Vendor independent certifications?

[David Rysdam]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey <tom at 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 with experience.  The certs got looked at if we couldn't find
> experience, but we never did.

Yeah, any resumes that list certificates and have no experience are a
major warning sign that this person knows nothing. If they've recently
graduated, that could be fixable. If they haven't, it probably isn't.