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b'What\\u2019s hiring in the world of Cloud like? What are companies looking for in possible employees? What kind of career trajectory should applicants display?\\nToday, we\\u2019re talking to Don O\\u2019Neill, who has had an interesting career path and the archetype of who most companies want to hire. He\\u2019s been an independent contributor, platform leader, and Cloud consultant. Currently, Don is platform engineer manager at Articulate, an eLearning software solution for course authoring and eLearning development. He works with platform engineers to automate Blue Ocean pipelines with Docker, Terraform, and various Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, such as Elastic Beanstalk.\\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\\n\\nDon reached out to his network to ask people that he had a professional relationship with about who was hiring and what challenges they faced\\nDon\\u2019s \\u201cTherapy\\u201d: Go to meet-ups to talk about DevOps topics; serves as a \\u201cI\\u2019ve-got-to-get-my-hiney-out-of-the-house-and-get-some-social-time\\u201d\\nDon\\u2019s journey from being a \\u201cwee lad in the industry\\u201d to a senior member/leader and giving back as a way to recognize those who helped him along the way\\nHiring Horror Stories: People going through borderline ridiculous levels of hiring games and terrible interview paradigms\\nCompanies sometimes look for something too specific - exact match instead of fuzzy match; they never have time to train, but time to look for a perfect unicorn\\nArticulate\\u2019s Hiring Process: Day 1 - Slack interview; Day 2 - Technical pieces; and Day 3 - Pairing with others \\nArticulate looks for people enthusiastic about technology, able to learn, and with emotional intelligence; company values independence, autonomy, and respect\\nCompanies that spend several hours to make a hiring decision tend to have less success with those they hire\\nCloud Certificates/Certifications: Can be valuable for applicants with no real-world experience; they don\\u2019t indicate how they\\u2019re going to work or learn\\nApplicants need to demonstrate a base level of knowledge; if they don\\u2019t have a skill set, they should start a project to learn about something - learning is fun\\nIf you\\u2019re established in your career, reach out to someone just starting out to guide them \\nIf you\\u2019re starting out in your career, reach out to people to talk about the next steps to take in your career (contact Corey or Don)\\n\\nLinks:\\n\\nDon O\\u2019Neill on Twitter\\nArticulate\\nHangops.slack.com\\nCoffeeOps\\nAWS\\nAzure\\nDocker\\nTerraform\\nElastic Beanstalk\\nAutoscan\\nMarchex\\nApex Learning\\nDice\\nMonster\\nIndeed\\nSwitch App (Tinder for Jobs)\\nKubernetes\\nSpotify in Stockholm\\nCrowdStrike\\nre:Invent \\nAWS Summits\\nDigital Ocean'