Sr. UNIX Administrator (Solaris)
VTRAC Consulting
"Solutions for Growth"
Please e-mail your resume as Ms-Word attached document with reference to Job
order number 11027, in confidence to ro...@vtrac.com call: (416) 366-2600 x
220
POSITION: Sr. UNIX/Team Lead (Sun Solaris Administrator)
STATUS: Permanent
LOCATION: Toronto
JOB #: 11027
Responsibilities:
You are responsible for the transition of the UNIX servers (Sun Solaris) to
the new Data Warehouse infrastructure. Planning, consulting to, and
mentoring the team members. Support the existing servers and the transition
process. Reporting to the Director of Unix Systems.
Requirements:
a.. Min. 8 yrs. of exp. as UNIX Solaris admin.
b.. Extensive exp. in production support, clustering, configuration,
capacity planning
c.. Extensive Exp. with Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Manager,
Netback up, EMC, SRDF, SAN, VSS, VMS and Replicator
d.. Exp. in Shell and Perl scripting
e.. Sever configuration
f.. System and network troubleshooting
g.. Min 4 years of exp. in Sybase or Oracle
h.. Min 4 years of exp. in large mission-critical 24/7 production support
environment
i.. Ability to implement data and disaster recovery systems ensuring
maximum data protection, monitoring performance of network and database
j.. Experience in financial industry or brokerage environment is an asset,
but not a must.
k.. Strong UNIX admin skills. (Solaris)
l.. Experience in Server Transition
m.. Experienced working in production environment with large server farm
n.. In-depth knowledge of server transition best practices and planning
o.. Sun Solaris Certification
Other Skills:
a.. Understanding the concept of e-trust
a.. Excellent verbal and written English communication and presentation
skills
We thank all the candidates in advance. Only those candidates that are
selected for interview will be contacted. For other exciting opportunities,
please visit us at www.vtrac.com.
Best regards,
Rod Power, Manager Client Services
VTRAC Consulting Corporation
t. (416) 366-2600 ext. 220
f. (416) 366-5550
ro...@vtrac.com
366 Bay Street, Suite 500
Toronto, ON, M5H 4B2
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Steve Sigman
>
> Interesting that a clueless head hunter would billboard post a company
> confidential communication to a news group on the internet. Seems he
> needs to find new and exiting opportunities in career placement
> somewhere else...
>
> [LART'ed to ISP and vtrac's abuse]
Almost better is the fact that he asks for a Sr. Unix admin's resume in
MS word format.
Dragan Cvetkovic
Well, nowadays you can at least create your resume using vi (or emacs!) and
just copy it into a star office and that makes them happy ...
Dragan
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Richard B. Gilbert
MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they
know! It's also how they send a resume to HR. The hiring manager may
not know anything else either. Get used to it!
Nobody is particularly interested in a paper copy of your resume any
more. You e-mail your resume in Word format and the recipient makes any
paper copies he needs.
Rich Teer
> MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they know!
No necessarily. I've sent them PDFs before now. If I was more
adventurous, I send 'em StarOffice files, but I think they're not
sufficiently savvy enough for that yet.
> It's also how they send a resume to HR. The hiring manager may not know
> anything else either. Get used to it!
If we all did that, M$ would forever reign. :-(
--
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President,
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Dave (from the UK)
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>
>>MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they know!
>
>
> No necessarily. I've sent them PDFs before now. If I was more
> adventurous, I send 'em StarOffice files, but I think they're not
> sufficiently savvy enough for that yet.
Some agencies like to remove your name/address from the CV, so the
company can't approach you directly.
>>It's also how they send a resume to HR. The hiring manager may not know
>>anything else either. Get used to it!
>
>
> If we all did that, M$ would forever reign. :-(
>
As much as I hate M$, when you are looking for a job, it is not the time
to object to peoples desire for MS format files.
I always create them in StarOffice and save in Word format, although I
would be reluctant to do that on very complex documents.
--
Dave K
http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/
Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually. The month is
always written in 3 letters (e.g. Jan, not January etc)
KarlD
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
> > MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they know!
Personally, I would never apply for a job at a company where
a resume submitted in text format or PDF is not good enough.
> No necessarily. I've sent them PDFs before now. If I was more
> adventurous, I send 'em StarOffice files, but I think they're not
> sufficiently savvy enough for that yet.
Staroffice has an option for exporting to M$ Word format,
which works OK for not too complicated documents.
Had to use that feature in Staroffice to submit presentation
slides for a conference, which required M$ powerpoint
format not long ago.
Personally I use Framemaker on Sparcs as my normal writing platform.
Unfortunaelty, we will probably never see Framemaker on
Solaris x86. Adobe canceled it for Mac OS X not long ago.
Frank Fegert
> Steve Sigman wrote:
>>
>> Almost better is the fact that he asks for a Sr. Unix admin's resume in
>> MS word format.
>>
> MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they
> know! It's also how they send a resume to HR. The hiring manager may
> not know anything else either. Get used to it!
>
> Nobody is particularly interested in a paper copy of your resume any
> more. You e-mail your resume in Word format and the recipient makes any
> paper copies he needs.
Ask yourself, do you really want to work at a shop where
people are clueless enough not to be able to deal with
PDFs? If the answer is no, (pdf)LaTeX is your friend.
