Speaker 1: 0:23

Today we're going to talk about a couple of different resources. I'm going to talk about my favorite, favorite, favorite resource, which a lot of people sleep on. So if you're not familiar with the MWR Digital Library, you're going to learn today. And then we're going to touch base on just some different opportunities. We have quite a few folks jumping on the call before we kick off. Just note ACMA Education is a 501c3 nonprofit. All the funds that we receive and get 100% of it goes back to the military community. Everyone on my team is volunteers so, including myself, no one's paid on our staff. This is what we do because we're passionate with it, so please keep that in mind when you reach out to us or you need something. It's not like we have a full-time team supporting this endeavor. It's more so like whatever time we can do this or however we can do this, we try to put our energy and effort to it. I do spend a lot of hours doing this, but overall, collectively, I still got a full-time day job, still got full-time businesses that I'm running, my family and then anything else that I'm working on to include ACNA education. So we're going to put out a quick survey just so you can understand what we got. So if you're a first-time attending, please let us know. If you're a pre-offender, shout out to repeat we need a repeat offender t-shirt. We need a repeat offender t-shirt, we need a repeat offender t-shirt and a loyal attendee t-shirt. We need to get those two uh in the mix. Some act now t-shirts, um, uh, so I think that would be dope, uh. And then, yeah, let us know.

Speaker 1: 2:01

We got a lot of veterans in the building. Shout out to all the veterans, veteran veteran spouses. We got a few National Guard, a few Reservists. Got some active duty in the building. Good, good, good, that's awesome. And then everyone just want to know what resources can help them upskill. Some people are looking for job opportunities. That's good, that's awesome. Let me just do a quick roll call. Do we have Nolan on the chat?

Speaker 2: 2:34

Don't see him, let me just type in I'm here. Sorry, I was trying to get my mic on, okay.

Speaker 1: 2:38

Awesome Is Vertforce in the building. Today, katie's here.

Speaker 3: 2:43

Hi Jay.

Speaker 1: 2:51

Okay, awesome and then is it. Vets in Tech is vets in tech doing something today?

Speaker 4: 2:55

no, no, okay, we can post, we can talk about that talk to links.

Speaker 1: 2:57

All right, you'll talk to links. All right. So the order will be we will touch base with katie and you'll hear from Burt Force, then you'll hear from Amazon, from Nolan, from Amazon, then Anwar will talk a bit about Vets in Tech and then I'll get into the resource of the day, essentially learning more about MWR Digital Library, and on the hour, if we're good at it, we will share the resources for the Coursera account, give you access to the Splunk and then the Career Compass. Today we're going to do something a little bit different from Career Compass, so we're going to try something new, just to see if it works. If it doesn't, then we'll go back to our own process. But I just want to test something out and then we'll go from there. All right, right, cool, starting off with Katie, you're up on first.

Speaker 5: 3:51

Awesome. Hi, jay, hi everybody, thank you for having me. I am Katie Castillo, the community expert at VertForce, and for those of you who don't know who we are, vertforce is a military spouse owned and operated company and our entire purpose is helping military spouses, veterans, other military-affiliated members to find remote or portable careers. We do that through resources, employer events, educational events, tips, resources, all the things and, first and foremost, a job board. So we have a job board. I'm going to drop some links in the chat for you. I usually just like kind of throw them all out there for you at once, just because it makes it easier. So I'm going to put those in the chat for you. Hopefully it goes. But we have a job board. So that's jobsvertforceus. It is a free job board. Everything we do is free for military spouses, veterans, everybody. But we have a job board. It is a private job board, so not just any job can post on there. They're all vetted, legitimate jobs with military-friendly employers. But you do have to make an account there so you can see all of the job postings. If you don't make an account, you'll only see like a little snippet of them. So make sure that you do make an account so you can see all of the jobs. So we've got those on there. You can browse those. We've got all the information you could need on there. Hopefully you don't need anything else from there, but if you do, you can always reach out to us. We're happy to help. We have a Facebook group where we share networking tools and resources, tips Great place for crowdsourcing much like the ActNow community as well. Um, you can join there. If you have questions about jobs, that's a great place to ask about that. Um.

Speaker 5: 5:32

Couple events that I wanted to mention today that we have upcoming Um. We have a Home Buying 101 class coming up on August 26th. Um, this is like I said, all of our resources are free, so this is a free class for you guys. It's a great, um great chance to talk to experts. We're going to go through basically like from start to finish on steps for home buying, a roadmap for you, misconceptions, common home buyer mistakes, how to avoid them, things like that. Plus, there will be Starbucks and Stanley giveaways at that live event.

Speaker 5: 6:04

And then on September 18th, we have another employer event coming up. It's Coffee and Connect with Imagine360. If you don't know who Imagine360 is, they are a very, very, very military-friendly, remote-first healthcare company. So there's obviously going to be some clinical positions that they have, since they are a healthcare company. But they do have lots of other roles as well customer tech, everything like that. So we're going to be doing an employer event with them. They're going to be highlighting a few available roles that they have, talking about what the company is. You get a chance to talk to the recruitment team, which is pretty awesome. There will be Starbucks gift card giveaways at that event.

Speaker 5: 6:41

And then the last link you'll see that I posted is our YouTube. We go live on our YouTube every single week to talk about jobs, events and resources, tips, things like that. But if you are looking for jobs or you're looking for information on how to get your LinkedIn going, if your resume tips whatever it is we share a ton of videos on that YouTube. It's a great place to find more information, get resources and get yourself ready for the job search. So I'm not going to take up any more of your time. I'm going to drop those links one more time. If you guys do have questions, feel free to reach out in the chat. I'll be hanging out in there for a little while and I hope to see you all at our upcoming events, so thank you for having me.

Speaker 1: 7:21

Thank you, katie, for your assistance and thank you for sharing your information and resources. Make sure you connect with vert force, like I said they're, with what? Everything that's going on in the current job market. It is good to have options. Um, there are very few and far between opportunities to do remote work. Um, as this whole return back to the office, uh, um, focus is happening. So if you are very interested in that, make sure you have them listed, bookmarked and dialed in. All right, enough of that. On to the next one. Now we have Nolan from Amazon AWS and he will be talking about opportunities that, if you are interested in, are ready for you right now. So make sure you have your pen and paper and you're able to take some notes or follow the links that he drops as he shares those for his spiel. So, nolan, the floor is yours.

Speaker 2: 8:18

Okay, appreciate it. Really excited to be here as AWS, amazon, continues to focus on military and military spouse talent. So my name is Nolan Evans. I am a recruiter at AWS, specifically in the data center space. Data center space is super hot right now as we continue to build out data centers globally and across the country, really powering artificial intelligence. That's really. The new focus is on the cloud computing for AI.

Speaker 2: 8:51

Three main roles that we hire for is our engineering operations technicians. They are the building maintenance people. They do all the power systems, mechanical systems, all the HVAC systems. So we have great success hiring former military, know former military, like Navy nukes, electricians, mates, machinists, mates a lot of success hiring people out of the aviation mechanic you know field. So that is one job that we have a big push, especially in the Northeast Virginia Baltimore area. And we do utilize people with clearance also.

Speaker 2: 9:29

So a lot of our data centers are in what's called GovCloud and require that people that work in the building have either a top secret or even there is facilities where the requirement is top secret with a full scope polygraph. So we definitely have positions that you can utilize security clearance if you already have that. We also have our infrastructure delivery technicians. So they are responsible for doing all the server installs and rack installs and a lot of the networking side of things. I've had a lot of success pulling, you know, people transitioning from positions that were relevant, you know, in IT spaces, in the military. And then also we have our DCO technicians. They are the hardware break-fix team, so another IT-based field where they're troubleshooting all the servers, routers, switches, things like that. Again, both those roles too.

Speaker 2: 10:22

We do utilize people with top-secret clearance and top-secret with a full-scope poly Not a requirement but certain facilities. Again, we do have those opportunities and the compensation does go up when you're utilizing your security clearance. So the best thing to do if you're interested or know someone that's interested, I'm going to drop my LinkedIn profile, also my email, and you can just email me directly if you would Just reference ActNow. That way I can kind of report back to Jay on any success we're having with candidates that are utilizing his services that were connected through him. So appreciate the time and thanks again, jay.

Speaker 1: 11:03

Absolutely. And please know, folks, we are doing this because we care about the community. There is no kickback, there is no hook us up. There's more so, like I'm trying to help you get jobs and opportunities and dig in my network and see who can help you no-transcript and it helps me gauge whether or not we should continue working with the company, and so I'll give you an example TechSystems.

Speaker 1: 11:40

Techsystems by far has hired the most people from the ActNow community that I know of. The second to that is Microsoft, and then I don't know what the third company would be, but tech systems by far like time and time again, and the salaries range from anywhere between like 90 K to 240 K. And so when we work with organizations like that, it helps me understand like, okay, I will put more effort in. You know, establish that relationship so that we can bring you organizations like that. It helps me understand like, okay, I will put more effort in, you know, establish that in relationships so that we can bring you folks like that. So AWS VertForce has hired folks as well. So make sure you touch base with these organizations, find out what opportunity they have and then go from there.

Speaker 1: 12:20

All right, Anwar. What do we have or what is going on in the vets in tech space?

Speaker 4: 12:32

Not a whole lot, all right okay, no, but uh, you know, basically for vets in tech, you know steve marlois sometimes comes and he shares some classes and opportunities, but, um, I'll drop his linkedin here. You know, this is another organization that we like to support because they have resources for education, employment and entrepreneurship. Okay, so just get on their websites and usually they're, you know, especially here, with the steve always sharing a link. It's for somebody who's trying to learn about aws. They have classes for aws. Um, security plus courses for anybody who's trying to get their security plus certification. It will pay for your voucher, for your test voucher for that, so you don't have to come out of pocket for it.

Speaker 4: 13:26

And you know, pmp he was mentioning pmp last time. I don't know if their courses are full or not, but anyway, his email is going to be posted in the chat right now and then also just hit him up for anything else about employment. They have access to platform called Upline where you can just create your profile and they're aligned to your military rank and years of experience with MOS and everything like that, and there's jobs that are posted there, namely also Amazon and AWS and whatnot. But of course, sometimes when you're hooked up with someone, you can go straight to the source, so you can also DM or connect with Nolan, for example, somebody else like this, and he's, you know, just mentioned ActNow and he's going to know you and you already got something of a conduit. Okay, but this is all different resources that you can leverage in order to get some type of good position.

Speaker 1: 14:37

Absolutely Speaking of that, nolan, if you have, I know you already did, but can you drop your LinkedIn in the chat so that people can connect with you via linkedin as well? All right, all right, folks, the moment you all been waiting for, um, actually, let me share this first and then I'll go into, uh, the resource. So here is. This is the rundown for today. So majority of you are first timers, so that's good. I'm glad you guys are here. You're in the right place. You're going to learn something. I promise that. And then, like I said, veterans are coming in strong, so shout out to all the veterans in the space. Like I said, we will talk about some skills and I'll touch base on some of these things. We will talk about some skills and I'll touch base on some of these things. I'm going to give you a kind of a hint. Or, if you are interested in taking advantage of some certs, we have some search programs that we're currently working on. One of them is an AI program that is focused on compliance. As AI expands, there is a large body of how, does you know you develop a pathway where you can rely on it, not necessarily like the hallucinations of AI and getting incorrect data and feedback. So there is a CERT program that we are pretty much going to be dropping, are pretty much going to be dropping, I want to say, towards third quarter, fourth quarter, it's going to be roughly around November timeframe, november, october timeframe and it's going to allow you to go through a series of certifications all for free. This is the best part. It's all free, but we only have 500 opportunities to do this. That opportunity will only be shared in our newsletter no-transcript newsletter learning about those types of certifications. You will also see and I'm kind of like the cat out of the bag, but you will also see the CSM, the product owner certification, in there too. So we're offering up some slots for the one that we're having in September and that will be shared in the newsletter. So if you are Scrum certified and you're interested in trying to knock out your product owner certification at no cost, it's a good way to do it.

