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If you want to land a tech job, technical skills aren’t the only thing you need to learn.  You also need to know how to catch a recruiter's eye and secure interviews. And that all starts with your resume. Here are eight tech interview and resume tips to stand out and get hired. 👏 Missed Tech Skills Day? View the full related session here: https://lnkd.in/e36mdfS4

Earlier this week we shared about our intern orientation where we we welcomed 24 talented students across 17 different universities to Pluralsight. Now it's time to get to know some of our 2024 interns! 🥳

Everyone’s journey into cloud is different. 👏 Whether you’re dipping your toes into cloud or you’ve already dived in, there’s always an opportunity to advance your career and build your skills. 📈 We interviewed multiple cloud leaders, including Jeff Barr, AWS Vice President and Chief Evangelist, and Nana Janashia, Founder of TechWorld with Nana, to get their career and upskilling advice. 🙌 No matter where you are in your cloud journey, you’ll find actionable advice you can use to level up your career. ✅ Pluralsight is proud to support the growing community of cloud gurus by sponsoring the Cloud Career Journeys book from Prasad Rao and Ashish P. View the full interview's now: https://plrsig.ht/3wrQEqg

This is awesome! 👏 Love seeing the Pluralsight Flow team spend focused time together to help engineering leaders increase visibility, efficiency, and predictability of DevOps and software delivery.

Preparing to take the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam? Faye Ellis has you covered. 👏 You'll need to know these five services that can help you modernize your apps and avoid unnecessary costs associated with lift-and-shift migrations: > Lambda > Elastic Container Service > Elastic Container Registry > Elastic Kubernetes Service > Fargate More AWS Cloud Practitioner exam tips >> https://lnkd.in/eVy4S8JZ

We're kicking off Monday with a bang. 🥳 Today we welcomed 24 talented students across 17 different universities to take on internships in software engineering, machine learning, product management, design, operations, and marketing.

Thanks to all those who came out to Pluralsight Connect24: Denver in partnership with the Denver Business Journal. We enjoyed connecting with you on how to build a winning skill development strategy for your team.

𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑅𝑆𝐴 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 2024. 🥳 𝑂𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛 Adam Ipsen 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘. Real talk time. Learning is amazing. I'll die on the hill of continuous learning: I didn't go to to University twice—once in my teens, and again in my late 30s—for nothing. Working every day to help educate others is my dream profession. 👏 But learning can also be very hard. Confronting, even. 😅 "That's a weird thing to say. Don’t you work at a tech education company?" Yes, this is real talk. And here's why: To learn, it means admitting you don't know something. 👏 Makes sense, right? If you don't, there'd be no need to learn. But admitting ignorance is an exercise in vulnerability. In a sense, you're admitting you're not where you want to be. Normally, this isn't a big deal. The great thing with digital learning—through Pluralsight, YouTube, or even W3Schools—is you can admit your ignorance in secret, and fix it before anyone "finds out." A major conference is another matter. 💥 I've been at RSA Conference—one of the world's largest cybersecurity events, with a whopping 45,000 professionals. Every hour, I'm surrounded by daunting luminaries: C-level leaders of names like Google and Microsoft. Shining cryptographic geniuses of academia. Cyber directors of US Security, playing for stakes no smaller than entire countries. And then there's me. I went to an expo booth to try a demo of an SOC monitoring dashboard. When I admitted I was a cybersecurity learner, the vendor said this: "This might be a little too advanced for you." 😅 . . . and then looked away, as if I were a bad smell. Nevertheless, I clicked around and tried to learn, drowning in discomfort. The next day, I asked John Elliott what the most important thing to get into cybersecurity was. And he said: "A willingness to learn and knowing how much you don't know." 👏 The will is important here. I love learning. It's amazing, transformative. But it requires will, and at times, you'll be faced with a wall of technical jargon, and the imposter syndrome will speak. "This is too technical for you. You don't belong here. Go home." This week at #rsac, I told that voice to shut up. I'm glad I did. I've come away far more confident in cybersecurity, and knowing how much I don't know. And so, I wrote this message to pin at the event: ➡️ I live. ➡️ I learn. ➡️ I improve. Each step builds on the last. Not everyone learns—some stop evolving young. You can’t improve without learning, which means embracing vulnerability. —Keep being awesome . . . and keep stepping towards being even more awesome. 😎

