223 Answered Questions for the topic career development

Career Development

05/13/19

Career Change in to Testing?
I've around 10+ years of experience in Banking operations including reconciliations, sales, customer services, asset management, and financial transaction QA. Coming to academics I've done my PG in... more
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Career Development Manual Testing

05/13/19

Which language would benefit in Software Testing career?
I'm Software Test Engineer and have 3+ years of experience. Still I haven't done any localization testing. As far I can guess, a tester should know the language to test the application for that... more
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Career Development Management Team Management Team

05/12/19

Strategies to building up reputation as a software tester in a team?
It is important to maintain good and productive professional relationship with the management, stakeholders and development team. Many things may depend on that, but, for this question, let's focus... more
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05/10/19

What is the advantage of choosing testing as compared to other career paths in Software Industry?
I have had many people tell me that I made a big mistake by choosing QA path in IT industry and that I will never get opportunities to grow as compared to developers and database experts.... more
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Career Development Career

05/10/19

confused: computer security & software development career tracks?
I'm a recent computer science graduate. I like computer security and want to be a security architect. I googled it and saw that the start point is to be a system administrator, but system... more
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Career Development Career Penetration Test

05/09/19

Fresh Graduate Going into Penetration Testing?
As a fresh graduate I'm wondering what my chances are of joining a great pen-testing group. Is there a risk that a career in pen-testing may one day not be needed? If so, how applicable will skills... more
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Career Development Resume Style

05/08/19

Should I indent when I write just a short sentence?
I'm writing a curriculum vitae and in **Special skills** section I wrote as the following: **8- Special skills** I have the following skills: - C++ - Objective-C Should I indent "I have... more
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Career Development Career Appsec

05/06/19

AppSec interview questions?
I am preparing for a technical interview for an AppSec pen-testing position. For those of you that have had AppSec positions, what sharp-shooter questions do you think I can expect? What questions... more
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Career Development Career Penetration Test Attacks

05/05/19

How should one prepare himself for a job interview for penetration testing?
So, the title basically says it all. I would really like to hear out some of the more experienced friends here with their answers for this. - Should it revolve around the ability to verbally... more
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Career Development Career Savings Investing

05/04/19

Best way to start investing, for a young person just starting their career?
I am young, just started my career, and looking to begin investing so I can make my money work for me. I'm still living like I did in college (occasional purchase on myself, but most of it goes... more
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Career Development Interview Bug Report Bug Priority

05/04/19

Is asking about "The most interesting bug in your career" a good interview question?
We've been interviewing for quite some time and I've been asking candidates: > What is the most interesting bug you've found in your career? Either the most interesting, or the one they are... more
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Career Development Qa Developer

05/02/19

Want to be a developer?
Currently I am a quality engineer and I am working as automation and white box tester. I create automation suite in java and do white box test of java application how can I jump to java or J2ee... more
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Career Development Resume Letter Cover Letter

05/02/19

I have/am - what are other short ways to not repeat this in a cover letter?
I use the GIS/Programing ones extensively. For a cover letter, what are ways that you can avoid repeating >I have done .... >I have experience with ... >I am experienced in... >...
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Career Development Career Risk Investing

05/02/19

High-risk investing is better for the young? Why?
I have heard statements such as the question's time. Basically, it's a financial motto: "If you're young, take on more risk." I don't really understand it. I figured risk-tasking is a... more
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05/01/19

Test Automation Engineer, no record-playback?
I want to become a test automation engineer in the future. The thing that is concerning me is this: I have always thought that test automation is using record-playback to test different... more
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Career Development Career Certification Academia

04/30/19

Information Security Career tracks - Academically vs. IT certifications?
I will try to be as straightforward as possible here. I am currently working as a security integrator at an integration company. I work with products of vendors like Check Point, Cisco, Juniper,... more
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Career Development Career Professional Education

04/27/19

What are my options for a career switch into IT Security?
I am currently working as a Software/Web Developer with around eight years experience, however I have always had an interest in IT Security and am now hoping to move my career in this direction. I... more
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Career Development Career Salary Job Offer

04/26/19

What to do when a job offer is made but with a salary less than what was asked for?
I got a job offer this morning from a place I interviewed at yesterday for a front end developer position in nyc. I told them my salary expectation is 75k in the email to which they responded to... more
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Career Development Qa Developer

04/23/19

Contract-to-hire - viable to break into industry?
I am about to graduate with a BS in software development. I am proficient in Java, javascript, html, and css, but I feel like I'd like to orient my career more toward software testing and QA than... more
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Career Development Introduction Letter Cover Letter

04/23/19

Opening of a cover letter?
I am currently writing a cover letter (for a job application) and after a long 'struggle' with the opening paragraph, I've decided to start it by briefly presenting myself and then continuing... more
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04/23/19

How to prove oneself if company tends to reward Harvard/Princeton/etc graduates rather than performance?
I have been with my current employer for two years and over time noticed a trend (or bias) where recent graduates from top-ranked universities, sometimes with little experience, were hired to... more
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Career Development Career Professional Education

04/19/19

How would one go about becoming a Security Researcher?
Can any Security Researchers/Pentesters/Hackers point me in a direction to learn about becoming a Security Researcher and steps to take?
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Career Development Email Cover Letter

04/19/19

How to make an email less "me" centric?
The CEO of the company just sent out a letter about three people who will be leaving over the next week. I drafted an email to her expressing my interest in one of the positions that is going to be... more
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Career Development Public Speaking

04/17/19

What is the purpose of a technical presentation during an interview?
I am being interviewed, and was asked to prepare a short technical presentation about any topic of my choice. **What is the purpose** of such assignment and **what points should I take into... more
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Career Development Career Professional Education

04/16/19

Information Security is becoming more important, but why is it still so difficult to start off in?
For example i have seen countless speachess by the UK goverment on how likely a cyber attack is, if so why do they not offer more incentives for new security professionals.    I find it frustrating... more
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