Sounds like a guy who doesn't know what he's doing. But MCSEs (or CCNAs or CISSPs) aren't tested on whether you can create shortcuts on desktops.
Someone who's just read a bunch of books and then gone and passed some exams probably isn't going to be able to do a lot in a practical situation. But there are plenty of people who have practical experience who don't understand the theory behind what they are doing. Cheers Ken From: Jacob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 6 February 2009 9:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SUSPECT: RE: MCSE question We hired an MCSE who did not know how to create a shortcut on a desktop. Not kidding. Really.. not kidding. He lasted about one week. From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SUSPECT: RE: MCSE question For the most part I'm a firm believer that Certs and Test's are no longer what they used to be. I've been doing IT for around 15+ years, I had an MCP, never bothered to make it into an MCSE. It wasn't worth it to me. I wouldn't have learned nothing taking a class that I didn't learn from mentors / peers / my own research and reading. Requiring an MCSE for a position is a joke, would you pay the person more? Salaries rarely ever go up it you take Certs. Let me tell you a quick story about certs I was working for a company once and I was the supervisor of a 5 person desktop IT team. They decided to hire a more senior guy once one of my team members left, I wasn't involved in the process except for giving my bosses needs /wants for the position. Well they hired an MCSE guy that had more certs that I could shake a stick at. Well after about two months of working together and him consistently failing to do simple things, like If 4 of us could print and he couldn't he would start taking the printer network device apart since that had to be the problem. I sat down and drilled him about his skills , prior to his hiring he was a carpenter but decided to switch jobs he did a 6 month tech stint a small company as desktop support and then took a Boot camp MCSE, which was the major factor in the hiring process that my bosses used. He was USELESS! From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SUSPECT: RE: MCSE question Someone who knows what they're doing should be able to demonstrate that they can do that without an MCSE. I know a bunch of REALLY good Windows people who have no MS certs and never will. Likewise, someone who knows pretty much nothing but is good at taking tests can be an MCSE without much trouble. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
