Vendor independent certifications?

Brian St. Pierre brian at bstpierre.org
Fri Mar 9 09:05:19 EST 2012


On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
> 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.

Even recent graduates have no excuse to not show some kind of
experience. Except for the hardware, all the pieces are freely
available, and with a bit of creativity/networking/paying attention
you can even come up free hardware. (I'd be willing to bet an old
computer (or sufficient parts to reconstitute same) that a request
sent to this list by a resource-starved student looking for free
hardware to use for learning would turn up more than one offer.)



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