Yeah...certifications alone aren't enough....because this other department (that we have to work with) hired a certified Solaris System administrator. A few months later he said he wanted a Solaris system of his own to working on. Well, he had a Sun Ultra 20 on his desk. Sure all the systems were scrubbed when previous user was terminated...so we weren't sure why he was making the request, but we burned a DVD for him and gave it to him....
Later he finally came back saying he didn't know how to install Solaris. Later we learned that he used to work for Sun, but as first line support.... > > This is the thing; and I think that when I say 'certifications are > stupid' > I am missing the point. > > Yes, certifications/licencing/whatever at best only certify a > slightly higher level of mediocraty. And if I'm hiring a SysAdmin? > I can evaluate far better than any certification test I've ever seen. > > I think it's unrealistic to think you can create a certification > that is better at picking good people than someone who is experienced > in the field. > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: [email protected] Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
