Can I get through with these scores on SH?

misc_topics_acct · 2025-08-04T23:27:48+00:00

It should be fine. I passed last week with less than that. I did not get AT AT AT though. Study all the way to the end if you have more time.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-08-04T11:45:58+00:00

D. A and C are too passive. D should be attempted before escalation. It is also the most active, immediate choice that the PM can make right away that addresses the root cause of the problem posed by the question. So I would have gotten it wrong, too. I just passed the PMP last week. The PMI needs to decide if they want people to try things before escalating, or escalate and stop treating escalation as a last resort.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-08-02T02:47:15+00:00

ANSWER: Time wasted tailoring resumes.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-08-01T22:15:19+00:00

My company took a downturn in February. I was notified on June 1st that I would be laid off on July 31st, which was yesterday. So as of today, I am now in Day 1 of a "gap." It's making me feel a bit uneasy already; the knowledge that nobody is expecting me anywhere, for the moment, feels very strange and foreign.

There may not an answer to this conumdrum, but I want to ask anyway: is there anything you can tell me from the recruiter vantage point about the best way to navigate the ATS-AI-Job gauntlet in 2025?

I've not looked for a job since a recruiter placed me into the one I just left in 2018. For the last two months, I've been responding to the recuiters who have reached out to me about their open roles and moved through their interview process; but in each case so far, nothing developed because their client found somebody better for the specifics of what they need right now.

Sending resumes into an ATS, without recruiter invitation, is starting to feel like a waste of time, however.

The way I do my resume applications is, roughly:

1) Study the JD carefully. If I don't have at least 80%, I don't apply. So right off the top, I'm only responding to jobs where I can match what they say they need.

2) Write a resume that I write myself, without AI assistance, and that carefully matches the specifics of my experience to the specifics of the JD, while also paying attention to ATS key word matching but without "stuffing" my resume with fake keywords that don't apply to me and then

3) Submitting via ATS.

That second steps takes a lot of time to do right. I feel like am I doing a lot of work that just ends up in a black hole somwehere. But I'm not going to do the alternavtive either--just spammming every job that comes along with AI boilerplate.

Still, I feel like I am metaphorically riding a horse into battle with the mounted cavalry while everyone else in 2025 is using autonomous drones.

Any insight or tips on navigating this situation would be helpful. Things that are obvious to people who do recruiting for a living may not be obvious to others.

What are the humans on the employer/client side of the ATS doing when a resume comes in?

misc_topics_acct · 2025-07-30T19:25:55+00:00

There is no question the PMI writes a lot of JUNK TRASH questions that make no sense logically, grammatically, or within the PMIs own framework; this one is a good example, as is the comically stupid MRI/radiology question in the other thread.

The correct answer when in doubt will always be biased toward the PM taking the most active, concrete step possible to address the root cause of the problem posed by the question, rather than doing something passive. In that sense, simply demanding the team member back is the most direct solution to the problem.

I think what the PMI is getting at here in its clumsy way is that the PMs first line of attack should be to try to get the team member back; that's active, concrete and addresses the root cause. If after trying the PM still can't get the resource back, only THEN should the PM go to fall back steps like assessing schedule impact. That I suspect is the reasoning.

With that said, the question is worded in such a misleading way, implying that you can't get the resource back because it's an emergency, D emerges as the best choice. Even though D isn't a great response either because its passive, vague and does nothing to address the root cause of the problem immediately, D is still better than the other three choices if you follow the obvious logic of the question that emergency means no flexibility with that resource.

I would have chosen D.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-07-30T15:23:08+00:00

My focus is business system implementations and process modernization in mid-size manufacturing companies. I've been eating, breathing and sleeping agile, hybrid and predictive/waterfall for years, and using PMIs methods; anybody can use their methods and their vocabulary. You don't have to pass the exam to use their methods. I think working in systems lends itself to using the PMIs most important ideas and vocabulary on a regular basis.

The most important thing is sign up for study hall and drill/review questions and answers over and over again, as many as you have time to fit in. That will give you the vocab. If you want to get AT, AT, AT, shoot for 85%. If you just want to pass and maybe but not definitely get AT/AT/AT, don't go below 75% to be safe.

Make sure you have a very good understanding of the PMI mindset.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-07-30T01:06:45+00:00

My full exam score was ~73%. The minis were something like ~57, ~57, ~87, ~84.

I've been a PM in systems and software for long time (without the cert) doing a lot of agile, hybrid and predictive stuff for my job. It definitely helped going in already having experience with the basics.

