Sample – tell me about yourself for a role

Role:

Ex: Business Analyst, System Analyst

Profile:

I do have a solid 5 years of experience in IT in various technologies and different domains.

The knowledge transition in general in it would be 2 weeks.

 

Strengths:

Workday:

HCM

Finance

P:ayroll

Student/enrollment/Leave

 

Advantages:

I have the knowledge required for this role and I am in touch with the existing team on the tickets that are actively working on.

 

What can i improve

reduce the Gap in the tickets created, analyze on the repeated tickets which does not have a quick resolution,

prioritize and get a solid template of answer to get the tickets resolved quickly.

Roles and Responsibilities

What is expected

What I do every day! 

Jobs – Things to know – Questions to HR or Accountant -Full time Permanent vs Incorporated

  • Work time zone: Is it ET, PT or CT
  • Offshore calls , night meetings?
  • Location: Onsite, remote, hybrid?
    • Remote: work from the country or anywhere but same time zone?
    • Onsite: Location?
    • Hybrid : office 2 days a week?
  • Notice Period: Ex: 15 days or 1 month
  • Is the Role Full time Contract or a permanent role
  • If the role is a Contract/Incorporated, then how many hours per week in total? ex: 37.5 or 40
    • Cost to the Company per hour, hourly rate? ex: $50
    • Yearly workable hours =2000 hours?
    • Is there any Offshore team, do i need to send time in a specific time zone?
    • Can i Log extra effort if worked in other time zones too or can make my hours flexible.
  • If it’s a full-time permanent Role:
    • If it’s full time, what’s the salary?
    • How has the promotion and progression in the company in recent times?
    • Total number of vacation leaves provided, Christmas Holidays?
    • How many days of maternity/paternity leaves available?
    • Sick days leave
    • Salary in those maternity/paternity leaves?
    • Other Perks?
      • Yearly education allowance:
      • Yearly certification, examination fee re-imbursement
      • Seminar sessions included for FTE, but one may have to pay500$ at least if we are planning it personally.
    • External health Insurance?
      • Dental
      • Eye
      • Mental-Health
    • To your Accountant:
      • Fee to file per year:
      • How much taxes to pay if earned one hundred thousand as fulltime permanent vs incorporated
      • including benefits is kindly ask your accountant samples of any template to compare! – tis will be good to negotiate
        • For Example: and not fact: 75000$ per annum full time permanent roll is equivalent to 50$ per hour for a year of 2000 workable hours?
        • considering the below items to be paid to the Gov or Insurance:
          • Income Tax:
          • GST:
          • Corporate Tax:
          • Accountant Fee:
          • External Insurance: (Self – can we continue use of the insurance on paid leave?)- upgradable?
          • Dental –
          • Eye
          • Physiotherapist:
          • Provident fund
          • Employee insurance
          • Employee insurance company
          • Incorporation registration: provincial/federal
          • Sick leave: in days convert to salary, can be used incorporation mode if the user takes a day off!
      • Invisible facts for incorporated jobs:
        • mental pressure on finding job once the current contract ends in let’s say 3-6 months – Cannot be equated to money!
        • Satisfaction that on numbers you are earning more than a full time, until u know the facts after paying year1,2 taxes!
        • Salary slabs on taxes:
          • 0-$25000
          • $25000-50000
          • $50000-75000
        • Always on the run to find new jobs
        • On a better note, the resume is tuned better as value ads are updated regularly based on the preparation for the interviews.

Splunk Specialist – List of Roles and Responsibilities

Splunk Specialist with good IT infrastructure skills, in multi-platform environments, ideally familiar with Linux. There are several innovative projects in Splunk, and various companies are looking for qualified administrators with Splunk experience and/or certification.

Main responsibilities:

  • Participated in all Splunk company initiatives, both internal projects and customer mandates.
  • Install and configure the necessary components to collect data from DB, log files, API, etc. to Splunk.
  • Install, configure, administer Splunk Enterprise on Windows and Linux.
  • Support Splunk updates.
  • Monitor and identify performance issues.
  • Perform data onboarding in Splunk: data collection, filtering, and transformation (source types, inputs, transforms, etc.);
  • Build use cases: advanced SPL, dashboards, reports, alerts, etc.
  • Always continue to develop product knowledge and act as a product expert.
  • Document best practices.

Qualifications required:

  • Integrating data from various sources (DB, log files, APIs, etc.) into Splunk (on prem or cloud);
  • Experience in CIM modeling in Splunk.
  • Experience in managing indexes and knowledge objects in Splunk.
  • Experience working with cloud offerings such as Azure or AWS.
  • Knowledge of basic security concepts.
  • Experience in access management (RBAC model) in Splunk.
  • Valuable experience in AIX, Linux (RedHat, CentOS) systems administration (permissions management, security (including TLS/SSL), debugging, etc.);
  • Exceptionally good experience in Splunk user support and training.
  • Good knowledge of system virtualization.
  • Good knowledge of server infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of storage, operating systems and networking.
  • Knowledge of Splunk Enterprise Security is an asset.