From: Bernd Felsche <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au> Message-Id: <200011260927.RAA04030@flywheel.innovative.iinet.net.au> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:27:55 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [SLE] Linux Certifications dukeofchurchill tapped away at the keyboard with:
Has anyone looked into or been certified with any of the available Linux Certifications ( SAIR, Redhat, other)? If so how through were they? How useful were they when applying for a UNIX Sys Admin position? Would you do it again?
Such certificates are only worthwhile if you're trying to penetrate a wall of human-resource people. If I were to employ somebody, I'd be disinclined to hire anybody with such a certificate and little else to show. Perhaps I'm just cynical about the process of certification where the applicant has to know how to pass the certification process.
I am thinking of using a program such as Sair to instruct Home School High School students on Unix System Administration.
Russell Boyd
I have no idea what's in that programme. If it doesn't involve a groups of six or so students where one is assigned the task of administrator (on a rotating basis) and the others act as clueless jerks (one of the "jerks" being the team manager) asking for the impossible whilst doing their best to screw up their small network of random "workstations" and peripherals; then the programme falls short of any practical application. Those aware of the painful reality of the suggested environment have my sympathy. If you can't write your own 5 chapters (at least) of BOFH, then you're too "green". :-) -- /"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia \ / ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus! | X against HTML mail | Copy me into your ~/.signature| / \ and postings | to help me spread! |