ASK THE HEADHUNTER Should I tell employers I don’t have a smartphone?

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September 10, 2019, 06:05:17 AM
Should I tell employers I don't have a smartphone?

In the September 10, 2019 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter a reader asks whether a smartphone is a credential. Question These days it seems so many companies expect you to use your personal smartphone for company business. I do not have a smartphone and worry it will impact my job search. I have a basic flip phone for a variety of reasons, including what was basically a smartphone addiction that impacted both my mental and physical (neck strain) health. I am so much happier now with the simplicity of a basic phone, but worry potential employers will think I’m a Luddite.


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deanwebb

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September 10, 2019, 11:06:55 AM
In IT, you pretty much have to have one...
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

icecream-guy

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September 11, 2019, 10:45:25 AM
I ain't putting my personal cell phone into corporate MDM solution, and If they don't have a MDM solution, me, working in IT security, I wouldn't want to work there.
:professorcat:

My Moral Fibers have been cut.

deanwebb

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September 12, 2019, 03:31:20 PM
True, I never go into a corp MDM, but I use the smartphone for taking pictures of the backsides of network devices more times than I care to mention. Also good for directions to customer sites most of the time.
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.
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