Speaker 1: 17:46

Join that newsletter and then, lastly, you can share this with anybody. If you are looking for direct access to Career Compass, we also have a direct link in there. It's very different from how we do it here, where you sign up, you fill out your information, we create your account. That's just the way we do it on the. On the um we can't do that, but with the code thing on the newsletter. So what we do is we share a link to it and you just have to create your own account. Um, just as long as information is correct, it'll get processed and you'll you'll be able to access it and so benefits of of being a part of what we do and how we do it. Every day we try to expand, every day we try to get better. So that's just something to kind of share with you guys.

Speaker 4: 18:28

All right now let's go into for everybody else right now who's just excited about this newsletter and wants to sign up for it.

Speaker 1: 18:38

I didn't tell them how to sign up for it. You just go to act now education website and wait a few seconds.

Speaker 4: 18:42

It'll pop up there there's gonna be a pop-up that unless you disable your pop-ups, yeah, if you disable your pop-up, you won't see it, yeah but otherwise you can sign up for the newsletter right there absolutely laurie bell. She said the newsletter is awesome.

Speaker 1: 18:58

So hey, take it from somebody who just read it and uh run with it yeah, yeah, we we just to give you an example like our newsletter is not like everybody else's newsletter. We're doing it intentionally Like you can actually get things from the newsletter other than just reading about things. So we'll have stuff that you can learn about. But on top of that we'll also have opportunities for you to take advantage of so that you can really help move you along in your career. So there's that. All right, this resource is hands down. Like I said, one of my favorite resources that's out there. It's called the DOD MWR Library. A lot of people sleep on it. If you are a retiree, you will have access to this. If you're active duty, you'll have access to this. If you're active duty spouse, you'll have access to this. And I'll kind of go over this. This resource is a bunch of resources kind of put together in a collection to be able to support whatever your needs are.

Speaker 1: 20:03

A lot of people pay for genealogy related information and data. You don't have to, because it's here for free. You can access Ancestrycom. You can access Fold, which is another kind of like. It's pushed by Ancestrycom, but it specifically focuses on military records records. So if you have family members that have been in the military who have now passed on. You can look up their records, figure out when they serve, where they served, how much time did they spend in the military, and then, if there were any wars, it'll have the information in there as well. And so these resources are at no cost. All you have to do is sign up and get access to them. But just think about it, these do cost money outside of the site. So if you actually go to Ancestrycom, you can expect to pay money, but these are free here.

Speaker 1: 20:55

Okay, on top of that, you have a bunch of eBooks and audio books that you can tap into. I'm not going to go through the eBooks and audio books, but there's a lot that you can go in. There's Children's Corner that you can download books as well, that they can read books either to whatever device you want to use. I've used the e-book aspect to read the PDF version of books when I was forward deployed to help me out that way because I didn't have a library. So I just use that to kind of help me get the digital copy of whatever it is. But you'll read it on whatever app it is, so you can't take it off that app.

Speaker 1: 21:28

They got newspapers and magazines. They have everything from Morningstar to National Geographic to Wall Street Journal. You have to understand like all of these things cost money and all these things have different resources that can help you in wherever you're trying to do in your career. If you are focused on learning more about you know what's going on in the global spectrum and you're trying to be better at understanding how tech business affects overall world, the Economist is perfect for you. If you just want to go through digital magazines, the Overdrive Collection has a bunch of digital magazines and foreign policy, like I said, world street journal. They have national geographic and all this stuff is at no cost and really good to be able to utilize. And we still haven't even got to the best part yet. This is um kind of slow rolling in here, but just to let you know that these are really really good resources and I haven't even touched the best aspect yet, right, yeah, science and technology in here.

Speaker 1: 22:28

So if you're interested to do research, if you are in school or currently taking a class, the Gale Science and Research or the Gale Library, like it'll help you pull up different information. I actually use this for one of my one of my master's degrees my thesis because it was asked and in my thesis you had to come up with like a counter argument. And so I searched on here and it was actually a bunch of different counter arguments for different topics, and I had never seen that on any platform where they'll take someone's opinion and then have a counter argument for it. Now, I mean, you can use AI for that as well, but it had directly sourced to different articles and different papers, research papers, and so it was extremely helpful to have that, and so I'm a big fan of Gale. It's phenomenal.

Speaker 1: 23:22

Then we got the children's corner right, and so you got BookFlixora. You got humble bees middle school, elementary, national geographic true flicks. Uh, tutorscom. This is a live tutor that will sit with your children for 30 to 40 minutes teaching them on a particular topic. I use use this to get through my bachelor's degree because I was writing a lot of papers and I wanted someone to verify, like look at my papers, and that's what they did.

Speaker 1: 23:55

Let me see if I can log in so I can show you guys, it is legit. Do I got to do this whole thing? Yeah, I got to do my DOD ID. No, no, I don't want to do this. I want to go directly to tutors, so I don't need to do this aspect. But when you do this, essentially I'll bring you to this page and I'll say provide your DOD ID and your birthday and submit, and then you get authorization If you want to find out whether or not you have access.

Speaker 1: 24:23

This is who has access to it so active duty military, members of reserve components and national guards, retired military, including reserve and national guards, medal of Honor eligible family members who are official, who have official sponsored IDs, and then DOD Coast Guard civilians. So all those folks have access to this, this, this resource. But let me go to I'm just gonna bring it up here tutors no, tutorscom, military. You don't want to go to the regular version because that's not the. This one is for us, the one that says military. There's tutorscom, which you will pay for, and it's this one that doesn't cost any money.

Speaker 1: 25:14

All right, so sign in. Let me see if my link, my sign in, is still good. Let's see. Oh, we in there like swimwear. Look, I haven't used this account in a minute, so I'm happy I still got All right, and it's asking me to save my account.

Speaker 1: 25:29

Let me go back. So I want to show you this. So, just so you can understand, this is my locker and in your locker these are all the essays you worked on, and so these are all the essays that got reviewed. So if you look back, 59 months ago was when I was in my master's degree program Well, no, probably further than that and all of these papers. Imagine having someone help you with your paper and I'm not talking about AI, I'm talking about like an actual person that you can have a dialogue with and then you can have them read it and they can say well, this is what I think you mean from this topic. But these are the directions that you can kind of go and it doesn't even matter. Like it's, it's a whole bunch, but this is all of my papers that I've essentially got through my, my, my master's degree with um I mean my bachelor's degree and my master's degree. Correction, all right, but this is what you can go through.

Speaker 1: 26:22

So if you're looking for a tutor, you come in here, you click on a topic. You could say math, science, english reading, social studies, world languages, computer subjects, business, nursing, advanced placement for AP classes, act, psat, sat, life skills, study skills, parenting, and then GED. So if you're looking for any of these topics, I'm just going to click on math, study skills, parenting and then GED. So if you're looking for any of these topics, I'm just going to click on math, for example, and then I can click on the grade in here anything from kindergarten to college to adults and then the subtopics right here so you can pick on the actual topic. So if I'm like doing a trigonometry class or I'm doing calculus or discrete math or infinite math, I can do that. I can add a video here or add a file here that says whatever the problem I'm working on and they'll bring a tutor for that.

Speaker 1: 27:13

If you are good at being a tutor and like, and you have some like experience, you can also be a tutor for the platform. I personally know that if you are a chemistry tutor, they get paid roughly about $1,500 a month to do tutoring. I don't know about any other field, I just know, because I ran into a chemistry tutor who was on this platform and he he says I think chemistry tutors get paid the most. Um, but I don't. That was like maybe a few months back. All right, but if I wanted to get let's say, if I'm looking into business right, got business in here, got different classes for business, all uh intro classes to help you understand that if you are doing world languages, grammar, writing and reading comprehension, if you are doing and, like I said, this is also for you and your kids, not just your kids as well, this is you and your kids if you have access to the platform. Um, so my daughters were using this and, as you can see, here's my tutors.

Speaker 1: 28:07

I have my list of favorite tutors I had down here, just based off of my sessions working with them, and what other topics let's see. Let's go to science. You just look at the science and you get the different topics in here. So really really good, really good resource. It's free. I would highly recommend you use it. They even have coding in here. So if you're trying to figure out your issue with coding, there's a C++ which is old. C is old. They don't have Python in here, but they do have Java, microsoft PowerPoint if you need help with that and Word or Access. Those things are in there.

Speaker 1: 28:54

This is if you want to plan for a future session. You can set that up. If you just want to drop off your paper for review, that's what I did. I would just drop my paper off, say exactly what I'm looking for, and then I would come back and within 12 hours and my paper would be, you know, redlined and a bunch of comments on it so I can start working on it. If I'm trying to go get my daughters into college, there's some admission help for there and then test prep. So we have practice exams for SAT, act, lsat, mcat, gmat and then AP, nclex for the nurses out there. So you have a bunch of resources and they're all for free. We haven't even gotten into the best part, but this is why MWR Digital Library is one of my favorite resources.

Speaker 1: 29:37

Let me go back. You got all that stuff high class, different classes that you can learn. Let's go back. We were here. Now let's get to the meat of it and continuing education, where I spend majority of my time. Like I said, you have the tutors down here. You have blue careers. Blue careers helps you find jobs, um, and job resources. Uh, mango languages. If you want to learn language, mango languages is on here for free that you can learn language. You can get access to over 70 different languages and learn critical skills over, and so it goes directly to your phone. You can practice on it day in, day out, easy day. O'reilly Media is my go-to resource.

Speaker 1: 30:21

Now there are different tools that you can use to study and prepare for your certification exams, depending on what you're trying to do. This one has been, like I said, go-to. I have to use this or Udemy, and hand-in-hand back and forth. Coursera is good, but Coursera is really focused on the institution-based training. So if an organization or college is providing you training on PMP or some certification, it's related to their curriculum. Whereas O'Reilly is focused on the exam, udemy is focused on the exam and providing you additional content to help you pass Right, and so I'm going to click on O'Reilly so you can see what that looks like.

Speaker 1: 31:05

This is it. This is us being in here, right? And so, o'reilly, when you click on it, you come in here. You can either explore skills so if you're interested in you know, computer, cloud computing, data science, data engineer, aiml, program, languages it's all in here broken down. You could just do start learning. You can go to the live events, interactive learning courses, certification or books, so you can actually just say I want to prep for a certification. Say somebody give me a certification that they want to work on. That's technical, let me see. Let me bring up the chat real fast. Security plus.

