>Does anyone here have experiance with large job boards like Kforce.com, >Monster.com, Jobsharks.com etc? Well, I can attest that I posted my resume on headhunter.net almost two years ago and got 22 responses the first week (most, but not all, were headhunters, of course), 16 or 17 of which resulted in interviews and at least 10 of which generated job offers . I didn't accept any of them, for one reason or another, but it's plain that _someone_ reads those things... In a virtually completely unrelated vein, because I'm too lazy and thrifty to post twice, I'd like to add one more snippet on an earlier topic. I have absolutely no desire to revisit the 'value of certification' debate of a few months ago, but I have one quick observation to share concerning the certification process. I took the CISSP exam earlier this month, and the several weeks of intensive study in preparation for it were invaluable. For any of you out there who are like me and are simply too busy to read nearly as much as you'd like on emerging technologies or advances in extant ones, this enforced discipline is priceless. Simply as a result of the exam preparation process, I now understand tedious (to me) things like risk management and elliptic curve cryptography a lot more thoroughly than I did before. What I'm trying to say here is that, while I will readily concede that certification has its good and bad points, the focus it takes to prepare for the exam was, at least for me, well worth the money spent on registration. I doubt that I would have ever been able to justify to myself the singleminded concentration on truly comprehending some of the more difficult security topics that I found necessary to feel reasonably comfortable taking the test. Despite my job title, I spend at least as much time as a WAN engineer, data telecomm consultant, programmer, and Unix sysadmin as I do on InfoSec, so absorption of new information tends to be gradual and haphazard. In summary, while I can't in good conscience recommend that everyone take a cert exam, I can heartily recommend that everyone *study* for one. Cheers and such, RGF Robert G. Ferrell Information Security Officer National Business Center, US DoI Robert_G_Ferrellat_private ------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing I have ever said should be construed as even vaguely representing an official statement by the NBC or DoI. ------------------------------------------------------------
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