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Re: [Scottish] wat courses should i take? {Scanned}
Gary, If you need it grab the cert. If not, don't worry about it. Certs are only necessary when job-hunting. They are a ticket, a key and nothing more. But you only know if that the door is locked when you do not have the key. Andrew On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:26:19 +0100, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now I am a tad worried ;) I have been involved in Unix for about 12 years now in various shapes and forms. I have never been on any course for any of the stuff, knowing that I will possibly a) not learn anything drastically new b) be in a class where i will be totally more experienced than the other course takers c) bored to death and lose interest. I am not all that keen on Linux, being a FreeBSD, Solaris fan How does one like me, attain some of these qualifications 'that is desireable' which the pimp will promote to get me a better position? -Gary PS: I am asking this out of curiousity, not that I am unhappy or needing another job.. Peter George wrote: The courses look OK if you are looking for distro/vendor lock in. The high stakes vendor neutral must have cert these days is LPIC. You are more likely to see Junior System Administration jobs specifying at least LPIC1 these days than RedHat or SuSE certification IMHO. Unfortunately, there are no reputable (LATP) UK based courses, yet ;-) HTH P -- Peter George CIW CI Training Manager Net Resources Ltd 26 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AL T: 0131 477 7127 F: 0131 477 7126 http://www.netresources.co.uk ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- MrLithic.blogspot.com ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] wat courses should i take? {Scanned}
Andrew Calverley wrote: If you need it grab the cert. If not, don't worry about it. Certs are only necessary when job-hunting. They are a ticket, a key and nothing more. But you only know if that the door is locked when you do not have the key. fwiw, the job I've just started here at Lumison (née edNET) specified LPIC 2, but my LPIC 1 plus 10+ years experience got me the job. Also, I sat no training courses for my two LPIC exams, I just turned up and passed. I suspect I'd perform favourably for the LPIC 2 exams simply due to my experience - note that I'm not saying I'd definitely pass 100%, just that I reckon I'd do OK :) If any company rejects a job applicant out of hand who looks suitable bar the fact they haven't got a piece of paper saying they or an employer spent £££ on exams, IMO they need a bit of a slap. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] wat courses should i take? {Scanned}
Well, the easiest way would be to just sit the LPI exams at a local exam lab. With 12
years experience you should be in the pass zone, and they a pretty cheap to take.
We'll be running another lab with LPI shortly (just building a better exam booking
system for it right now), exams will cost £50 per paper.
Background information and objectives here: http://www.lpi.org/en/lpic.html
We'll be offering LPIC1 courses later this year, but to be honest, if you haven't been
working as a Junior Sysadmin for several years, a course will not enable you to pass
the exams, there's too much material at too deep a level, nothing counts more than
experience when it comes to these papers, and that's why they are increasingly valued
by employers.
HTH
Regards,
P
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Peter George CIW CI
Training Manager
Net Resources Ltd
26 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AL
T: 0131 477 7127 F: 0131 477 7126
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Subject: Re: [Scottish] wat courses should i take? {Scanned}
Ok, now I am a tad worried ;)
I have been involved in Unix for about 12 years now in various shapes
and forms.
I have never been on any course for any of the stuff, knowing that I
will possibly
a) not learn anything drastically new
b) be in a class where i will be totally more experienced than the other
course takers
c) bored to death and lose interest.
I am not all that keen on Linux, being a FreeBSD, Solaris fan
How does one like me, attain some of these qualifications 'that is
desireable' which the pimp will promote to get me a better position?
-Gary
PS: I am asking this out of curiousity, not that I am unhappy or needing
another job..
Peter George wrote:
The courses look OK if you are looking for distro/vendor lock in.
The high stakes vendor neutral must have cert these days is LPIC.
You are more likely to see Junior System Administration jobs specifying at least
LPIC1 these days than RedHat or SuSE certification IMHO. Unfortunately, there are no
reputable (LATP) UK based courses, yet ;-)
HTH
P
--
Peter George CIW CI
Training Manager
Net Resources Ltd
26 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AL
T: 0131 477 7127 F: 0131 477 7126
http://www.netresources.co.uk
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