Speaker 1: 31:42

All right, security plus it is. So I'm going to come in here, click on that. As you see, there's a list of different certifications in here. I can come here, go to the vendor, I can click on CompTIA and then I can say Security Plus it's down there, right. And then I can did I click on it? Yeah, I did click on it, all right. And then I can say format. All of this is different formats so I can ask for a book related to it. I can get a certification guide. I'm going to click on the guide because I'm going to show you a quick hack Guide is the truth Practice test video and stuff like that. So if you want to click on certification guide right, click on this. What the guide has. The guide has all of that in one Right. So if I had to just focus laser in for a week or two on one one particular, you know resource, this is a good resource to do it.

Speaker 1: 32:42

So you have, you know, comptia Security Plus the class, and this is just a live intro on the class. This is coming up so you can jump on this class 11 and 12. It's from noon to four, right? So even if you don't know anything about Security Plus. You got a class that you're about to enroll in for free, that starts in a few days, that you can knock out right, and then you can follow back up with the crash course, right, which is happening at the end of the month. So you can take what you've learned here, take some good notes right, study the material that you've been studying and then at the end come back and take another class and like, okay, is this resonating with me? Did I learn enough? Did I get the stuff that I needed to get right? And then you have this, the comp t is sec plus. This is the 27 hour instructional video. And you see, this is all syo 701, which is the latest uh, security plus. And so you got different resources that you can use all under one, not paying any money for this um, and you can kind of prepare yourself for any certification that's out there, and it's going to best help give you a leverage or upper hand on it, right.

Speaker 1: 33:52

So I got this, this class I'd taken. Then I went back to take this class and then now I have the on-demand course that I'm going to take in between that. And then I got the certification exam, cram, which is a book that's going to help me build my confidence. I can finish that video not book, but a video. I can get through that video in an hour and 34 minutes. And then I'm going to go through the SERP guide for CompTIA and then I'm going to hit the total course that goes through every single thing again. That's another 20 hours that I got.

Speaker 1: 34:20

And then I'm going to hit the top CompTIA Security Plus Practice Test, 3rd Edition. A bunch of different pages on there. I can click on that, go through the questions, slowly, understand it. By that time I should have a good understanding of the topics. I should have a good understanding. Nothing should surprise me, it's just more so refining my skill set so I can be able to pass this exam. And then I'll get into the third edition, another book that's 634 pages. I don't know if I need all that, but I do have that as an option. And then I'm going to go down to another book, right, which is, and I'll probably.

Speaker 1: 34:54

At this point I'm just going through the exams, the practice exams, and I'm trying to get familiar with making sure that there's something I don't know. I can double back on that. And then, lastly, the Pearson's practice test. I can tell you for personal experience these tests are a lot harder than the actual exams. So if you score like a 50 on a Pearson's practice exam, be prepared because you're going to blow that test out of the water. Their tests are a lot harder.

Speaker 1: 35:18

In my experience I've always been like damn, I'm not ready to take this test whatsoever. And then I end up taking a test and I blow it out of the water. I'm like man. That Pearson test had me nervous. So if you do really well, then you're ready to go. But imagine that. Now think about this. Let me see from the chat Do you think you have better odds of passing an exam if you're using a resource like this? Put in the chat, let me know. Put a. Put a yes in the chat, put a no, or if you don't believe so.

Speaker 1: 35:49

So this is the reason why, like, knowledge is so important, because you just don't know what resources are out there that can really impact or change your career and help you align. One thing to note uh, if you are like I don't know for other services, I do know the Navy has a way that you can also get this outside of the MWR digital library. Um, but also if you are like a part of the federal government, typically most agencies have programs where you can get it. So, like the agencies that I work at, where I have worked at, they have all had programs where I can actually get access to the digital not the digital library, but O'Reilly Media directly and I can start studying for exams, and so they used to have something called Safari where you get access to it, but then it switched up, so I don't know what it is now, but understand that this information can be extremely impactful if you use it correctly and you use it for exam.

Speaker 1: 36:50

That way, you're not taking and spending time trying to look at YouTube university to not saying there's nothing wrong with YouTube, but YouTube is YouTube, right? You, you, you you'll study or look at one video and then five hours later you end up watching some troll video uh of troll video, of them doing a song and dance and you're like how the hell did I get to the troll video from studying? It's just the way that YouTube algorithm works. It just distracts you to keep you on YouTube watching something else that has nothing to do with what you came on there for and you totally forgot what you were there, for I don't know if anyone's been on down that road, but I've been down that road many a times. I'm like came there to study the vietnam era and then I end up on, uh, watching something about denzel washington in the news, or something like that.

Speaker 9: 37:38

How did I get here?

Speaker 1: 37:39

I was. This is crazy youtube, but so, if you're interested, use it has a lot of certifications, mainly technical certifications. So I will caveat that they do have SHRM, so HR certifications, but the list goes on. Let me go back to the cert, so you can see, but these are all the different certification vendors and, like I said you can tell, most of them are mainly mainly, you know, technical certifications. We got Scrum in here, so we click on Scrum.

Speaker 1: 38:15

You got some guides and information in here that you can use as well. So take advantage of that Easy day. And then, if you look as well, if you're trying to do the Splunk right, because we have access to Splunk, well, if you're trying to do the splunk right because we have access to splunk, you could take their practice certification user, which is a cert that we provide for free. Um, they got a practice exam in here, so before you actually take it, you can study here, take the exam here and then see how well you do, all for free. Uh, yeah, cssp is on here as well. So if you wanted to go to uh ic2, you can come in here and click on cssp and it's in here. It's all the same stuff. All this, uh, and I'll. I'll even let me show you the guide for this. Which one is the guide? I want the guide. I'm gonna put you on game real fast. Uh, who was that person that asked for that, maurice? So let me put you on game real fast. Who was that person that asked for that, maurice? So let me put you on game real fast. Dean Bushmiller is actually the person who created some of the questions on the CSSP exam, and so this individual here created the test. Help was a part of the group that created the test, so that is the level of skills that you have with the people that's teaching it. He's actually on the platform talking about it and he gives you his own resources. When I've taken the class, he gave us a list of different resources off platform, and so, yeah, great opportunity. But you can see all this stuff in here. It's in here, you can use it. Help you, yeah, all right, but again, all of this stuff is on the MWR digital library. This is where you go, so the MWR digital library. I'm going to share the link with you guys, so you guys have it in the chat. Uh, there goes. Uh, kevin shared it with you. Take advantage of it. Don't sleep on that resource. That's a great resource to have.

Speaker 1: 40:13

I will take a few questions if anyone has any questions related to that. If not, then I will go on to the next thing, which is just sharing our resources and the corsair information and everything else. Uh, any hands raised, or if you, if you put a question in the chat? I was not paying attention to the chat, so just just raise your hand and let me know. That way we can. If you got questions related to what we just talked about. Looks like we got no questions. How do you sign up, terrence, are you? You stunned me with that question. It's on the website on how to sign up for that. It's on the link I will share. Sign up for that. It's on the link. I will share this. Here you go, there's a link, you go there. That's how you sign up. That's the first part of that. Good question, jen. What question do you have?

Speaker 10: 41:19

So question are there any programs or websites that can give us like hands-on training or hands-on labs for IT and cybersecurity? Because one of the main things that I already have the search is just one of the main things that is kind of an obstacle for me is the fact that I lack the experience. So I am in an IT job. Technically I'm an IT asset manager, so only times I ever actually utilize my help desk skills is just re-imaging things whenever there's an emergency, but that's like not often. So you know, I just want something where I can put on my resume that I have, like this project done or such and such, but the downside is like things like downside is like things like uh, who's it defend the box?

Speaker 1: 42:30

uh, hack, react, not hack the box.

Speaker 10: 42:31

Hack the box, capture the flag yeah, stuff like that, like it's somewhat like I got recommended those, but then I saw the price and it's like I'm like is there anything like cheaper or cheaper out or free for veterans?

Speaker 1: 42:47

there are definitely non um ones that do not cost money, like so just just just just be aware of that. Like um, yeah, somebody just mentioned before, try to hack me. Those do not cost money, so don't try to like if somebody's trying to get you to pay for something first, let's do a little bit more research, go ahead.

Speaker 9: 43:10

My name is Irvin Frenzel. I actually oversee several undergraduate cyber programs. I would actually recommend you do the CCT through EC Council CCTV. No CCT Certified.

Speaker 10: 43:22

Cybersecurity Technician, the cct through ec council.

Speaker 9: 43:26

Cctv no cct certified cyber security technician oh sir, okay, cct it's actually an ancy accredited certification. Um, the reason I recommend it is they actually have close to 85 or 90 labs that are actually done in AWS. Okay, so you're not yeah, you're not actually going out there and just going. Oh, hey, you know, this is a simulation where there's only click, click, click and there's only one possible route. It's actually when it spins up Ubuntu server. It's a full scale Ubuntu server.

Speaker 10: 44:00

Okay.

Speaker 9: 44:01

And you can do everything that you would do on a normal server, because it's a full-blown VM and it actually walks you through the process of doing the actual labs and hands-on component pieces. But they have everything from introduction to digital forensics, to digital hacking, to network defender, to pretty much any of the courses, but in that particular situation you're going to go down the hands-on process capability.

Speaker 1: 44:27

Are you active or what are you?

Speaker 10: 44:32

I am active.

Speaker 1: 44:33

I'm sorry, which one of us? Jen Jen. Yeah, Jen, are you active or are you reserved?

Speaker 10: 44:40

No, I just got out.

Speaker 1: 44:42

You just got out. Okay, I was going to say C3 is another resource that you can utilize, but you do have to be active for that one. But just to go back to the site, if you come back to O'Reilly, you click on labs. They have labs and sandboxes in here, and so you can learn some of the things that's in here. And then I know for and this is the sandboxes.

Speaker 1: 45:08

so you can try any of the sandboxes and if you're not familiar with sandboxes, it's essentially the same thing, like a boot-through server or whatever it is, and it allows you to do test development in it, depending on what it is that you're trying to do. So if you want to just kind of learn more about it and get some experience, it's best to also build out your portfolio. So if you don't have like a GitHub portfolio, to start like putting some of these projects together, it'll be a good aspect and opportunity. I would also recommend two other aspects for experience. Right, experience is sometimes kind of hard to come by. You can always build your home lab, which is always a good thing, cause then you can talk about it, get experience of building your own network within your house. Um, but in terms of like being able to help and use your experience, you can do that with, uh, nonprofit organizations.

Speaker 1: 46:01

A lot of nonprofit organizations don't have the manpower or the funding to have the technical expertise and support that's needed, and so they usually have somebody that helps them with that.

Speaker 1: 46:12

To give you an example, mario Simons, who's on our board.

Speaker 1: 46:16

He's a pen tester for Act Now Education, and so, because we deal with so much PII, we made sure that we had a pen tester that can actually test the things that we do and how we do it, so that the information is not leaked to anyone else, because we don't share our information with outside entities.

Speaker 1: 46:34

And so he's obviously doesn't need experience, but he's more so helping a nonprofit do something that we wouldn't be able to do Right, and so you can use that and find opportunities to kind of get experience and start doing project based work for nonprofits in that regard, the other aspect I would say is, if you look into Vets in Tech I'm not sure which program it is, let me see if I can find it but uh, I know that vets in tech is partnered with cloud veterans. I don't know cloud veterans, cloud guru, and cloud guru has a bunch of aws labs in it. Like you actually practice on the aws labs as well, and, um, if you're looking for experience, say again no, jay um, they have access to pluraluralsight, but Pluralsight is only for the Security Plus students.

