On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote: > And certifications are not? all other things being equal, listing a > certification usually makes me think less of a canidate (I mean, unless > I'm looking for a job where rote memorization and following the script > is what the customer wants; especially in large corporations, sometimes > following the script is extremely important. In those cases, yeah, go > certification.)
So the fact that someone has a certification means they are less capable than someone who doesn't? I don't get it. I certainly respect some of the Cisco certifications and I think fairly highly of someone with a RHCA. If those sorts of things are a negative in your shop, it sounds like a place I really wouldn't want to work. I do know that I have had to clean up far too many disasters caused by cowboy sysadmins who thought they were a lot smarter than they really were. Mainly ones who didn't believe that they needed to do any planning and just made it up as they went along. I'm confident that I already know most of the materiel that will be covered in a six day "boot camp" course, but I don't know it all. Maybe a CISSP will help me get security issues across to the PHBs who have no technical clue. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
