I apply through the LinkedIn site. When applying directly through a company website I get ignored. But someone is always looking at their Corporate LinkedIn page.

These companies then turn around and have me fill out my application on their website. But only after I damn near have the job in the bag. And this is like the 2nd or 3rd company in a row that's done this. Maybe it's just easier for them to navigate LinkedIn internally or something. But I rarely hear anything back when applying directly on a Corporate website. So I just stopped doing it unless they require it. Plus it's much quicker than the Corporate website which is like 30 pages long.