Speaker 2: 47:26

And it has some labs.

Speaker 4: 47:28

So for Jen, the one thing I would just say, and we'll let Tom and others say, but for me, what I would advise you just to look at right now and do some introspection, because what you mentioned, I want to get hands-on IT, cyber and everything that's common. Everybody wants to do this. But again, my advice to everybody you cannot just say I want to do hands-on and cyber. What is cyber? There's like 50-plus roles in there. What do you want to learn? And everything has its own climbing ladder to it.

Speaker 4: 48:01

Just last week I was talking to to somebody and he just this in his first year in in college and he's like I want to get into digital forensics, what? And? And then he's like what is digital forensics? I want to get into digital forensics. And we're like dude, take it in steps, man, all right, don't tell me that you just raise your hand to go at you know, um, uh, you know to enroll in the military and you want to say I want to become a sergeant in by the end of the year. You haven't even gotten in the military. You know, I don't know about your level of knowledge and things like this, but basically, take it in steps. You know I'm saying and so, for example, like you know, if you have access to, for example, o O'Reilly, yeah, try it.

Speaker 4: 48:46

Play around in some lab, but know what you want to do, because you're going to go there, and it's what he was just showing you. There's labs about Azure, gcp. You know AWS, apache, kafka, sql, mysql, postgresql, big data, everything. Ok, what do you want to learn? All right, you understand me. Mysql, postgresql, big data, everything. Okay, what do you want to learn? All right, you understand me, yeah.

Speaker 10: 49:08

And that's the thing. I know specifically what direction I want to take vulnerability assessment but I think a lot of the walls I've been like running into is what you mentioned Like they have a whole broad uh uh arsenal full of tools but I don't even know what direction or which one.

Speaker 4: 49:40

If I was, if I was you, if I was you right now, I don't know if you're in college right now, for example, if you're in college right now. I said a couple of times we are in 2025. Ai is in full bloom. Okay, ai is in full bloom Meaning you know, as a student, you know Google is providing free access to students until next year to Gemini. At least that's one LLM that you have access to for free. You don't have to pay the $20 a month and then you can ask for different things.

Speaker 4: 50:17

Okay, I want to learn vulnerability management. Create, you know, a 30-day plan for me to learn vulnerability management. What's involved in it? Okay, do you have you learn you know nexus? Okay, how do I learn nexus or whatever other platform for vulnerability management that you try to play with? Okay, I'm sure tenable has, you know nexus, has their, uh, has their, you know, free edition or community edition or whatever. Somebody else might have another one. There might be another open source and just it's about skills. Okay, it's about you having because have those job descriptions. Again, I'm not a recruiter. Maybe Nolan or anybody else would say, you know, they would ask for, like, knowledge of something. Okay, unless they say, expert knowledge in Python, and you have to be a coder. You know Python coder for 25 years and have a PhD in nuclear physics and be a submariner for 35 years and you know things like that, building your skills. But I mean yeah.

Speaker 10: 51:32

Okay, yeah, that is helpful.

Speaker 4: 51:37

Hopefully. So I mean anybody else, I think Tom or anybody. Jerry had their hands up. Yeah, jerry had their hands up.

Speaker 1: 51:47

Yeah, Jerry had his hands up. Go ahead, Jerry.

Speaker 8: 51:58

Thank you, missed our question. Do you know? Is that ACNAL have a collaborative with organizations that help people to volunteer? In order to have the answer on that means I want to ask you. So ACNAL?

Speaker 1: 52:19

and I can speak from this, so ACNAL by itself does that. So, if you partake in our um, but we don't do that with, like, cyber security just yet. We are looking to do that with the ai program, but we currently do that with the scrum program. So every time we've ran scrum, we've actually, uh, giving the folks something to to actually work a set. So, because we have a large community, we have a large audience and it means something more if you can go to an employer and say that, yeah, I've helped create this or develop this tool or, you know, did this thing that affected 80,000 folks, so we do that. So, for the folks that are about to start the CSM course, on the 8th and the 9th of this month, they'll be working on a project for us to be able to help do something, and so we do that.

Speaker 1: 53:12

And, but in terms of like working with other organizations, not so much because, like I said, we are all part time I mean essentially, like I said, volunteers and so we don't, we don't have the capacity to reach out to a lot of organizations to see what they have going on. In terms of the resources, we can find those things, but when it comes to like trying to develop those relationships to to be able to do that. We would like to do that, but we definitely need a full time crew to be able to do that. That makes sense. Thank you.

Speaker 1: 53:40

All right, cool, awesome. We got two other questions and then we can share the resources. So, mike, what you got.

Speaker 11: 53:50

Thanks, yeah, so I may be getting ahead of ahead of the brief, but when I attended a couple of years ago, there was a great resource guide. It had, you know, a laundry list of if you wanted help with your resume or with interviews or things like that. Is that something that we'll get at the end to be able to access again?

Speaker 4: 54:08

It's available on a platform. If you go on an app, now that you'll be able to download it from there.

Speaker 1: 54:14

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 54:15

So we have.

Speaker 1: 54:15

We have, yeah, we have two ways to do that. So the career compass is one of them, and then the other way is our, our notebook. I would drop the notebook in here so you can have that for those who like the PDF version. But this is just a snapshot, or a snippet of the resources that are available to you. So let's see notebook. Here we go. So let me drop this in here in the chat. You'll see it there so you can use that.

Speaker 1: 54:49

That has a lot of good information in there. While I'm at it, I'm going to drop the military spouse guy for our military spouses in here. This is created by military spouses in our community. These are projects that were created by people who did scrum, like the scrum project. This military spouse guy was a scrum project, um and so, but the first one was us creating that. Uh, here is something else I wanted to share with that. What was the other thing? Oh, also, if you feel like, um, you know, there's resources out there that you're just looking for, or resources that you can share, please feel free to share those resources with us as well, and then we'll just we'll put that information out to the community, as long as there are no cost resources, we don't have a problem sharing it. So that's kind of our go-to thing.

Speaker 1: 55:41

Does everyone feel like this information has been helpful or is it like not useful? I know we've got a lot of people on the call. I just want to see what your guys' intake on some of the stuff that we've covered today. Awesome, awesome. Well, with that being said, sliding right into it, if you feel like this information is helpful, please write us a review. That'll help us out a lot. We use this to kind of help us get more certification opportunities, speak to employers and, you know, use this as ammunition to be able to bring back different opportunities. So please feel free to write a review. I will drop the link in there, or Kevin will drop the link in there before I get to it. Most of the time, there he goes. But yeah, please feel free to write a review for Act Now Education. We greatly appreciate it. Thank you, let me see. Oh, that's the connect one. Let me share the review one. Hello sir, yes.

Speaker 15: 56:41

Yes, I thank you for what you're doing. I was trying to. I know you have a lot of information here, but I was trying to let Jen, the lady that was talking earlier. I posted three links that she could benefit from. I posted in the chat and, for anyone else that's interested, it will help her for what she's doing or what she's trying to do, and they're all free, of course.

Speaker 1: 57:04

So I put it in there for anyone that wants to look at it. Can you share that one more time? Uh, we'll let you drop that in there and then we will put that out there. Sure we'll do. And then also like uh, I probably need to do a session on linkedin so you guys can like learn how to utilize linkedin.

Speaker 1: 57:18

I am a big advocate of linkedin. Um, it it's more than just a social media platform. It's a tool that you can use to help you land a job, help you find a job, help you find opportunities, help you run your business, help you expand your business. But you would take information that you learned from. Just to give you an example, you would take information that you learned from this session. Right, this gentleman is about to share some resources that talk about how to get into, you know, understanding to do labs for tech. That's a struggle that a lot of people have, right? And you put that information on your LinkedIn and say, hey, this is something I just did, I experienced this. This information is good, hope this helps you. You put that information out there. You're not helping other folks, and then other folks tend to look at your profile or tend to look at what you offer or the things that you share about.

Speaker 1: 58:06

My following has grown substantially because I do that Right, and that's also brought me other opportunities. I'm talking about people who've asked me to do anything from hey, jay, can you speak for fifteen thousand dollars to do this thing or can you talk on these topics? All because of the activity on linkedin not any other platform, only on linkedin. We do make money on other platforms, but linkedin is like my go-to, so I would highly recommend if you are trying to grow your brand or you're trying to make sure you spend time to do that.

Speaker 1: 58:35

Linkedin is extremely powerful and, as you see, I hear a lot of people um, especially within the ic community talk about well, I'm not on social media because I don't want to have my information out there and I don't want people to know what I'm connected to and anything like that. Go look at my profile. You can't tell where I work at. So if you say that I'm a cryptologic warfare officer, I have a TS clearance. I work in some places that require you to get in several doors. You need badges and access and codes and stuff like that, and so if I can do that, and I can do it. Where I'm not like highlighting that aspect of my career, you can do it as well, so just keep that in mind.

Speaker 2: 59:17

You mind if I jump in real quick from a recruiter perspective. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2: 59:21

Yeah. So a lot of people probably don't really realize how kind of the backend of LinkedIn works for LinkedIn recruiter. Linkedin recruiter is a heavily utilized tool for recruiters and one problem that I see a lot of LinkedIn profiles. They really need to read like your resume and the reason for that the LinkedIn recruiter tool. We're searching keywords and things like that, um, and if they're not on your profile, they're not going to come up as as someone's trying to, you know, look for a specific skillset. So, um, I highly encourage people to you know, really, really make their LinkedIn profile as detailed as possible. You know, a lot of times people literally just put a job title in the company they work for and there's no bullet points or anything underneath those. You really want it to read just like your resume and that will allow people to search you out as they're recruiting for talent.

Speaker 4: 1:00:14

Can I add one last small stupid detail to what Nolan said? I've seen it for most of them. A lot of people right now try to use AI to optimize their bullet points and everything. It's okay, it's awesome, it's smart, but please, for the love of little puppies wake up in the morning and waiting for their mama to come and lick them in the face. Please edit and read that. Don't just copy paste, post something in your chat, gpt or something. Please edit and read that. Don't just copy paste, post something in your chat, gpt or something.

Speaker 4: 1:00:45

Just yesterday I was just made you know. Yesterday I was talking to someone. He's getting on the army as an infantry soldier and on his LinkedIn as infantry US Army 2005 to 2025, it says you are, you know, that's what Chad GPT told him to put. You are a weather sensor, you are a master planner, you have planned missions and patrols, and that's what he copied. Okay, stuff like that. So please just edit and make it good for as if you were putting it on your resume and you put it on your LinkedIn.

Speaker 1: 1:01:30

Yeah, I would second that. Just don't go off of everything that's on you know and then learn how to actually use the platform. It's not like Google Learn how to actually use it. We're going to have a session with Tom and some folks the community, uh, here shortly once we get the day coordinated. But for the love of small little kittens that are looking for their mother's milk, uh, in the morning, do it for anwar. For those who don't track, anwar always talks about like puppies or something to that effect. I've just first time ever mentioned it, but this is funny. All right, let's go back to the All right we have. Is this a Sean? Am I saying that right or is it?

