On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:05:19 -0500, "Brian St. Pierre" <br...@bstpierre.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote: > >> I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past. In the dot com era, we > >> would sort resumes by "lots of certs" and experience. Then we looked at > >> the resumes with experience. The certs got looked at if we couldn't find > >> experience, but we never did. > > > > Yeah, any resumes that list certificates and have no experience are a > > major warning sign that this person knows nothing. If they've recently > > graduated, that could be fixable. If they haven't, it probably isn't. > > Even recent graduates have no excuse to not show some kind of > experience. Except for the hardware, all the pieces are freely > available, and with a bit of creativity/networking/paying attention > you can even come up free hardware. (I'd be willing to bet an old > computer (or sufficient parts to reconstitute same) that a request > sent to this list by a resource-starved student looking for free > hardware to use for learning would turn up more than one offer.)
Yes, that's probably true. I guess I was relying on the last time I did major sifting-through of resumes, when computers weren't so cheap and Free software less well-known. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/