Anselm, You were doing great up until you began spouting your "opinion" concerning the lack of value of the "3-in-1 Advantage" certificate partnerships.
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Anselm Lingnau < [email protected]> wrote: > > > The main benefit of this is that you save yourself the trouble of passing > the > separate CLA exam if you intend to obtain further Novell certifications > (CLP, > CLE). With the Novell/SUSE certification programme's ongoing slide into > irrelevance, the predominant object of the freebie seems to be to shore up > the > number of people who are on Novell's books as being »CLA certified«. In > particular, the fact that Novell is prepared to give you a certificate > officially declaring you familiar with an impressive list of SUSE-specific > tools and technologies without actual proof that you've ever even *seen* a > SUSE system from afar should tell you something about what that > certificate is > worth on its own. > Again, your cyncal view doesn't do this partnership justice. Say what you want about SUSE's commercial presence in the market, that's up to them to defend, but when you talk about this partnership and what went into it and what's behind it, that's where I take issue with your proclamations. I ought to know, I trained most of the Novell engineers on the CLP/CLE and had a large hand in forging that relationship, even causing the production of courses such as the 3112, Novell's guide to the LPIC Certification. We spent considerable time and effort making sure that the mappings were clear and valid between the LPIC-1 and CLA/CLP, so that someone approaching this from either angle would have to really know Linux to pass the exams, not just SUSE's flavor and style of Linux. There are a lot of areas where the SUSE CLA/CLP coincide with the LPIC-1 objectives, and though there is a reasonable use of YAST in that environment, the overall difference is slight enough that it's no more different than mapping RHCSA/RHCE to the LPIC objectives. Have you taken the CLA exam and do you know what it tests? Generally, going for the LPIC-1/Linux+/CLA »triple whammy« is probably most > useful if you have a desperate need to fill your vanity wall. The fact that > Linux+ and LPIC-1 are actually the same will not be lost on recruiters, who > will draw their own conclusions about candidates who try to flim-flam them > by > listing both on their resumés, while the freebie CLA certificate will > probably > create an impression not unlike that of a B.A. in advanced frisbee throwing > unless you also have a CLP or CLE certificate to show. > In a heavily-developed and (from your viewpoint) very savvy market such as Central Europe, there is the slight chance that the recruiters will know there is a connection between the Linux+ and the LPIC-1, but you are giving such a massive benefit of the doubt to HR professionals that it takes one's breath away at the largesse involved. Outside of such a market, the level of cluelessness regarding certifications overall is very high, and I have YET to meet any significant number of HR professionals who know anything substantive about certification other than if you have one it's good, if you have two or more it's better... This is the pool of people who will be adding up your experience, skills, certifications etc. and sorting that spreadsheet to find out who gets an interview. The goal of achieving multiple certificates as a whole, and in this case specifically, is to score as many points in the selection process as is necessary to get you into the interview. Where, knowing our candidates as well as I do, they will seriously impress the technical and administrative interviewers with their skills, appropriate levels of competency in dealing with corporate enterprise systems and other qualifications for employment. Maybe everyone in your market is jaded and cynical, but most of the rest of the world is excited about the opportunities for employment and the difference that certification makes, and the 3-in-1 deal is hands-down the most popular deal and set of partnerships that LPI has done in a long time. Ross (Disclaimer: I know I am perceived as speaking for my employer even when I claim I'm not.) Anselm > (Disclaimer: I'm speaking for myself, not for my employer.) > -- > Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & > Netz-Schulungen > [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, > www.linupfront.de > Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany > Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss >
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