Speaker 16: 1:02:17

Yeah, hey, hey, jay, I don't. I don't remember if this end is that two or three, but you didn't mention last. I was in this meeting last week. I signed up to Career Compass, but I don't know if I've. I can't find the link on your website. I don't know, like if I've gotten, like if I'm going to the right places, but I also haven't gotten anything back in my email.

Speaker 1: 1:02:44

Yeah, so I mentioned this and I'll mention it again. So if you created, if you created an account through the career compass, like you filled out the form, your account is created. There's no email that's sent out to you. You just have to go to the career flow with the same email address after Tuesday to create your account.

Speaker 16: 1:03:04

Is there like the link that could be shared? Careerflow CareerFlow.

Speaker 4: 1:03:09

CareerFlow Appcareerflowai.

Speaker 1: 1:03:13

Yeah, I'll share it with you. But all right, thank you. No worries, who else we have. We have a this pal. You're on the line with Anwar and Jay. How can we have? You're on the line with Ann Warren, jay, how can we help you?

Speaker 10: 1:03:31

hi, I'm I'm looking to see if there's any resources for law to go into law, specifically like for paralegal for military spouse.

Speaker 3: 1:03:51

Are you active duty military?

Speaker 10: 1:03:54

No my husband is a veteran.

Speaker 1: 1:04:01

Let me do this let me do this.

Speaker 9: 1:04:05

Hey, jay, I know that there's some lawyers that have signed up for in uh mill.

Speaker 1: 1:04:10

Mentor, of what I've heard oh, yeah, look at that, look, look, tom tom comes through in a clutch. I totally look folks. We run so many programs I I don't remember all the programs we create, but we created another program that, if anyone needs help with something really specific, no mentor is a good resource and tool to be able to use. It's a platform that we spent some time on because, like I said, a lot of people were reaching out to me asking me to do one on ones and I'm not able to do that anymore ones and I'm not able to do that anymore. Uh, and it's a something that bothers me a lot, because this is the reason why I was started doing this is so I can be able to share my, my knowledge with folks. But created mill mentor instead so that you can speak to other people who have experience and knowledge, and so this is the platform here. You just come to the website. It'll tell you everything about what it is the need, why we started. You know and there I am, there's Peter and there's Nicole, there's my team that we created the Mill Mentor platform.

Speaker 1: 1:05:16

You sign in and then in here here, if you come down to let me go to switch to mentee, you can come in here and you can search by industry, right. So legal services, you can click on that. But you have media, entertainment, nonprofit transportation, hospitality, tourism. You can click on one of these industries and it'll bring up folks in that particular industry. You can search by company and these are the folks that have joined, or mentors from certain companies, so you can touch base with them.

Speaker 1: 1:05:52

If you're looking to be able to touch base so, let's say, for Amazon, you want to touch base with folks at Amazon, these folks are also at Amazon. So let's say, for Amazon, you want to touch base with folks at Amazon, these folks are also at Amazon. So you can say, hey, just let me know, and this person has helped a lot of people and he has employment opportunities. Then the other thing you can also do is connect by if they have opportunities to employment, if they're veteran military spouses or their business founder or they have access to Skill bridge opportunities. And then the last thing is topics if you need help with transition, career journey, ask about job education, startup interview prep resources, job search tips, all this stuff. Now guess how much we charge you to use this platform to still free 99. So use your resources.

Speaker 15: 1:06:41

I don't want to have to.

Speaker 1: 1:06:42

I don't want to have to create anything else because I think I've created. We've created enough. But use your resources that you can be able to take advantage of this and if you want to be a mentor on this platform, please sign up to be a mentor. We are always looking for mentors. I'm trying to get Nolan to sign up as a mentor so that he can have you can reach out to Nolan directly and get job opportunities directly on here. So this is a free resource, great opportunity, mill Mentor and within the first two months or month of us starting this, people have gotten jobs off of connecting mentors, connecting with mentors on here.

Speaker 4: 1:07:17

So tell them if uh dependents are able to sign up or who's?

Speaker 1: 1:07:23

oh yeah, yeah yeah, so, yeah, so that it's the military community with at large. So the dependents, veterans, transition service members, uh, national guard reservists, uh, military spouses, um, and active duty, you can all sign up. There's no limitation in here. Um, I would just say the dependent must be like like, um, a working age, working age like it's not like like 12 year old, like on here, um, if so, it's best that the parent signs up and then help them whatever they're trying to help them with. But, yeah, and then on here, if you want to know who has the most impact and effect, here are the folks that do so. So we have Bruce Thompson, who is 1,100 hours of mentorship. This man is. That's why I don't know. This is not even a race. Bruce Thompson is way out there. He has spent more time than anyone else doing one-on-ones helping people and he's super, super, super knowledgeable.

Speaker 4: 1:08:28

Somebody was asking I'm sorry to disrupt you Somebody was asking about finance and things like that. Okay, yeah, no. Because you're sharing the screen.

Speaker 4: 1:08:36

Somebody was asking him about finance and things like that. Okay, how to get answers in there? Yeah, no, because you're sharing the screen. All right For whoever's interested in banking and finance. David Trenholm, unfortunately, is a Navy guy. He's a VP at bank of America, all right. So somehow he became successful despite being in the Navy. But it's okay, we need all kinds, but he's at Bank of America, all right.

Speaker 4: 1:09:01

So talk to a variety of different folks, people, okay, even if you don't know. But my advice, I'm just giving out small advice. Giving out small advice, let's say, whoever I forgot, who posted about wanted to get into, whoever wanted to get into finance, all right, you want to talk to David Trenholm? This is a VP, all right, not making it bigger than anything, but still you understand what we're talking about here, meaning this guy's got a lot of responsibilities, a lot of stuff. He's making his time available for you, so what you need to maximize your interaction with him. If I was you, I would get on chat, gpt or Gemini or whatever, and start having a conversation back and forth about you know, I want to get into this career and what's related to it and what's required. And oh, by the way, I am meeting up with David Trenholm. Here's his profile from LinkedIn. What kind of questions could I ask him in order to maximize my hour with him? Yeah, and then later on.

Speaker 4: 1:10:09

You can have another follow-on session with him. For folks who want to get into IT, cyber, whatever, there's like this guy, you know.

Speaker 1: 1:10:19

David Hart.

Speaker 4: 1:10:19

Fisher, and then, like here, even in here, you have Kevin Dessler. Okay, who's you know?

Speaker 1: 1:10:30

Who's on both sides. He's helping people and helping people learn Like look, this is Okay, you have.

Speaker 4: 1:10:36

David Muhammad here people and helping people learn like look, this is okay, you have, you have. You have david muhammad here. He's fresh up, you know, like army guy, 22 years at at&t and so on and so forth. All right, you have a bunch of folks, but please just make it make use of your, of your resources here, guys yeah, look, and lydia latrone.

Speaker 1: 1:10:56

She's known for branding like specializes in branding. Her focus is branding helping people understand. She's a civilian that has been helping people. She's a ted talk speaker, all this stuff like I, we. I mean, I can't go into all the depth, but use these tools because we create them for you to use them, to be able to utilize it, and so please feel free to to get your value out of this. We got like 20 questions that came out of nowhere once we showed this.

Speaker 1: 1:11:21

Well, so let's get back to the original question. Oh, so yeah, if you're looking for the lawyer aspect, you use that to connect with someone that has a legal background. That way, you can probably use as a resource. Other than that, I would probably say uh, you can use chat, gbt or any of the the ais to say come up with some legal resources that can help me prepare for whatever it is that your parent has, apparently or you can connect.

Speaker 4: 1:11:48

You can connect with the lady megan duchess of sussex. She actually used to work as a paralegal for this firm with all harvard lawyers. Okay, for like about eight years before marrying a prince from england, all right it's she actually used to work as a paralegal for this firm with all Harvard lawyers. Okay, for like about eight years before marrying a prince from England. All right, it's perfect Hollywood story yeah.

Speaker 15: 1:12:03

And then All right For anybody who did not pick?

Speaker 9: 1:12:05

up it's a dead joke.

Speaker 4: 1:12:06

Okay, it was a dead, it was a stupid joke, all right.

Speaker 1: 1:12:08

Nobody picked up on.

Speaker 4: 1:12:09

Lady Megan.

Speaker 1: 1:12:10

Peter Peter Klein. Peter Klein he Klein. He's also studying to become a lawyer, and he can provide you with a lot of different aspects as well, so please reach out to him. Peter Klein always does one-on-ones. I don't know how he does it, because he runs Booster Books and does everything else that I'm doing, so just reach out. Thank you. Tammy, you're next.

Speaker 3: 1:12:32

All right, you can barely hear you. Yeah, it's All right, let's have a good evening. I wanted to see if anybody can put a thumbs up. We can barely hear you. You can barely hear me.

Speaker 4: 1:12:41

Yeah, it's a little bit.

Speaker 3: 1:12:42

Okay, go ahead. Okay, we have a thumbs up coming in. Sorry, I wanted to see if anybody in the past has been actively and successfully able to get LinkedIn experience. I heard successfully LinkedIn. Yeah, I'm not fully able to get my LinkedIn premiums in the first place.

Speaker 1: 1:12:59

I heard successfully LinkedIn, yeah, active duty something.

Speaker 4: 1:13:03

It was garbled, If you want to.

Speaker 9: 1:13:04

I'm sorry, if you want to post it in the chat. Yeah, I put it in the chat already. I put all the LinkedIn premiums in the chat. I'll put it in again.

Speaker 1: 1:13:12

Oh the. Linkedin premium Okay.

Speaker 3: 1:13:21

Yeah, the issue is, your idea is still rejecting you as a spouse. Yeah, I had the same issue as well. Okay, okay, I was wondering if it still so. It looks like veterans transition support is who we need to talk to about that, then for linkedin, yeah uh, no, not for LinkedIn.

Speaker 1: 1:13:38

Veteran Transition Support is mainly for Coursera.

Speaker 3: 1:13:41

For Coursera? Okay, because it says the contact viewer. It says they don't give any advice on why they're rejecting us. It's just like the contact viewer they're going to date us.

Speaker 1: 1:13:52

You said LinkedIn is rejecting you.

Speaker 3: 1:13:55

Your ID is rejecting us on behalf of LinkedIn, so you don't need the qualifications and they won't provide any details.

Speaker 1: 1:14:05

Okay. Is it the fact that you're trying to establish like I'm a military spouse on LinkedIn and it's not connecting?

Speaker 3: 1:14:13

No, it's that. We're trying to get the LinkedIn premium for one year.

Speaker 1: 1:14:19

Okay, no, if you were trying to get the linkedin premium for one year, okay, um, let me reach out to my point of contact at linkedin and I will figure this out. Is any other spouse real coming through this experience, trying to get there one year and it's not working?

Speaker 10: 1:14:30

yes, I tried to do it a couple minutes ago and I got the same identification issue.

Speaker 1: 1:14:36

Okay, all right, let me reach out to my point of contact.

Speaker 17: 1:14:39

Sorry to cut you off but what I believe it's like before the PCS you have a one year and after the PCS you have a one year, so it doesn't work in the middle of the tour For a military response. They only get that one year before and after, and it's either before the PCS or after the PCS. Okay, who was that?

Speaker 1: 1:15:04

Samuel Legere. What's going on, samuel? So you're saying that, essentially, if they want to take advantage of it, it's really depending on where they are in their transition aspect?

