[SunRescue] OT: Advice on Certification

[Gil Young]

I would say it looks nice, but I wouldnt shun anyone without certs.  The
sharpest person I knew at UNIX 6-7 years ago never had even one
certification, but he could code on the Linux kernel.  I would hire him in a
heartbeat if I could. If there was a position open at my company and you
were interviewing with me, I would probably run you by my sharpest UNIX guys
to get his feelings about you, and/or give you a hands-on test of my own,
and grade you more on how you worked on the problem rather than if you
figured it out or not (some of the problems would be rather tricky :)).

P.S. The classical definition of class C, this has actually bitten me on
older routers that had older code, if you know what I mean :).  Thank God
for Y2K, I actually got to get rid of all the old router crap finally!
Before that, well, try explaining the classical definition of class C in old
router code and future interoperability to financial people :p.

Gil Young
Call Sign: KG4KVX
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Dunbar <Brian.Dunbar at Plexus.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] OT: Advice on Certification


> <Brian> Hi, my name is Brian, and I'm an . . . NT Administrator <choke>.
> <Room> Hi Brian!
>
> The company I used to work for (pre-Layoff) sent me to Solaris Admin I and
> II.  I flubbed the Admin I test, then was laid off . . and found a much
> better job (this one) handling a mixed network of NT and Solaris systems
..
> and somehow it's most of a year later and I'll loose the voucher unless I
> take the test in the next few months.
>
> I _want_ my next job to be much more involved with 'unix' so my question
is
> .. how important ARE credentials to the people doing hiring for unix
admins?
>
> I'm going to take the tests (but I don't *like* tests) I'm just looking
for
> .. encouragement?  Someone to give me a kind word? (did I say I don't like
> tests?)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Brian
> brian.dunbar at plexus.com
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