[ale] Linux Server Basics Trainer requested by CNN

[Damon L. Chesser]

On 02/05/2014 05:44 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>
> The AUUG meeting this past Monday had a presentation by CCCi staffing 
> and they indicated there is a very high demand for admins these days.
>
> They suggested that if you’ve not been doing admin as your full time 
> job that you can emphasize the things you have been doing that are 
> admin type things on your resume.
>
> They also suggested that we greybeards often expect too much money for 
> jobs as compared to younger folks. An interesting observation they 
> made was that it doesn’t really matter what you’ve been doing for 
> 20-30 years when the technology in use now is only a few years old so 
> someone that has been doing it for 5 years has as much relevant 
> experience in the “current” technology as we do.
>

Blaspheme! get the pitch forks!


> *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Jim Kinney
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 05, 2014 5:38 PM
> *To:* Atlanta User Group (E-mail)
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Linux Server Basics Trainer requested by CNN
>
> I almost never see entry level admin jobs posted on any of the places 
> I haunt. Of the few that said entry level in the text, the breadth of 
> exposure was far beyond entry level.
>
> Not sure how anyone will move up and replace the gray beards when they 
> all transcend to the retired plane.
>
> On Feb 5, 2014 5:21 PM, "William Bagwell" <rb211 at tds.net 
> <mailto:rb211 at tds.net>> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 05 February 2014, Adrya Stembridge wrote:
> > Where are these junior level positions advertised? When I see job
> > related postings for linux admins, almost always it is for a senior 
> level
> > position. As someone who is interested in shifting into a junior level
> > admin role, this has been a little disheartening.
>
> Not on ALE-jobs. Have been subscribed since 2004 and out of over 800 
> postings
> have applied exactly once. Two possibly three more that I might have 
> applied
> for had they been closer.
>
> Entry level admin in the Kennasaw area posted October 19 2010. Wonder 
> who got
> it?
> --
> William
>
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