Speaker 17: 1:15:16

Yes, and that's what I heard. Don't vote me for it.

Speaker 3: 1:15:20

But, Hmm.

Speaker 15: 1:15:23

Okay, the other issue that I had. I remember just doing the same thing to get the LinkedIn for free premium, whatever you can sign up for basic LinkedIn, right, and then you contact the I think it's whoever owns the company that does the verification and they'll contact you back and they'll do it for free, because I remember having that issue myself but I have LinkedIn premium now but you got to get in touch with them through LinkedIn and then they fix it because they have a there's some type of glitch in verification. I don't know why.

Speaker 3: 1:15:57

Okay, Yeah't know why Okay.

Speaker 1: 1:16:01

Yeah, I appreciate that I dropped on the microphone.

Speaker 17: 1:16:03

I think my hand dropped. I was next on the line. Go ahead, Samuel. What's up? So I have a question for the LinkedIn again. I'm an NCI CTR with Pack Fleet. I can't put everything that I do for Backfleet on LinkedIn, you know.

Speaker 1: 1:16:25

You said did you say you're a cryptological collection?

Speaker 17: 1:16:30

CTR. I'm a customer technical representative for NNCR oh okay, all right.

Speaker 1: 1:16:36

And so you're saying that you're trying to representative for NMC? Oh, okay, all right. And so you're saying that you're trying to create a LinkedIn, but you essentially majority of the information that you're putting in there is sensitive.

Speaker 17: 1:16:46

To put all my work and all my stuff in there.

Speaker 1: 1:16:49

it's a little bit to jeopardize my security clearance yeah so the way that you go about that is you take the title of your role and then you will find either job you can use job descriptions or post or information and, like you, still like you use your chat gpt if you want to, but you'll have it create in the unclassed version of that right. And so if, like for me, i'm'm an electronic warfare officer, well, electronic warfare, cybersecurity and SIGINT is my background. I would not put SIGINT on there because I don't want people to automatically deduce that I'm in SIGINT operations, but I would put electronic warfare in the aspect of being able to protect systems and or assets. And then the other thing, for cybersecurity. I would put cybersecurity in there. Now, the thing that I would have probably connected to is something related to project management of that, and so I will create a few PM tracks for what it is that I do, how do I do it, and then the end result.

Speaker 1: 1:17:53

If you actually look online, you'll see that it's like project management for what I currently do, which is acquisitions, and it doesn't go into anything classified, anything in depth. And then also, when you're doing that right and you're creating that cause, essentially it's gonna just take you time, but you wanna make sure that you at least highlight the work that you're doing, not in the aspect that you're doing it. You also want to make sure that you get that push through pubs. I don't know what your organization does, but each organization does have like someone that reviews the information before you release it and then that way it could be thoroughly reviewed and then you'll have any problems releasing the information to put it out there, just to make sure that it doesn't go against anything that the organization doesn't want you to do. When I worked for NSA and when I worked for some of the other three-letter agencies, I did that and it was perfectly fine.

Speaker 17: 1:18:46

It's a little bit like some of the bullets that I did out of my experience.

Speaker 1: 1:18:56

Yeah, you're not going to be able to mention every single thing, but you have to keep it generic enough for people to understand. Like, if you're protecting networks and you're talking about how you protect networks, but not an aspect of like like what the actual, the result is focused on the actual work that you do, so like what is it that the job is called, that you do, the title that you're doing it in, and then how do you break down the components of that? So you did this that led to this and was a result or impact of that, but you're not talking about, like specifically what networks. It's very generic. You're not talking about what networks, who does it impact or what does it affect, what adversariesaries you're working with or adversaries you're working against. You're not listing all that information. You're keeping it really plain.

Speaker 1: 1:19:41

Jane, if I'm doing network defense, I work with protecting 75 different servers for covering. That supports government operations I'm not really talking about and we have, uh, two million incidents a day or whatever I'm, I'm talking about general stuff, not necessarily like getting down into the weeds. Does that make sense? It does, yeah, yeah, it's just the way that you articulate that is on a high level, like, just put it? Put this way if you took, not your supervisor, but like your boss's boss's boss, and he asked you what do you do? You got to dumb it down for them because they wouldn't understand, because your hands on keys so they would not understand anything you're saying, so you have to put it in the most plain language words.

Speaker 17: 1:20:32

It's like if you're explaining it to a 12 year old what is it that you go right to the five bullet points? When it happens, yes, nobody will understand what we're doing, yeah, but it's easy to tell them like, hey, this is what we do, yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:20:49

So, like I said, you put that in there and you can put it in ChatGBT. Like I said, just make sure it's clear first, don't you don't have anything in there, crazy, but put in chat gbt and say how best to articulate the skills that are related to jobs that do this work or what are they like. If I'm a network engineer, write down exactly what it is and then I will drop in what do I do and then have it conveyed into, converted into that. So it's, it's not hard, but essentially it does take some finessing because it's not something that's easily done, especially if you've been doing a job for so long. And, believe me, I know some folks that are in some spaces that they like everything they do is classified. But essentially they're a project management. They're running some type of project. They may not be able to talk about the project, but they have to talk about what the result of the project is. How does their leadership drive that that project and the things that they've done to help significantly make an impact on that project and the timeline related to it. Anyone can talk about that. You could do that with cleaning up something. So you could definitely do it with a classified project. You just make sure none of that classified work is in there. Cool, good, absolutely All right, folks, I know we're over time.

Speaker 1: 1:21:54

I'm going to go through these questions real fast and then we'll go into. Um, actually, we'll pause for a second. Let's share you the link so you have the links and then that way, if anyone wants to drop off, they can, and then I'll answer the question. So if you guys can hold on, I apologize. Uh, let me get you the coursera link first so you guys can uh sign up for coursera. If you're interested in kind of signing up for coursoursera, if you're interested in signing up for Coursera Now, if you don't know anything about Coursera, it's a great resource and what it does is allows you to take advantage of certificates that they have.

Speaker 1: 1:22:27

They have over 12,000 courses on this platform. This is a partnership through VTS, no-transcript worth college credits. You can get up to 201 college credits based off of the course work that's on Coursera, all at no cost. Like I said, 12,000 courses. So if you're looking for something whether it's building your resume, learning how to build a lab, I'm pretty sure it's going to be on here, so take advantage of it. And it's open to military spouses, veteran transition service, national Guard, active duty and so forth, so take advantage of that.

Speaker 1: 1:23:35

I dropped that link in there. There's that. And then the last thing I'm going to share with you guys. All is like I said, this is a different way of me doing this, so I don't know how it's going to turn out, but we're going to attempt it. So here is the link to our career flow. Normally, I have you guys fill out, we give you a code, have you fill out a form, and that's the typical process for this. Sorry, let me switch over, but this is our database here that you'll get access to, and this will allow you to create a resume using AI.

Speaker 17: 1:24:12

I have a switch gap.

Speaker 1: 1:24:14

You're still on VTS. Oh, thank you, appreciate it. This will give on VTS. Oh, thank you, appreciate it. This will give you a resume. I mean, this will allow you to create a resume, it'll allow you to track jobs, it'll allow you to look for job opportunities on here and it'll take you directly to the site that has those jobs and then, if you come in here, you'll see the list of jobs here. You just gotta wait till it loads. Once it loads, then you can kind of look and search through the jobs here, just waiting for it to load. But it also has resources in here. So, right here, over 5,000 jobs. This is like more than just 5,000 jobs. This is like probably within the millions, but we've capped the number, so it says 5,000 plus.

Speaker 1: 1:24:57

You can work on your LinkedIn and improve your LinkedIn in here. It shows you how to improve your LinkedIn. You have also resources in here. You click on resources. This is all the resources that are available for our community at no cost. You switch out the grid layout Sorry, I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1: 1:25:18

There it goes, and so you have apprenticeship, certifications, child care, clothes makeover, college, community college I mean sorry college education, community, cyber it. So you just search through here and you'll maybe find your resources. If those are looking for financial certifications is in here too, so there's a lot of different resources that you can tap into. Use that. So the link for this and, like I said, I haven't done this before, so this is new is going to be this link to create your account. So you go there, you use your email address, you create your account. It should give you access to that and it should be good to go. If not, let me know. But that's how you get access to our career compass, specifically our career compass, and then how you get access to Porcero. All right, now let's go back to the questions and then we'll call it a day. So, maurice, you're up next.

Speaker 18: 1:26:15

Yes, good day to you and good day to all. So my I have two quick questions. So the first question is what's the turnaround time when you upload these, the podcast, to the YouTube.

Speaker 1: 1:26:28

I'll try to do as fast as possible, but usually it takes us about a week or two. Okay, this will probably be out, maybe next week.

Speaker 18: 1:26:34

Okay, okay, I want to read rewatchwatch the uh last week where you went over the notebook, so okay, yeah, yeah, so that definitely should be out.

Speaker 1: 1:26:46

Uh, um, I gotta ask, because I did like a series of them, so it should be either out next week or the following week okay, and then the only other question I have is um, what uh, what uh? So when you give us the code, do we upload?

Speaker 1: 1:27:01

There's no code today that I gave that. That link that I gave is um to it's to overwrite the code. I'm just trying to see if this works instead, cause if so, then I'll just do this, cause it's an easy option. Gotcha, all right, are you All right? Awesome, all right, melissa, what questions do you have?

Speaker 14: 1:27:25

Hi, okay Well, I don't have a question now, I just have. I was trying to figure out how to get into CareerFlow but I just used the new log and it said my email wasn't registered as an account, and I just used the new link you gave and it worked beautifully. I'm in and now I have an onboarding. Start onboarding, so I'm pretty sure I am good to go.

Speaker 1: 1:27:45

Awesome, cool, that works. Yeah, all right, dave, what question do you have?

Speaker 13: 1:27:59

hello, yo, your mic is super loud I just want to follow uh, piggyback on what I know I said and uh, for the love of tiny tunnies, you are using ai for anything with your resume. Please save another copy and remove your name, address, clearance and anything that has to do with your information, please, you have to do it now when you are using HayHive. Many people on this forum don't know about breaches going on day in and day out. If you know, you have done that already with your private information on any heihei. I'm going to post a link. Please run your email through it and see if you have been breached already. The name is haveibeenownedcom.

Speaker 13: 1:28:50

Please, if you are using any heihei with your resume, remove your name, remove your phone number, remove your clearance level, remove anything that has to do with you before you upload it into any AI system, please. We keep getting breaches day in, day out. Many of you don't know what is going on. Trust me, they have. Many of you don't know what is going on, trust me. But if you have done that already, use this site to check if your information has been compromised. Thank you all.

Speaker 1: 1:29:24

Dave, thank you for sharing that. I used this, I think, three weeks ago, just to see what my email was good. Strangely enough, it wasn't anything that I thought like activity online. It was auto parts for picking up a filter from my car. My email, my name and my phone number my physical address was taken. And then DC has this silly park mobile app that, in order for you to park, you can use this app. I was on there because their stuff was compromised. So same thing my license place. This time, my name, my phone number and then the password that I have associated to that app.

