u/ioCross

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I chopped up my resume a bit since I have 15 YOE in enterprise IT, with the past 7 years focused on projects. I figured there wasn't a point in adding roles that weren't relevant.

I'm currently studying for my PMP, there aren't any on-ramps to PM roles at my current job, and while they are very impressed with me due to my prev AI implementation exp, I've learned the hard way to always assume the worst in regards to things like that so I'm wary about putting all my eggs in the 'prove myself and get an official PM title' basket.

How strong would my resume be with another 9-10 months at my current role with corresponding metrics to show competence?

I do know that I would have to re-target my prev exp to match PM language but am I wrong for assuming that it will be relatively easy to get a role within enterprise IT PM? fwiw, my current role is fairly high up the food chain. my direct manager is the director of infrastructure, and I directly interface with GRC, platform OPS managers and other executive levels, and my role is to act with the director's mandate to push through vulnerability remediation initiatives. My only worry is that I don't have much direct project leadership exposure, and the IT PM that's actually involved in the project is so far removed from everything that we're doing that I've only directly spoken to him once for a few minutes so there's no real chance to ask him for mentorship or to ask if he needs assistance with anything outside of my scope within the project I'm working on.

I'm building out a career consulting side business focused mostly on enterprise IT, and I'm trying to get a better understanding of the hiring process from the recruiter side instead of just assuming I know how it works.

I've had a lot more exposure to the hiring manager/candidate side of things, but instead of guessing and making inferences about recruiting, I feel like actually talking to a few of you would be a lot more useful for me and my clients.

Looking for a few recruiters willing to do a short 15-20 min call. Mostly want to pick your brain about how you actually screen resumes, how much ATS matters in practice, what makes you pass/reject someone, what gets sent to the hiring manager, common mistakes you see from technical candidates, etc.

Especially interested in technical/IT recruiters, internal/corporate recruiters, agency/staffing recruiters, and senior recruiters/recruiting leads. Ideally you've recruited for infrastructure, cloud/DevOps, cybersecurity, software engineering, IT project management, SRE, etc.

I'm happy to pay $25 for 15-20 minutes since I'm asking for people's professional time. I'd also like to record/transcribe the conversation for my own research/notes, so you'd need to be comfortable with that. Nothing would be publicly attributed to you without permission.

Not looking for leads or trying to sell anybody anything. I genuinely just want to understand how the process looks from your side of the table.

If interested, DM me with roughly what kind of recruiting you do, how long you've been doing it, and whether you're internal or agency.

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Just wanted to show that with all the doom n gloom going around, you can still find jobs without any degrees or certs in this economy/market.

My official title is IT analyst but the role is project coordination / analysis on a large cybersecurity remediation project.

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see a lot of doom n gloom on this sub so i figured i'd post a success story. 79.4k a year, full remote.

it's a numbers game, you need to apply to as many jobs as humanly possible, and once you get an interview you need to sell yourself to your hiring manager. you have to always assume that ur interviewing vs ppl who have more exp and might be a better fit than you and treat the interviews accordingly.

i think i applied to ~600 jobs in 3 months, im pretty sure i applied to every single remote IT job posted in the USA that paid over $25/hr.

Wondering what the process for looking for / finding study groups/partners are.

currently about a week into 35hr AR course, hoping to finish by end of month. would ideally like someone to run mock exams with, bounce ideas off, etc etc.

There seems to be a lot of doom and gloom on this sub and for justified reasons so I figured i'd share a little success story.

Previous contract was as data migration engineer for logistics company doing a cloud migration project. Project was slated to go from 2023 - 12/2026 but we were able to finish around April due to automation. Was supposed to be hired full-time but due to the project ending when the war with Iran was kicking off, and the fact that 70% of our business was done thru the strait, they froze all hires.

Due to being a single parent, being locked to remote-work was a definite limiting factor and I'm pretty sure I applied to every single remote IT job available that paid more than $25/hr over the past 2 months.

I cast a wide of a net as possible and made 4 diff versions of my resume. one focusing on the project experience i had, one focusing on sys-admin and internal IT roles that i had, one for service desk and one focused on SaaS/CCaaS experience. all the work exp was the same, but the opening paragraph and my technical skills list would be completely different based on the job i was applying for.

i used indeed, ziprecruiter and linkedin as my main job boards but out of the 3, linkedin was the most useless as i almost got scammed by their linkedin+ and the only ppl that responded to me were scammers. ironically, linkedin was where i spent the most time, crafting a good profile, messaging recruiters directly and look up different companies.

the job i ended up getting was through ziprecruiter - which has the easiest to use interface, but I did end up getting more actual interviews through indeed.

altho my new job pays 80k, i was willing to go as low as 52k a year, since i do need to feed my kid.

i have zero certifications and no diploma, just 10 years in IT starting as a lvl 1 helpdesk drone.

my career path looks roughly like this: lvl 1 helpdesk at msp -> lvl 1 helpdesk at POS company -> internally promoted to desktop support -> technical trainer / lvl 2 @ msp -> started working projects at said MSP -> studying for PMP and gaining hours, focus on project managment -> covid hit and kid was born so started wfh -> remote SD lvl 2 contract -> IT analyst/data migration engineer contract -> current IT/cybersec analyst

best advice i can give to ppl is to constantly look for better jobs and constantly keep applying to them, even if you're not quite qualified.

also, getting a job is a numbers game. i probably applied to EVERY. SINGLE. remote IT job in the past few months that paid more than 25/hr. i got maybe 3 real interviews and 4 scam interviews. be ware of any 'interviewer' that immediately wants to meet you in a teams chat and doesn't want to show their face. i know there are a lot of indian recruiters and recruiters with accents that you speak to, but if their name is something like Thomas Evans, and he has a thick african accent, and doesn't want to show his face, it's most likely a scam.

I got 2 successful interviews out of all that mess and finally am awaiting the official offer letter so I can sign it.

good luck to everyone who's still in the market.

i just think its funny that in his head, he's so used to just getting there that he makes such a terrible call.

as i was watching the clip i kept being like 'ok well this is where mariano jams and doug calls, still dont know why he ragequit...'

then u realize that he checked turn, doug jams n he's the one that calls. quite the interesting line he took..

ppl that play ranked solo, how's the experience? i generally tend to not play br's by myself cuz of the team nature of the game but its hard to find time with my duo.

how bad is the general gameplay when dropping by yourself? do ppl tend to take it more serious since its ranked, or does it still suffer from same issues as normal quads?

im rookie2 for reference, only played ranked like 4-5x n wanna play more, just dont feel like going thru the lfg rigamorole any time my friends arent on.