IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[DaRealness]

 

[GollyImGully]

December has always been a laid back month for me work wise and the trend is continuing

Had to give a presentation this week to all the tech/dev teams about our vpn infra and I was on that ZOOM straight up

. But now its smooth sailing from here on out taking vacay for like 2 weeks starting christmas week too

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

Just had a recruiter tell me a role wouldnt be a good fit just because I dont have "RECENT" Group Policy Experience, Even though the other 90% of my skills are the reason she's been blowing up my phone for the past few hours


Stupid Muthafukkas yo...


Oh well. Would have only been a lateral move in pay for a 6 month contract anyways


then the bytch tries to grill me about what other companies i'm applying to after shooting me down

bytch......

 

[ryda518]

Just had a recruiter tell me a role wouldnt be a good fit just because I dont have "RECENT" Group Policy Experience, Even though the other 90% of my skills are the reason she's been blowing up my phone for the past few hours


Stupid Muthafukkas yo...


Oh well. Would have only been a lateral move in pay for a 6 month contract anyways


then the bytch tries to grill me about what other companies i'm applying to after shooting me down

bytch......

Sometimes I think about making my own recruitment company so people don’t have to suffer through this bullshyt

Sometimes it works out but mostly it’s so much time wasted

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

Sometimes I think about making my own recruitment company so people don’t have to suffer through this bullshyt

Sometimes it works out but mostly it’s so much time wasted

Yeah Man I'm definitly on some self sufficient shyt and considering the same

It burns me up to think about how some slimy, flaky, MF who doesnt even understand my industry, skillset, and ambition can stand between me and a high paying job.

I have 0 respect for these muthafukas, truly bottom feeders.

 

[DaRealness]

Just had a recruiter tell me a role wouldnt be a good fit just because I dont have "RECENT" Group Policy Experience, Even though the other 90% of my skills are the reason she's been blowing up my phone for the past few hours


Stupid Muthafukkas yo...


Oh well. Would have only been a lateral move in pay for a 6 month contract anyways


then the bytch tries to grill me about what other companies i'm applying to after shooting me down

bytch......

I would have told to her fukk off. You didn't do shyt for me but I'm supposed to help you?

They always run the "what other companies have you applied to just so I don't send your resume to them again?" as if people aren't up on that bullshyt by now.

Honestly, recruiters cause the worse kind of pain to people who are already struggling to find work as it is. Talking about fake jobs and salaries, not looking at your resume and the job role before actually calling you, then completely wasting your time overall after getting your hopes up. Last year especially, I dealt with some real foul ones.

That's why I'm applying directly to the source from now on or with other agencies I've dealt with whom I have a good history. The Indian ones are obviously blacklisted from the jump and won't even get a second of my time, but if I sense bullshyt within the first minute the phone is going down and they're getting blocked.

 

[Dave24]

Word of advice to Brehs, especially ones new to the industry

Stay the fukk away from Dice

1. Youre gonna post your resume publicly and get a high stream of phone calls that are gonna gas you up and make you feel like you hot shyt in these streets
2. You're gonna realize a disproportionate amount of these calls are from indian recruiters who're masking their location to be random states in the US
3. Most of the position they contact you about will be irrelevant or non existent roles for low pay in some place 4000 miles away from where you actually are
3. Should you take the bait, Said recruiters will never follow up after the initial convo....Never. (Sending you shytty, carelessly sewn together word-salad wish lists void of useful details isnt following up)
5. Months after you've taken down your resume, you're still gonna be getting calls from indian firms who hot potatoed your resume to other companies and so on.

Dice is a barren wasteland, a resume graveyard of sorts,

Actual American-based talent acquisitions specialist dont really post jobs on there even though it looks like it. Most of these jobs are outdated as shyt but keep getting reposted so that the date is shown as most recent
I've seen the same 25 jobs hanging around for months at a time, but has a status of " posted 15 mins ago"

Just avoid this place altogether as its a waste of time.

Monster is shyt too,
Career Builder is a condemned crack-house, the Geocities or Angelfire of job boards. My only guess as to why they're still "operating" is that they dont want to give up the domain name.
Indeed is holding on by a thread, but still has some merit.


My advice...

this will take some time but here's what I do

go to glassdoor.com and search whatever IT postion you want and see which companies have those positions

next , go to the actual companies "career" section or job search engine and book mark.

It can be more exhaustive than simply using a search engine so that's why I recommend bookmarking at least 5-10 companies career pages a day until you have accumulated a fukk ton of them.

let's assume you do 5 a day; that's 35 companies in a week you can have in your make-shift database

1 month...That's 140 companies. rinse and repeat

It takes more work than using job board but, but a better chance of finding a job

 

[Dave24]

I just bought this book. I do not have access to a computer though so if I only strictly use the book and study this book will it be enough for me to get my A+ certification?

 

[JT-Money]

I just bought this book. I do not have access to a computer though so if I only strictly use the book and study this book will it be enough for me to get my A+ certification?

I haven't taken that exam in like 6 or 7 years. But you could probably find a free A+ training class in your city.

 

[JT-Money]

These companies never learn.


Ex-Cisco engineer who nuked 16k WebEx accounts goes to prison

Ex-Cisco engineer who nuked 16k WebEx accounts goes to prison

 

[HoldThisL]

F these Indian Recruiters, stop hitting me up for any type of job

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

F these Indian Recruiters, stop hitting me up for any type of job

Do the needful

 

[Slic Ric]

Been dealing with recruiters myself, the worst

3 guys had called me 6x in the span of 6 hours & never heard of them ever again

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

The nerve of these recruiters


Yo this bytch really just called me to help her modify my resume to put shyt on their I didnt originally have.

bytch was fumbling and stuttering all over the place when I confronted her about it

told her " If they ask me about this Citrix VDI stuff Iam going to tell them I have no experience with it so it's best you dont put that on there, I've only dealt with VMware"


bytch continues to stutter and starts to juelzing about her reasoning and yada yada something about procedure..



All I heard was you were butchering my resume to reflect some shyt that isnt the truth just so your desperate ass can close the account and score commission.

God I hate these MF with a passion

This bytch by far is the sloppiest.

 

[EnzoG]

I watched this hes not lying we do need more blacks out here in tech. Definitely why I started my tech page to do my part for the community