Speaker 1: 1:30:08

So, definitely, take his word of advice and see if your name is on there and then understand, like, what breaches it's connected to. And so, yeah, it's kind of crazy out there, all these organizations that store your data. There's an opportunity for it to be breached depending on how they're using their POS systems and things like that Auto parts of all places. I'm like I can't even get a filter. I can't even get you know, change out my window wipers. Like, so, yeah, I can't even get a filter, I can't even get you know, change out my window wipers. So, yeah, thank you for sharing that, dave. Can anyone give me their best Anwar impression, for the love of little. Got anyone out there that's willing to try that. I'll give a certification if people are interested. All right, we have, I'm not sure how to say your name, but I'm going to go with yeah the person on the screen.

Speaker 19: 1:31:14

Macchi Macchi, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you. I wanted to know about the CSM certification class that was supposed to be this August, so next weekend. I wanted to know if it's being filled up and also if spouses were eligible.

Speaker 1: 1:31:33

Any program we run is open to everyone in the military community. We don't like separate uh anybody in terms of that, but uh, for that particular class, those classes are all full, like if it's if it's like a week from now. Usually we have we're full with the class um, the next csm cohort, I think, is in in October, so that one is mostly filled. So I would recommend jump on that newsletter because I will share it there.

Speaker 19: 1:32:06

Okay, so it's it's. How do we get the information this time?

Speaker 1: 1:32:12

Oh, you have to go to actnoweducationorg, wait a few seconds, and then it'll be a pop-up saying join the newsletter, and then you'll just put your information in there and you'll get the newsletter.

Speaker 19: 1:32:22

Okay, thank you. And the last question is I see a lot of information about cybersecurity and things. Are there information or resources for data databases, analytics?

Speaker 1: 1:32:40

for, like data databases, analytics. Yeah, I mean all most of the stuff that we. I mean anything that has to do with data database, cyber security, ai tech. Majority of the stuff is the resources that we share, especially o'reilly media, if you, if you look for any of that stuff, you'll find that stuff, that information related to that. So, yeah, data, data science, databases, data engineering there's a bunch of information related to all of those topics. Okay, thank you very much. All right, awesome, michael Harris, you're up next.

Speaker 15: 1:33:08

Hi, good afternoon. I got a quick question what's the timeline to get imported over to?

Speaker 1: 1:33:15

CareerFlow. Let's try this, see if you can use this link and then see if you can have an account created through that link.

Speaker 20: 1:33:44

Cool, I can respond back. Yeah, I can respond back. Yeah, I can respond back into that to check. Okay, all right, mark, you're up next. Yes, sir, thank you, it's a good information, as usual, so I appreciate everything you're doing. Just wanted to circle back about the splunk access for the training.

Speaker 1: 1:33:54

Okay uh, was that not passed out, or oh yeah? Well, I'm not sharing the full, that's right, so let me get that. Thank you for bringing that up. I'm showing everybody. Look, here's the breaches that we're talking about.

Speaker 20: 1:34:14

And while you're pulling it up, just so everybody will know I'm about your LinkedIn profile. It is important you do that. Make sure you set it up right because people can find you. I was at one state college here in Florida. I have my profile typed and right on LinkedIn and another recruiter reached out to me asked me if I was interested in a certain job. Long story short, I'm now the dean of the College of Computer and Information Technology at St Petersburg College, so I'm over that program. If you inbox me at LinkedIn if you're interested in that or you just want mentoring or anything like that, I'd be happy to help out. So having your LinkedIn profile set is very, very important and if you want to transition to higher ed or anything like that, just inbox me and I can help you out.

Speaker 1: 1:35:10

All right, here are the steps for creating a Splunk account. I'm going to share it in the chat so everyone has it. Let me make sure that's right. Yeah, I can't share it in the chat because it's too many words. Hold on one second. I'm going to share one part and then I'm going to share the other part. There goes the first part and here is the second part. There goes the first part and here is the second part. Cool, so that's everything that you need to get Splunk access. Cool, all right, steve, what questions do you have? No question, if you are talking, we cannot hear you.

Speaker 15: 1:36:18

I can come back.

Speaker 1: 1:36:19

All right.

Speaker 5: 1:36:27

Next Alicia? What question do you have Mine got resolved, sorry, okay, awesome, easy day.

Speaker 17: 1:36:35

Samuel, did you have another question? So I'm working on my PMP right now. I have all my PDUs. They get accepted to take the exam. I just want to know what's the process if I want to get a voucher to take the exam.

Speaker 1: 1:36:48

For us, you have to go through Chris McPhee's IRC, which is Intensive Readiness. Intensive IRC Is it Readiness?

Speaker 1: 1:36:58

Intensive Review course or something I can remember I was like, oh, I don't know. I know it's something intensive, but you have to go through that and then you score a certain amount for the assessment. You score a 70. Then we'll pay for it. We'll give you a voucher. But if you don't want to wait for that, that we do have a partnership with pmi. You can get a hundred dollars off of paying for the voucher. So you just go to. If you have access to career compass, you can uh, you can do that with pmi. You can do that with uh comptia certifications. We get uh, like as a non-profit, we get a hundred dollars off of any of the certs and so we'll just we're just transferred chance, we're transferring our discount to you so that you can get that good for that.

Speaker 17: 1:37:41

You have. Um, I already have my sick, plus I'm working on uh, pmp and aws, yeah, so aws.

Speaker 1: 1:37:51

I could tell you the hack, for that is, if you actually go to I'm not sure where you you're, you're at, but if you actually live near a um, a headquarters, the aws provides you with free training and certifications, but you have to be, there once again I'm sorry if I leave near what.

Speaker 17: 1:38:08

What happened? You said that I missed part of the info. You said if I live near, near, if you live near uh headquarters AWS headquarters. I'm all the way in the Pacific, I'm in Hawaii, so there's nothing. Oh, yeah, no, no.

Speaker 1: 1:38:23

But the closest one to you is Seattle. But yeah, but the other thing that you could do is every month they do like a training, a virtual training. Every month they do a virtual training. I don't know Like they always. I would love to like share the link, but they always change their links, so I stopped sharing the links until, like, they could actually drop them. But if you take advantage of one of their virtual trainings, they always give a voucher at the end of it.

Speaker 1: 1:38:49

So don't pay for AWS, uh, certifications and things like that. Just look up for when they do trainings and take advantage of that and they also do like. They also do like their free certification period, where you could just work on a certification and they give you vouchers for it. So they'll do like their challenge or whatever it is that they have going on. So be on the lookout for that. Don't come out of pocket for AWS, because every month they I mean not every month, but every year they at least run two challenges. They either do their cloud challenge or the AI challenge, and it includes a bunch of different AI certifications that you can take advantage of If you could just type in.

Speaker 1: 1:39:28

you can type in Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 2: 1:39:35

I might be confusing it. Is it Microsoft that?

Speaker 1: 1:39:37

does the challenge. Which one does the challenges? Anwar, Is it Microsoft?

Speaker 4: 1:39:40

Microsoft does the challenge and AWS. From time to time they also have their own challenge as well over there, where they, you know, for specific, mostly the associate certifications, not the professional.

Speaker 1: 1:39:54

Not the professional yeah.

Speaker 17: 1:39:55

Now that I know anwar, I'm gonna get all the info from him. Yes, and, by the way, we are from the same country, so I'm gonna abuse him. You're from morocco too.

Speaker 1: 1:40:06

Yes, sir, oh, look at that, look who are the angels. We're international today, sure, so so, uh, then, then I, I challenge you. So Anwar runs, uh, a Morocco um group for tech, and he brings in a bunch of Moroccans and they're all on a call and he just essentially just talk about tech opportunities. So I challenge you to be a part of that and add some value to that. That way, you know, we have people from motherland. All right, kl, what you got.

Speaker 7: 1:40:38

Hi, so someone posted the. Someone shared the have I Been Pwned website and I clicked that link, but it's not working on my end. I'm not sure if that's for me though.

Speaker 1: 1:40:58

What did you click on? Like? I mean, I clicked on it and it opened up. I would just do a google search have I been pawned? And then you can just go from it from there. That way, google will give it to you directly.

Speaker 7: 1:41:12

Yeah, I did do that, but it's still coming up that the link is broken. It just gives me an error message.

Speaker 17: 1:41:22

I put it in there again.

Speaker 1: 1:41:27

You might be currently being pawned. Because it shouldn't give you any issues, I would try to use a different browser Browser that you're using. Try to use a different browser. Okay, I'll do that, thank you.

Speaker 13: 1:41:38

Awesome, I'm probably I've been punked.

Speaker 1: 1:41:41

There you go, samuel, what questions do you have? I can't hear you.

Speaker 16: 1:41:57

Sorry, I was going to try to do a poor impression of Anwar.

Speaker 1: 1:42:04

Oh, go ahead, Go ahead, let's hear it. All right.

Speaker 6: 1:42:09

So welcome everyone to this Vesantic training. Now, it's optional for this training. If you want to go ahead and put your camera on, feel free to ask some questions. I see Samuel's in the chat and he said he was in the Navy. I'm so sorry about that, but anyways, I hope everyone had enough time to complete everything on plural site. I don't know what else to say. You got to do the love of little dogs.

Speaker 1: 1:42:39

That's the missing part. Oh, no, okay.

Speaker 4: 1:42:43

Guess who just got banned at now. No, no, don't remember my name. I'm blacklisted on all my socials. For the love of little dogs.

Speaker 1: 1:42:58

I did it. That was great. Hey, Samuel, what cert you want, bro? Shoot. Can I see like a listing of what's available? All right, hit me up on the. We have CompTIA certs and we have AWS certs, so either one of those you can get, all right.

Speaker 6: 1:43:16

Thank y'all for that opportunity, appreciate it. Listen to that foolishness.

Speaker 1: 1:43:22

That was recorded. Yeah, this is good, I appreciate it, no problem.

Speaker 17: 1:43:33

All right Up. Next Say again All right Up next To do his impression. Say again Wouldn't even have to do his impression.

Speaker 9: 1:43:42

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:43:44

I think we sound the same. Alex, what you? Got for us.

Speaker 12: 1:43:56

Hi can you hear me? Yeah, we can. Okay, so my question is that I'm looking to obtain a certification in the Medicare insurance field, and along with that certification, the AHIP certification is also required, and I didn't see any resources for that.

Speaker 1: 1:44:16

So we don't do medical as well, because we okay yeah, background is not that well, my background is not that and my background is not that as well. However, um, the person who background it is as I would recommend you reaching out to. I'm going to share her information. She is part of the team and she is a doctor. Okay. Her name is Nicole Daraja. She's a PhD, like not like physician.

Speaker 4: 1:44:45

The only one I'm kind of aware of right now is this website here. You know, I don't know, we kind of sort of shared it, but I guess I don't know. But anyway, I'll let you make up your own mind about it.

Speaker 1: 1:45:02

Med certs, yeah, med certs, but I think they have like bill coding.

Speaker 4: 1:45:04

They don't have anything they have phlebotomy personal trainer, medical lab assistant, blah, blah, blah and all of that stuff, but then some other acronyms that I cannot understand myself. But beyond that, you know, you can just reach out to them. I think they use either your GI Bill or your workforce grants for whatever state you're in, you know. See if you get accepted to that and things like that. Ok.

Speaker 12: 1:45:32

OK, thank you. Can I also ask one more question? What's up Okay?

Speaker 1: 1:45:34

Okay, thank you.

