[ILUG-Social] Linux Certification

[Ronan Herron]

I take your point Steve. Yes hopefully it will make me stand out among other 
prospective applicants, but perhaps not enough to differentiate me from 
someone who has more commercial experience. Having said all that, at the 
moment there doesn't seem to be much hiring going on in the Linux world, (or 
in the general IT world for that matter). So what to do -   there are of 
course the Universities - always loads of Linux interest there, and IT 
Training - two avanues not yet exhaustively investigated...

"a company which uses Linux regularly they will always be more impressed with 
experience and aptitude. They wont be as likely to take the cert at face 
value."

this to me is very telling. Whilst it is more than fair to equate experience 
with aptitude, it is not always borne out in reality. A sys admin may have a 
few years experience in a large company and yet never do much more than add 
and delete a few users, a bit of back-up, some mail trouble-shooting perhaps. 
I say this only because I know it to be true of one or two places I've 
contracted.  .......and the old story........The corollary being that if you 
dont have the experience it makes it much more difficult to get the job to 
get the experience, to get the job, da dah da dha yada yada.......although 
you may have the aptitude, which is as yet untested, but certified


pass the laminate

RonanH



On Thursday 25 October 2001 16:32, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Stephen_Reilly at dell.com>
> To: <ronan_herron at esatclear.ie>; <social at linux.ie>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:40 PM
> Subject: RE: [ILUG-Social] Linux Certification
>
> > The answer to this is quite simple. If the type of company you wish
> > to be employed by have little or no knowledge of Linux the certification
> > will be a nice carrot to dangle in front of them. If it's a large
> > company, the interviewer has an easy justificatio to hire you, and it
> > makes you
>
> stand
>
> > out among oither CVs. However, if you are to be hired by a company which
> > uses Linux regularly they will always be more impressed with experience
>
> and
>
> > aptitude. They wont be as likely to take the cert at face value.
> > Having said that, I'd like to have it written down somewhere that I
> > know a wee bit about the OS, maybe an emblem on the sheet, maybe even
> > lamenated.
> >
> > steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ronan Herron [mailto:ronan_herron at esatclear.ie]
> > Sent: 24 October 2001 20:51
> > To: social at linux.ie
> > Subject: [ILUG-Social] Linux Certification
> >
> >
> > I'm wondering how Linux Certification measures up in the opinion of the
>
> list
>
> > members. Why? ,...well I just sat and passed the first exam on the road
> > to LPIC certification (wa-heeey!), yet when I pick up Industry Journals,
> > increasingly I see Red Hat Certification touted as the de facto Linux
> > certification. And while I'm at it, I'm an ex-contractor looking for a
> > job(hopefully with an Linux-using, Open Source- inclined Company, tall
>
> order
>
> > perhaps?), hence LPIC 101 exam, if anyone has any suggestion feel free to
> > mail me
> >
> > RonanH
> >
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