Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread Chris Linstid
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree) would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree) would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com writes: A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree) would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system administration? She is not mainly

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.orgwrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree)

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread M D L
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500 Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.orgwrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread David Rysdam
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