Speaker 12: 1:45:34

Can I also ask one more question? What's up? Um, so I'm a paralegal, I've been a paralegal for 10 years now and I guess I'm trying to. I've been trying to gain a remote role just because, like my spouse is in military and he was, you know he has duties soon and I'm just trying to prepare for that. So I guess um, I don't know if you can give any advice for that, because I'm not having any luck.

Speaker 1: 1:45:57

Vertforce. I'm sorry. Did you reach out to Vertforce? I have yes. And there's nothing there for you with them. No, not remotely. That I would probably say one of two things you can look into ACP American Corporate Partners. Okay.

Speaker 1: 1:46:19

And they can connect you with a mentor within a particular field set that you're interested in and then that person could possibly provide you with opportunities related to, you know, being remote, but that that's really just more of a networking thing. But they do connect people with job opportunities. It's kind of like no mentor, but on our higher degree um, it's called american corporate partners. I can't think of anything. I'm actually. I take that back. So, on, um, no mentor, not mental.

Speaker 1: 1:46:46

On the career compass, if you go to the site, there are a bunch of different job boards there and then there's like military related job boards, like for ones that if you are deployed or you travel sorry, military spouse that you can take a opportunity to, so every time your husband gets to go somewhere or has to go somewhere, there's usually offices that support those types of things and paralegals typically need it and so but this is more so ran by like MWR or um, the base uh jobs need it. So they need paralegals for sure, cause I know when I was deployed, um, I've always ran through paralegals to get uh notific, uh, notaries and a bunch of other stuff that they they provide legal service. So that's definitely something that's needed. I would just try to figure out what base or what base, or use the MWR job board to find opportunities like that. Okay, and you said it's called American Corporate.

Speaker 1: 1:47:49

Partners yes, ACP. Thank you Cool.

Speaker 13: 1:47:51

Awesome, you can reach us to MyCAA for your sense.

Speaker 1: 1:47:56

Oh yeah, yeah, MyCAA, that's right, yeah, appreciate it. Look, look, dropping, dropping, dropping the information. Thank you for that. Thank you. I only forgot about MyCAA, melissa.

Speaker 14: 1:48:09

I was just curious. So I know the O2O program you can only use once and I thought of using it for the CAPM because I don't think, like I have the experience.

Speaker 1: 1:48:19

No, you do, you do. And no, don't use it for the CAPM. Ok, so what would you recommend?

Speaker 1: 1:48:28

I would recommend one or two things. One you have to list down your experience and the things, the jobs that you've had in the past, right, and then you can put this in chat GBT, because it's real simple to do it like that. But say create a project and so if you've been working for like three months or whatever, create project I'm sorry, three years work, create a project based off of the work that I've done at this location and break it down into the PMP format for an application. It's going to create your application interview aspect. The other aspect that you have to get is you have to get the PDUs. You can either get that from Udemy Are you a military spouse or active duty or veteran? Veteran.

Speaker 1: 1:49:09

Veteran Mm-hmm. Oh yeah, you definitely have that experience, so you would do that. And then, for the PDUs, you can use Gale Udemy, which is a free account, but you would have to find whatever public library is connected to you. You can use Harris County, but you have to have a middle not middle address. But if you don't, if you have a public library that's available to you, it creates you a free Udemy account.

Speaker 1: 1:49:43

Once you create that free Udemy account, you take advantage of the classes that say PMP, pdu hours. They will provide you with all the PDU hours needed and the course material needed and some test material needed as well, like they'll give you all that in one like felt swoop. So you'll have your experience that you need the amount of hours that you need. You'll have the PDU hours needed and then the next thing that you would just need to do is submit that application and then, once it gets it takes about a week or so to get back to you and they'll let you know, um, when you can test or when you schedule your test. But that's really it. There's nothing too crazy about it. But, um, don't take the cap them. I only recommend people take the cap them if they're like um college students or, you know, folks that don't have any employment experience whatsoever okay jay, where did you say to go to create your application for that, or the information?

Speaker 15: 1:50:41

I didn't hear the beginning part.

Speaker 1: 1:50:43

ChatGBT. Use ChatGBT to create your application. Just put in your job application, job information. Like for whatever job you've done, it has to be recent. So whatever job information you put in there, and then there's a certain amount of hours required. So if you have a bachelor's degree, it's I think it's don't quote me on this it's like 3,600 hours. If you don't have a bachelor's degree, it's like 5,600 hours or something like that. But the projects have to be that length. So I know for bachelor's degrees it has to be three years long. So you just have to touch base on different projects. What do you do, what the result was and all that other stuff.

Speaker 1: 1:51:23

But you put that in ChatGBT and say write this as for the PMP application, and it will change your verbiage into project management lingo and then you can just drop that in there and then the only thing you would need is the PDU hours. You complete the PDU hours and then you can submit your application. You can't you need to have all that ready before you submit the application. So make sure you knock out the PDU hours and then, for the PDU hours, all you're saying is you take in this particular course on this particular day from this particular um um uh trainer. It'll so if you use amduram dial or um uh, any one of the like the yeah, any one of those guys, you'll just list that you taking their course on udemy. That provided you the PDU hours.

Speaker 4: 1:52:14

You get a certificate once you finish the course, which means you have to pass their test exam. So you recommend that over doing the O2O?

Speaker 1: 1:52:28

Yeah, because here's the thing you use that for the O2O. I don't know anybody that's hiring for the CAPM. I do know people who are hiring for P&P Okay Right, and so you don't know anybody that's hiring for the cap. I do know people who are hiring for PMP OK.

Speaker 1: 1:52:39

Right, and so you don't want to complete that cert and then try to look for job opportunities. And they're like when you work for the PMP Right it's good for your level of knowledge and for you to learn, but it doesn't yield the result that you may be looking for, unless you're not. If you you're not looking for employment, then you can go that route. But again, that's a one-time one-and-done and I wouldn't want to waste my one-and-done on a CAPM. I would prefer to waste it on a higher level cert.

Speaker 14: 1:53:05

Okay. So would you recommend doing this then for that lower level cert first, or just going straight to the PMP?

Speaker 1: 1:53:13

Go straight to the PMP. I went straight to the PMP. I didn't do anything on the capital.

Speaker 1: 1:53:18

I went straight to the PMP and I can tell you my personal story. I didn't know anything about PMP. The only thing I heard about PMP was my senior chief at the time was telling me you need to look into doing your PMP. And I was like I don't even know what that is. What is that? It's like a, a pimp who wants to be a pimp. Uh, but it was like uh, so I looked into it and then I took advantage of it and yeah, I didn't have any experience and it's definitely its own language. Um, but it is related to projects. I've done like. I've done projects in the navy. I've done projects and things all throughout my career. So I just made it make sense. But, yeah, I would definitely not recommend um taking that silver bullet for the cap. I would take it for the PMP. Ok, all right, I appreciate it, thank you.

Speaker 1: 1:54:04

Absolutely All right. We have two more, and then we're, we are done for the day. Zeeshan, zeeshan.

Speaker 16: 1:54:19

Yeah, hey, jay, I was just. We spoke earlier. I had figured out what was going on. Apparently there was an account, so when you dropped that link, it helped with that. So I was able to then make the account and take care of that. But my question was I was trying to get on the CSM class that's coming up, obviously. You said it's booked, but you said there's an upcoming cohort for September. So I looked on Career Compass and I didn't see anything.

Speaker 1: 1:54:49

Yeah, any class that we have coming up ongoing or coming up soon is going to be only be offered in the newsletter okay, so I did sign up for that as well.

Speaker 16: 1:55:00

Is that like a monthly thing, every month? Okay?

Speaker 1: 1:55:04

so, yes, yes yeah, so we didn't, we didn't push it out yet. So you'll see it come out here shortly and not not this month, but in in august. You'll see that this is august 2nd. Yeah, september. You'll see the this is August 2nd September. You'll see, the September issue will drop and then you can see from there. But you'll see that on the September issue.

Speaker 16: 1:55:21

Okay, so it'll be on the September issue, not August issue, not August issue. Okay, great, and how fast do I have to?

Speaker 1: 1:55:31

stay up until 1 am to see the newsletter? No, I think they all get dropped at the same time. I don't remember the date, but for those who are already tuned in, I think it's like the 15th or something like that or half of the month. But whatever date it drops, it drops always at the same time. Okay, so they said there's 500 seats. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's not 500 seats for CSM. There's only a limited seat for CSM. The max we can do is 30. For AI, there's 500 seats.

Speaker 16: 1:55:58

Oh, okay, yeah, so you really want to get on that on the 15th pretty much.

Speaker 1: 1:56:03

Yeah, whenever the newsletter drops, you definitely want to tune in and sign up for it.

Speaker 16: 1:56:08

Then, and just a quick question Is there like a specific reason you're dropping like course course for the CSM versus the PSM? Because the PSM is good for life?

Speaker 1: 1:56:21

Yeah, it's trainers-based PSM costs me a lot of money to do CSM, not to say it doesn't cost me money, but it's more cost-effective. Unfortunately, we did do PSM, but for the amount that I do PSM I could get another 30 people certified, so that's the reason okay yeah, makes sense.

Speaker 16: 1:56:44

Thank you appreciate, no, or, if you see it, you're taking time.

Speaker 1: 1:56:47

Thank you, steve, you got the last question question trying to figure out.

Speaker 21: 1:57:15

So I wanted to find out a little more about project management. I actually run these construction projects as well. After like hearing today, I'm kind of interested in cyber security as well to find out a little more information. So if I'm getting started, where would I start?

Speaker 1: 1:57:30

Mill Mentor. I highly recommend you use Mill Mentor. So use MillMentor and find David Hart or anyone that has experience in cybersecurity. David Hart is my go-to because he always drops knowledge. I just shared it in there. But connect with those folks and then tell them, hey, because they're going to be in the field, and say, hey, this is what I'm interested in learning. I'm here, how do I get to being into the field? And they'll give you some good guidance. So informational interviews is the best way to start, rather than putting your energy behind something that really doesn't lead into what you're trying to do. Okay, and his name is David.

Speaker 1: 1:58:09

Hart David Hart.

Speaker 21: 1:58:11

Okay, no problem, all right. Second question you had dropped some PDFs earlier. I was trying to click on the one.

Speaker 1: 1:58:18

I couldn't download though Are you on your phone? No, the iPad. That's probably why. I don't know if it works on the iPad either. I think it only works on your computer.

Speaker 21: 1:58:28

Okay, so once I get the transcript, maybe then I could just do that.

Speaker 1: 1:58:36

Yeah, I'll try to put it here again so you can see if it just was a glitch. But yeah, I know for sure it does not work on the phone no, obviously I'm also on no mentor.

Speaker 21: 1:58:45

I can find people that's in government contracts and stuff like that yeah absolutely great cool appreciate it.

Speaker 1: 1:58:57

Alright, that was the weekly rundown, where we just touch base on resources, answer a few questions, provide you with some opportunities and hear someone's impression of Anwar. That gets them to cert. That was awesome. That will forever go down and and rundown. History is good stuff for me. But thank you for tuning in. We will be here next week, same time, same channel. Hopefully less time actually, but I appreciate you guys for joining. Thank you, you could be anywhere in the world, you with us, um, we appreciate that. Please let others know what we do, share this information, these resources, um, these opportunities. Thank you again and we'll see you either in the group or see you in the chat or see you at a weekly rundown. Have a good one, everyone.