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| sencha |
 Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 4:57 pm Post subject: MQ Career advice |
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Hi All
I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post this but I couldn't really find any others more relevant. Anyway, as per the subject I'm after some career advice. Currently for the past 7 years I have been working in a small middleware team - IBM Websphere App Server, ESB, MQ, tomcat, Jboss. I am also the so called "MQ expert" onsite. when I started working we had an MQ contractor who basically gave me a 2 hour handover of this "thing called MQ" and left. I had to learn it all from scratch as quickly as I could. Seven years later our MQ infrastructure has grown to 4 MQ production MQ servers, roughly 500 queues, 30 channels, 10 MQ clients and connections to about 4 other MQ servers I don't manage. Throughput is about 500k messages a day. I have never worked or had exposure to any other MQ environments but my guess this is probably on the tiny/small side in the MQ world. This may sound strange but I enjoy MQ and read mqseries.net for fun (with a different username) and want to leave all the other middleware and specialise in MQ. Where I live there aren't too many MQ roles advertised, mostly MQ architects or Tech leads which I feel I am underqualified for. I did apply for an MQ administrator role a couple years ago where I was interviewed but didn't get the role as I wasn't experienced enough. They asked what the environment was like that I managed and theres sounded about 100x larger. My question is, how should I go about landing an MQ specialist role and furthering my experience and knowledge. thanks in adavance . |
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I would hire someone with 7 years of experience in MQ as a tech lead.
You should make sure your resume/cv emphasis the MQ skills you have - described ideally with examples.
During interviews, you should ask about their environment. You said you ran into a situation with 100x the size you've worked. When you run into that, talk about how you would implement management tools. And then discuss what management tools they have - if they don't have a comprehensive suite - ideally bought rather than written - then you should talk about the advantages of such.
Ask about source control. Ask about on-call and what's expected.
In general - answer their questions with what you've actually done, talk about the tools you have or *want* to have - and then ask about how they solve the same thing.
And when it comes to money - say "This is what I expect the job pays", not "This is what I want to make".
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I'd also recommend that you write multiple and shorter paragraphs. Most/many employers evaluate all of your communication skills, along with your technical skills.
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| I'd also recommend that you write multiple and shorter paragraphs. Most/many employers evaluate all of your communication skills, along with your technical skills. |
And a one page resume.
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| Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
I would hire someone with 7 years of experience in MQ as a tech lead.
You should make sure your resume/cv emphasis the MQ skills you have - described ideally with examples.
During interviews, you should ask about their environment. You said you ran into a situation with 100x the size you've worked. When you run into that, talk about how you would implement management tools. And then discuss what management tools they have - if they don't have a comprehensive suite - ideally bought rather than written - then you should talk about the advantages of such.
Ask about source control. Ask about on-call and what's expected.
In general - answer their questions with what you've actually done, talk about the tools you have or *want* to have - and then ask about how they solve the same thing.
And when it comes to money - say "This is what I expect the job pays", not "This is what I want to make". |
Thanks Jeff |
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| sencha |
| Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
| I'd also recommend that you write multiple and shorter paragraphs. Most/many employers evaluate all of your communication skills, along with your technical skills. |
hahah thanks..
You were probably referring to my post. I was acually at work and using a text editor to type it and just did a cut/paste job |
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