Linux Certification

[Leo Mauler]

I smell "Catch-22": certs are useless, don't get them
first; but there's no other way to prove to an
employer that you know something...other than getting
a job which requires that you prove what you know,
except you can't without a cert which is useless to
get the job you need to prove you can do something...

I mean, the only alternative is to occasionally take
two years off every decade and re-take an A.A.S. in IT
(guess what I'm doing...).

Personally, I'd think that any "hands-on" cert is
still worth something.  This would include Cisco and
RHCE/RHCT.  There at least you can point to a cert and
say "I had to demonstrate real-world knowledge to get
it, not just write down answers on a test."  Granted,
Cisco is probably an employer-sends-you-to-it cert, at
about $1500 to take the whole thing, but you can still
get that RHCE/RHCT cert for less than $300.

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> I've been watching the certification saga, both
> Linux and otherwise, for a while now.
 
> Certification is something you do within a position,
> not as a qualification for a new position, not as a
> ticket to the next job.
> 
> I think that's where it remains, and when someone
> asks "what's a good certification to go for?", I 
> say "Whatever your employer will send you to".  
> If you don't have the qualifications to get the 
> job without the cert, if the prospective employer 
> isn't convinced that certification is a formality, 
> for you, and isn't willing to pay for it, I think 
> it's a bad gamble.

> Get the job first, then worry about the
> certification.


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