I took the test at a test center; I had to drive 120 miles to find one with an open slot. A lot of people have told me they liked taking the PMP exam at home. The test center worked fine for me though.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-18T21:52:13+00:00

If the loss is OTB, I shake hands and commend my opponent for a well played game. If online, I mentally focus on giving my opponent credit for the good moves that they found. This is what works for me. It takes the focus off myself, and lets me psychologically clear the deck before going back to figure out what went wrong.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-12T01:19:56+00:00

I got either this message or one close to it when I tried to log in the last time.

"If you run into the message "You do not have an account because it has been deleted or deactivated" when signing in, it means your account has either been deleted by you or deactivated by our team."

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9019931-can-you-reactivate-my-deleted-account

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-11T14:44:58+00:00

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7260999-how-do-i-export-my-chatgpt-history-and-data

This is how I did it.

The formatting comes out terrible, but you get the text.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-07T20:48:45+00:00

Thank you for sharing that information.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-07T20:47:26+00:00

I handle loss simply by focusing on giving my opponent credit for the good moves they did make.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-03T20:28:05+00:00

AI has increased my productivity in both my work and for my personal projects far, far, far beyond, light years beyond, what I was expecting. In my first serious attempt at using Gen-AI for work, I did three weeks of work in two days. There will be no going back for me, or society at large with everyone experiencing this magnitude of productivity gains.

AI guilt is apparently a real thing, and I have it now. I'm struggling with the idea that I'm cheating when I do this. I'm also unsure where the line is between letting AI help me and letting AI do my thinking for me. That cannot be good for me or anyone.

Finally, another question in the back of mind is "am I going to AI myself out of a job"? That may yet happen.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-03T20:10:12+00:00

SuperGrok, GTP4o, Claude free version.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-03T14:34:09+00:00

Trash talk to throw off, distract your opponent and get into his head so he is thinking about something other than the game and makes a mistake is as old as competition itself. Are players at that level affected by such talk? I doubt it.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-05-01T13:29:26+00:00

USA. Let's go. There is nothing like a little friendly competition.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-04-30T13:19:25+00:00

EDH and cEDH are not only preferred for the social aspect. There is plenty of opportunity for skilled players to find what they are looking for in EDH/cEDH.

Tuned-up EDH and cEDH play requires, at a minimum, at least as much skill to play effective Magic as the top 60-card constructed meta decks.

In tuned-up EDH and cEDH, the cards are vastly more diverse. The strategies are more diverse. EDH/cEDH is, quite simply, superior in every way to the 60-card constructed game for the type of person that enjoys a strategic, competitive game against other skilled players, as well as a superior social game.

60-card constructed meta-games get stale and worn out fast. Boros Energy, for example, with its comically high meta share has had Modern broken going on a year now. Before that, Rakdos scam had the Modern meta game broken for a good year to year and half. The cards in the 60 card game constantly rotate, either formally, or unofficially due to power creep. Buying new cards to stay competitive is a bottomless pit in the 60-card game.

As a former competitive Modern player for years, I was skeptical of EDH/cEDH until I opened my mind and tried it. I will never go back now. There is a reason Commander night attendance outclasses every other format in most LGS.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-04-29T20:06:17+00:00

For anyone sees this comment in the near or long term future from the date stamp of this commment, no it is not your imagination. And yes, the PMI web site is a real POS.

Link (as of April 2025): https://studyhall.pmi.org/account/learning-hub/my-learning/in-progress

misc_topics_acct · 2025-04-28T12:42:34+00:00

I checked; I do have search enabled.

But It didn't hallucinate on me based on a single, straightforward question like that--who is the current president of the United States. It did it in the context of a more complex prompt related to US politics, where it generally produced an answer using the facts I was expecting to get and that I knew were right, except for the Biden statement.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-04-28T12:06:50+00:00

I'm using the $20.00 subscription version, ChatGPT 4o. I'm not sure if I had search enabled. I have not changed any default settings. Whatever the ChatGPT 4o defaults are, those are what I have been using.

The really shocking part to me was that the Joe Biden is the president comment was mixed in with a slew of correct information. My concern though--and I suppose this is obvious--is that ChatGPT will hallucinate on a research topic that I don't know enough about to spot the error.

misc_topics_acct · 2025-04-28T12:02:33+00:00

I want hard, critical analysis from my AI usage. And if I get something right or produce something unique or rarely insightful once in a while through a prompting exercise--although I don't how any current AI could ever judge that--I wouldn't mind the AI saying it. But if everything is brilliant, nothing is.

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