𝐷𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑆𝐴 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 2024 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 Adam Ipsen 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑. 💥 If you’re a fan of Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis took the stage Wednesday at #RSAC ‘24. But he's far from the first star appearance. We’ve had Matthew Broderick from War Games (if you haven’t seen it, DON’T admit it at a cybersec conference). And Alicia Keys is set to close out the event. For the second year in a row, the AI Safety keynote was an absolute banger. Experts from Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, the Center for AI Safety, and Harvard answered questions to the effect of “are the terminators coming to kill us?” The key takeaways: 🚨 - Some cryptographists and Security Engineering heads believe AI is not a unique Godzilla and is no different from securing software. 🚨 - In a spicy moment, famous cryptographer Bruce Schneier was asked why he signed the Statement on AI Risk that warned of “existential threats of AI.” (You might have seen it in the media.) He admitted he signed it believing the opposite, then turned to the paper’s author and asked him what the heck the paper was actually about. Drama! 🚨 - The panel agreed that AI had become a “problem for everybody” and “we all have to become AI experts now as a society.” 🚨 - Dr. Rumman Chowdry, the AI ethicist and US Science envoy who was the star of last year’s keynote, was meant to show but was notably absent (utterly disappointed). Her LinkedIn profile says #opentowork. What’s the deal? And on a personal Tuesday takeaway, physicist Brian Cox did a keynote and now has me convinced the universe is running on a quantum computer and black holes show the end of everything. Now I've just got to philosophically resolve that. We’ll be covering more keynotes during the day. Check out our RSA blog post (updated daily) for a slice of what’s going on. >> https://plrsig.ht/44CHO5E #RSAConference

𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝐹𝑂𝑀𝑂 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑑𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑅𝑆𝐴, 𝑤𝑒'𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑. 👏 Adam Ipsen's 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑤𝑜. 🥳 They say working in cybersecurity is like drinking from a firehouse for a living. So is attending RSA. Your brain is being flooded with so much knowledge-sharing on novel attacks, best (and worst) practice use cases, and innovations, it's easy to be left swimming. Consider this post me coming up for a little bit of air—dumping my findings on you so I can free my brain up a little. Today's key RSA takeaways: 🚨 - Quantum computing is on everyone's lips (for newbs: the next era of computers that make our current supercomputers look puny). It's expected to break asymmetric encryption. And at a cryptographer's panel, experts were discussing how post-quantum solutions need to be aggressively tested more to make sure they're ready to handle the post-quantum era for organizations. 🚨 - Cisco's Jeetu Patel threw a WILD scenario out there that we're going to have 80 "digital employees" (code for AI) for every 20. And they might live in "digital cities" hosted on data centers (which then need to be properly secured). As a sci-fi fan, this sort of thing was right up my alley, though the social implications of this (Jeetu saying we'd have 72 billion digital people to the human 8 billion) is enormous. Nick Bostrom would be grinning right now. 🚨 - Our very own Director of Security Research and Curriculum, Aaron Rosenmund, unveiled a terrifying novel attack where threat actors don't need to go past your firewall to deliver malicious packages, keeping their cross-section tiny and evading all current network detection signatures. By generating waveforms over the wire using packets with no application layer payload, you can send all sorts of nasty things—and this attack could have been in the wild for at least five years. 🚨 - According to Google's research, cybercriminals are finding out crime does pay due to not enough disincentives for nefarious deeds. Suggested solutions include better defenses (of course), cracking down on crypto, and updating treaties to remove safe havens. 🚨 - By RSA's count, cybersecurity burnout is back at levels not seen since 2021 during the height of COVID-19. The reason? Cybersec folks being burdened by the conflict of recording incidents during the fact instead of just putting out fires. 🚨 - I'm discovering conferences are dangerous for LEGO fans. I must have entered, like, eight different raffles, and there's no way I'm going to remember when to show up to them all. I'll quote the Lion King: "There's more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than can ever be done." This is a sliver of what's going on. I'm going to keep drinking from the firehose and trickling what I can here, so you can stay in the know. #RSAConference