ParrishOnOps

I’ve spent 30 years in IT operations and infrastructure. Here’s what that really means: • I’ve seen systems fail at the worst possible time • Led teams through outages, pressure, projects, change, as well as growth and development • Fixed more ‘this should’ve been caught earlier’ issues than I can count Also: • First and foremost, I'm a follower of Christ • Next, I'm a husband, dad, grandad • I'm also a soldier, Search & Rescue Instructor, and S-3 NCOIC for 3BN, 1BDE, Texas State Guard On this account, I’ll share: • Real-world leadership lessons, both military and civilian related • Life experiences during my current job search as the result of a RIF • The occasional meme—because some things deserve it Currently exploring VP-level opportunities. If you’re in this world, welcome. I look forward to learning from and sharing with, each one of you.

@otokyo__ This is what happens when a soldier returns home from a field training camp exercise. 😝

What happened to this toilet ?

@CousinBenFromTX I had one of those for my truck a while ago. Not only does it protect Your vehicle very well, it’s super fun to throw a softball at it and try to get out of the way before you get hit. 🤣 Taking it off, drying it out, and putting it away sucks!

I've put up the official neighborhood bat signal that hail is coming. You might think it looks dumb but this little inflatable cocoon has paid for itself over and over again in the 4 years I've had it.

@FactsAboutTexas Holy cow! I was just there last week, training at Fort Wolters. How terrible!!!!

Mineral Wells is decimated 😢

@trumplicans2024 You want 25%? Earn it, I have no problem over tipping for someone who provides outstanding service, but I will not be guilted into a big tip.

and you say?

With all of the technological advancements, we have made over the years, there are still scenarios where old school techniques are still very relevant. I recently submitted my résumé for an open Vice President of Technology position for a healthcare technology and analytics company, and instead of sitting your own waiting or trying to find the recruiter handling the job. Requisition, I decided to drive on over and hand deliver a physical résumé and cover letter for the CEO. As I walked into the office, I was greeted by a very nice lady, and as I explained why I was there and handed her the envelope, I found that she was the CEO’s Executive Admin. Sometimes you can still get things done via “the old way.” And now we wait…

@ThrillaRilla369 My family and I still do this. There's nothing like eating a buttered cracker that had been put in a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup for a few seconds.

Did everyone eat this or was I just poor?

@DerekAMartinez @CAPTexasWing @texas_guard Much appreciated, brother.

@ParrishOnOps @CAPTexasWing @texas_guard Congratulations!

So, a thing happened to me at annual training this week. In addition to my promotion, out in the field where my BN thrives, we had some great training with several partner agencies, @parkercountycert, @CAPTexasWing , @texas_guard ,Parker County Emergency Management, and a handful of high school theater students made up as lost victims, for one of the largest SAR training missions I’ve been a part of.

Today is the strangest and supprisingly most relaxed Monday I've had in a long time. I'm actually spending most of today cleaning up and retrofitting my equipment after a week at annual training with the Texas Guard; a process that would normally take me all week to do, resulting in gear spread all over our front living room. 🤣

Mondays are not so bad after all.

@MustangMan_TX Desert

Valentine 💌

How do you respond?

@lady_valor_07 Too easy, sit down and dig in!

You just got off a 15 hour overnight shift and come home to this. What do you do?

@MbarkCherguia I'd call that tecnique "How to get shot taking your ball cap off."

What would you call this technique?

@landofthe80s My wife walked in on me one Sat morning, sitting on the floor, watching old school Looney Tunes on YouTube. All she could do was look at me, shake her head with a smile, and keep on walking by. 😅

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I'm curios if the hiring manager reviewed the JD at all, and if so are they are the ones who put the kitchen sink in there. If so, that tells me a couple of things, 1) they don't actally know what they need, 2) they think they can hire 1 person to do 2 jobs. Either way, they lost out big and I hope they learn from this lesson.

A bank we work with uses an AI tool to screen every resume that comes in. Here's how it works. We send them a candidate. Their internal recruiter runs the resume through the tool. If it scores an 8/10 or higher, the candidate gets an interview. Anything below that, auto rejected. We sent them a candidate a few weeks ago for a Python Developer role. She just ended a project for us at a competing bank with excellent references. The skills they actually needed for the role? Python, FastAPI, SQL. She had all three, used daily in her last job. The tool scored her a 7.5. Rejected. We pushed back and asked why. Turns out the job description had everything and the kitchen sink listed. Fifteen skills, half of them "nice to haves" that had nothing to do with the actual work. The AI weighted all of them equally and her score got dragged down by gaps that didn't matter. We pushed back on the internal recruiter citing she had the main skills + excellent references. We got her the interview and she got the offer. This is where internal recruiting teams are headed. AI tools layered on top of ATS systems, scoring candidates before a human ever reads the resume. In theory it saves time. In practice, it rejects qualified people because nobody bothered to write a clean job description. The tool isn't the problem, the inputs are. If your JD is a wish list instead of a job description, your AI is going to reject the exact people you're trying to hire. We're early in this. The tech will get better. But right now, a lot of great candidates are getting filtered out for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they can do the job.

Schrödinger got pulled over by the Police. When the Police Officer asked him if there was anything in the vehicle, he said no. The Police Officer asked if he could search the car, Schrödinger said yes. The Police Officer did his search, ending up at the trunk, opened it and asked, "Did you know you have a dead cat in your trunk?" Schrödinger replied, "Well, I do now." I'll see myself out. 🤣

@InterviewFlowAI Agreed. I beleive I've always done a good job of providing constructive feedback to any candidate I passed on in the past, and I really hope all of my recruiters have passed it on. I'm taking notes during my current job search to make sure I do even better in the future.

@ParrishOnOps the ones who fix hiring are almost always the ones who got burned by it first. lived experience is the best design doc

Lessons learned during a job search can help your future candidates immensely. Take the time to record your job search successes and frustrations, so when you land your next leadership role, you’ll know what to work on to fix. Tired of being ghosted? Work with your future recruiting team to ensure that each candidate for an open position at least gets a notice that they’ve not been selected. If you can add notes on why they weren’t selected to move forward, based on company policy, do so; it’ll help the grow for their next submission.

@TechOperator Elon can't steal what the feral, I mean federal, government has already stolen. 😤

Happy Tuesday to everyone who doesn’t think “eLoN is TrYiNg to StEAl YoUr SoCiaL SeCurItY!”

My coworker uses words like “synergy” and “leverage” unironically. He says them louder in meetings when leadership joins the call. Today he said we should “circle back offline to align on asynchronous bandwidth.” He meant “talk later.” I opened the shared doc and changed every instance of “synergy” to “basic cooperation.” Nobody noticed for two hours. Then he shared his screen in a meeting. He read it out loud. “Q2 requires more basic cooperation across teams.” Silence. I watched him die inside in 4K. I’ve never felt closer to my job description: other duties as assigned.