cv-pls new-job advice on a specific choice What should I learn to increase my skill and get a next job?‭ - Prince Pritam Gur‭ 2020-04-09 12:30:05Z

Everyone looking forward to the long bank holiday weekend?

@Bee hell yeah

@moto any plans to make a trip... to the end of the garden :P

first chance for some time off since Xmas and it feels like a great antidote (no pun intended) to the current stresses

@Bee lol.. probably yeah - if the weather holds I'll probably be getting out in the garden a fair bit

Have you gone for the full 10 day trick? I didn't bother this year with the lockdown

@Bee no just, the bank holidays - I was due to be off for a week next month but have cancelled that as it was supposed to be for a trip away which is not happening now

That's sucky

I luckily hadn't booked any time off before lockdown anyway

@moto got hold of some lamb for Sunday?

yeah.. it's a pain, booked the holiday last september and was really looking forward to it, fortunately the place I was due to stay have lifted and shifted the whole thing to May '21 for no charge

@Bee no.. I'm not really a fan of lamb, might do a beef roast though as I've got one in the freezer

ooo thats awesome @moto something to look forward to at least :) Where are you going? I was meant to be going to a festival the first may bank holiday but it's been moved to September which means I have to take the monday off for it, but at least it's not cancelled. Beef is good too - We're just taking a traditional approach this year. Plus Im welsh so, any excuse for lamb!

@Bee Sorrento in Italy, it was (or will hopefully be) a week-long yoga retreat

Oh it's beautiful there

@Bee yeah I've not been to that part of Italy before but my gf has - she went there last year and raved about it

How do you improve a team member's intuition at work? Folks on the team are junior members fresh out of school. How can one's gut feeling be improved?

@Anthony There's no real shortcut that I know of - that sort of thing comes either with raw talent or experience

If you could teach experience it wouldn't be worth as much as it is

most of what we term intuition is nothing more than cumulative experience providing subconscious hints

@Bee this, so very much this

So if they are junior, must I hold them under their wing? Want to delegate but am afraid

A mistake in infosec can be severe and I hate micro managing

A mix of the two - guide then, let them make their own mistakes but ensure there is a safety net in place (QA, touching base etc)

@Anthony juniors need more supervision and direction - especially where it's something as critical as infosec. When they start showing some competence you can always have them work a bit on their own and have a more experienced staff member checking their work, then as they prove they get it "right" more often then not, then you can start delegating responsibility to them

@Bee 's advice is spot on just chucking them in at the deep end and leaving them to it is a surefire way to a) overwhelm them b) reap the "rewards" of some serious snafus as you go, but you want them to start thinking for themselves, even if you retain sign-off/review on what they do as a safety net