On 08/22/2009 05:32 AM, Mark McCullough wrote: > But the person flagged Sun certified as a major item, not a minor > one. I didn't know much about that certification at the time, so I > didn't raise it as a red flag. The person was hired, and then proved > to not have an understanding of basic concepts. They knew some of the > Sun specific commands and file formats, but they didn't know how or > when to use them. > > I think others may have a similar issue. It isn't the certificate > itself that is bad, but the impression of many holders of those > certifications that it implies far greater skill than they actually have.
Yes, agreed, this is what I was getting at as well. Especially the major/minor item in resume (the problem then becomes how to make the certs a big enough item so an HR intern spots them, but small enough not to annoy a technical manager ;-). At another end of a spectrum is a crusty ol' unix hand who doesn't know vendor specific stuff and is not interested to learn it because it wasn't in HPUX/xBSD/Solaris/etc when the world was younger (svcadm, rpm --qf). This is a curious business - everybody in it has an inflated sense of their own skills. And your peers are quick to judge if you don't know the one bit of trivia they consider essential. -Sam. _______________________________________________ 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/
