Ever wonder what is the difference between a specialist, analyst or architect is? What about a cloud engineer? While many organizations take a very frugal way of defining the role, many smaller organizations don’t really structure their positions correctly. For those new to IT, it’s very difficult to understand why one job has an IT …
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Cyber Recovery and Backup?
As you enter the market, a strong understanding of corporate backup strategies and cyber recovery impacts is a key skill. Many certifications glimpse over this topic, but the job skill and knowledge of it is mandatory. With permission from Toronto Metropolitan University, I was able to release this video. It covers the key governance skills …
4 Things you NEED to know before your IT JOB Interview
A person I’ve been mentoring wanted help to transition in to a career that would pay more, have more growth options, and allowed him to move on and do bigger and better things. I’ll call this person Peter, to make the case simple. Peter worked over 8 years as a PC technician, he goes into …
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Best help to get back into your career?
Did you ever take a year or two off to raise your kids and realize that technology has evolved and not sure where to start? Just graduate from a school and not sure how to land a job? Or moving to a new country and unsure where to go? Here’s some advice for you coming …
Changing workplace?
Been asked to respond to this question from LinkedIn News Editor, Andrew Seaman: “What’s your advice for people who want to make their current role or workplace more meaningful and inspiring? What have you done in the past to refocus and find purpose in your work?” I’ll give 3 pieces of advice as we come …
Awesome Free courses to Help stack your Resume!
After your certification, you still need more skills to get your first IT job. If you’re looking for a cloud analyst job or a cloud dev ops admin, there are some courses that can help you increase your skill set… and the good news is.. it’s free! Some of these courses go from overview to …
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Cyber Security – a growing and much needed field
There are big changes in IT that will be affecting everyone. 3 big impacts coming that you should be aware of: Multi-cloud enablement – Covid has significantly impaired supply chains – making businesses move toward running multiple clouds for redundancy and business continuance. Cost savings in digitizing processes via AI/ML with data analytics enablement Cyber …
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Adding a picture to your Resume?
I’ve been asked before if you should add your picture in a resume? Well the answer for everything in IT is “It depends”. If you’re getting ready to join an IT career, this is the common answer. Why? Well, people in an IT career are very process focused. It’s never YES or NO, it’s always …
My Resume???
So, I’ve talked to you guys about creating a resume so much. Some of you on my private rooms asked to see my resume! I won’t be able to share 100% of my resume publicly as some of the information and tasks I’ve done are semi-private non disclosure. I’d also have to remove it based …
Be a contractor? or Work for a company?
I got this question that I would like to address: Hi Rick, I wanted your input on what do you think of me learning everything I can about AI/ML, Computer Science & Software Engineering & just launching up my own company with the skills I have? I feel like that could be better vs always …
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