On the other hand it's always big time for laughts when
you're on the resume evaluating end of things. There's
really a lot to learn about a person if you're willing
to dig through the history of a M$ Word document ;-)
Regards,
Frank
UX-admin
>> Almost better is the fact that he asks for a Sr. Unix admin's resume in
>> MS word format.
>>
>>
> MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they
> know! It's also how they send a resume to HR. The hiring manager may
> not know anything else either. Get used to it!
>
> Nobody is particularly interested in a paper copy of your resume any
> more. You e-mail your resume in Word format and the recipient makes any
> paper copies he needs.
No way!
Do you know the real reason why head hunters ask for CVs in MS Word
format? It's because they want to edit the CV and put their junk in
front of it, and otherwise strip the candidate's name, addr, and so on.
I don't *EVER* send them my CV in any editable format. The only thing
they get is PDF. There is kicking and screaming and gnashing of teeth,
but that's the way it is.
Most head hunters are slowly starting to get used to it. Some will even
ask for a CV in PDF.
dye
Richard B. Gilbert <rgilb...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Steve Sigman wrote:
>
>>>Interesting that a clueless head hunter would billboard post a company
>>>confidential communication to a news group on the internet. Seems he
>>>needs to find new and exiting opportunities in career placement
>>>somewhere else...
>>>
>>>[LART'ed to ISP and vtrac's abuse]
>>
>>Almost better is the fact that he asks for a Sr. Unix admin's resume in
>>MS word format.
>>
>>
>MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they
>know! It's also how they send a resume to HR. The hiring manager may
>not know anything else either. Get used to it!
The point was that a Sr. Unix admin's resume is probably in TROFF
format.
--Ken "-mm format" Dye
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Logan Shaw
> Steve Sigman <stev...@nospam.hotmail.com> writes:
>> Almost better is the fact that he asks for a Sr. Unix admin's resume in
>> MS word format.
> Well, nowadays you can at least create your resume using vi (or emacs!) and
> just copy it into a star office and that makes them happy ...
There's an easier way. Fire up vi and create an HTML resume. Test
it with your web browser to see if it looks good.
Then rename my-resume.html to my-resume.doc, and send that to the
recruiter. Their computer will see the ".doc" extension and tell
Microsoft Word to open it. Microsoft Word will detect the HTML
inside the file and import it. The recruiter gets what they want,
and you don't have to have to feel bad about supporting thing in a
proprietary file format, because you didn't.
- Logan
Richard B. Gilbert
>In article <tYKdnRiNvuDhk0Xe...@comcast.com>,
>Richard B. Gilbert <rgilb...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Steve Sigman wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Interesting that a clueless head hunter would billboard post a company
>>>>confidential communication to a news group on the internet. Seems he
>>>>needs to find new and exiting opportunities in career placement
>>>>somewhere else...
>>>>
>>>>[LART'ed to ISP and vtrac's abuse]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Almost better is the fact that he asks for a Sr. Unix admin's resume in
>>>MS word format.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>MS Word is the standard format requested by recruiters! It's all they
>>know! It's also how they send a resume to HR. The hiring manager may
>>not know anything else either. Get used to it!
>>
>>
>
>The point was that a Sr. Unix admin's resume is probably in TROFF
>format.
>
>--Ken "-mm format" Dye
>
>
>
The point is that head hunters use, and expect, MS Word. They wouldn't
have a clue what to do with a troff document. If you really want a job,
you try to cater to their little eccentricities!! Or you could, if you
wanted to risk having your resume arrive several days after all the
other applicants (or never), snail-mail a paper copy.
If you were sending your resume to another Sr. Unix admin, a troff file
might be appropriate.
Joe D.
Beautiful! Now say it like Jack Nickolson in 'Five Easy Peices".
"I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat
toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me
a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any
rules."
Dave (from the UK)
> Personally, I would never apply for a job at a company where
> a resume submitted in text format or PDF is not good enough.
How about somewhere which has an online application form in Word format?
I'm about to apply for a post. This is not for a Senior UNIX
administrator, but it is for a UNIX post.
The application form is in Word format and I need to edit it to add my
own details. StarOffice 7 manages to load the file and I can edit it,
but I have already hit two problems, despite only filling in half the
first page.
1) They want my name in 3 places (forename, middle name, and surname).
One of them comes out red, although I have not set the colour.
2) My address is partially cut off, since the bottom of the letters runs
into a horizontal line.
They will not accept paper copies. So really the only 7 options open to
me with the most sensible being one that involves the use of Word.
1) Don't apply - not particularly attractive as I am currently not
working. (Anyone got a UNIX post going in/around London - I find
agencies next to useless.)
2) Try and fix the problems wtih the application form in StarOffice 7,
then save to PDF.
3) Download StarOffice 8 and see if that is any better than 7.
4) Fill in with Word and submit it in Word.
5) Fill in in Word and convert to PDF before submitting.
6) Fill in in Word and Submit in some other format (HTML for example)
7) Endless number of silly methods, which are not really sensible at all.
I'll try option Option 3 but assuming that does not work, option 4 seems
the next best to me. That *needs* Word to be used.
I always try to use the best tool available to do any job. In this case,
I expect Word will be the best tool.