On 2010 Oct 25, at 15:24, Tom Perrine wrote: > 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.
There is no such thing as a certification that I count as a positive. Anyone who thinks their certification means anything is too junior to understand the basics. If I was feeling particularly ornery, I'd ask HR to filter such individuals out. Every time I work with someone who is certified and thinks it means anything at all, that person is sorely lacking in basic understanding of fundamental concepts of Unix. This includes RHCE, the (formerly) Sun Solaris SA cert (whatever they call it today), etc. This also includes some standard security certifications. Note, I do not have the same view of college degrees. They don't try and make as strong a claim as certification, and require significantly more time involvement and effort to obtain. ---- "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R Murrow (1964) Mark McCullough [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
