As some of you know, I occasionally have the opportunity to hire
system administrators. I personally prefer that I (or someone on my
team) at least scans all resumes that are submitted. However, that's
not always possible and the in-house recruiters ("HR") must pitch in
to help when the resume load is extreme.
I see (and have made) references to the "HR firewall" and ways to get
your resume through the filter. Two questions that always come up
when HR needs to review resumes are:
1. Degree required or desired, and if so, what kinds?
2. Certifications required or desired, and if so, what kinds?
Since this topic also often comes up on our mailing lists, here's an
unscientific survey:
What's the perception of the value of UNIX and Linux certifications to
practicing system administrators? Not the value to HR, or hiring
managers, or (especially) the certification industry, but to us, the
actual working system administrators.
I've left out certifications that are specific to security, networking
and Windows. Not because they aren't interesting or worth
considering, but I want to concentrate on UNIX and Linux in this
specific survey (since I mostly hire Linux admins). If this survey
gets some interest, then maybe I (or someone else) will do a similar
survey for those areas in the near future.
It's a free SurveyMonkey survey, so only the first 100 responses will count:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QD6LF9H
Disclaimers: This survey is not sponsored by LOPSA, or my employer,
or anyone else.
--tep
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