Vendor independent certifications?

[David Rysdam]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:05:19 -0500, "Brian St. Pierre" <brian at bstpierre.org> wrote:
> 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.)

Yes, that's probably true. I guess I was relying on the last time I did
major sifting-through of resumes, when computers weren't so cheap and
Free software less well-known.