{"id":1379,"date":"2016-05-12T10:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2016-05-12T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:46:26","slug":"it-pipeline-and-hiring-for-rapport-with-frances-wong-episode-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2016\/05\/it-pipeline-and-hiring-for-rapport-with-frances-wong-episode-112\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Pipeline and Hiring for Rapport with Frances Wong &#8211; Episode 112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Geek Whisperers are coming back to your from our wonderful time at the Silicon Valley VMUG. Armed with beautiful new microphones, we sit down with\u00a0Frances Wong, SVVMUG Leader and IT Professional. We discuss:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/frances-wong-svvmug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1386 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/frances-wong-svvmug.jpg\" alt=\"frances-wong-svvmug\" width=\"224\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/frances-wong-svvmug.jpg 400w, http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/frances-wong-svvmug-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/frances-wong-svvmug-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/frances-wong-svvmug-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building rapport quickly<\/li>\n<li>The charisma myth<\/li>\n<li>The unspoken parts of charisma<\/li>\n<li>Hiring in the valley<\/li>\n<li>Hiring a little differently in Silicon Valley<\/li>\n<li>Losing a great IT guy and refusing to &#8220;hire young&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My users are my customers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Helpdesk as partners for IT<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Who are you serving?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Partnering within the organization<\/li>\n<li>Looking for something that resumes can&#8217;t show us<\/li>\n<li>Looking for personable regardless of tenure<\/li>\n<li>Fear of ownership behind the server room door<\/li>\n<li>How do you get from college theory to IT operator?<\/li>\n<li>Day in the life of an IT Operator<\/li>\n<li>Managing Vendors for the job<\/li>\n<li>Managing in house and cloud services<\/li>\n<li>Understanding business need vs technical wants<\/li>\n<li>Curious, passionate, friendly<\/li>\n<li>Helping other people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4284\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1379-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1379-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geek Whisperers are coming back to your from our wonderful time at the Silicon Valley VMUG. Armed with beautiful new microphones, we sit down with\u00a0Frances Wong, SVVMUG Leader and IT Professional. We discuss:\u00a0 Building rapport quickly The charisma myth The unspoken parts of charisma Hiring in the valley Hiring&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/2016\/05\/it-pipeline-and-hiring-for-rapport-with-frances-wong-episode-112\/\">Read All Show Notes<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IT Pipeline and Hiring for Rapport with Frances Wong &#8211; Episode 112<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4285\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1379-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1379-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/geek_whisperers\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"IT-Pipeline-and-Hiring-for-Rapport-with-Frances-Wong-Ep-112.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geek-whisperers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}