On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past. In the dot com era, we
would sort resumes by lots of certs and experience. Then we looked at
the resumes
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:05:19 -0500, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org
wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past. In the dot com era, we
In my experience, in the Unix/Linux marketplace for developers, I have
not really seen where certifications are meaningful. Even in the area of
system admins, things change so fast that certifications don't mean that
much. There are some areas where certifications help, but that is in the
What Jerry just said.
Working in IT on and off since 1984 and looking at, starting, and trying to
complete, several certification paths during that time, it was more or less
a fool's game. No sooner did we come close to finishing a cert, in Windows
NT, for example, then Microsoft had a whole new
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:30:19 -0500, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
As I alluded to above, IMHO, certifications tend to be living in the
past. Things change so fast in our industry that by the time a
certification qual is developed and made available, and people take it,
things are already
On 03/09/2012 12:07 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:30:19 -0500, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
As I alluded to above, IMHO, certifications tend to be living in the
past. Things change so fast in our industry that by the time a
certification qual is developed and made
