RE: [TCLUG:16577] A+ Certification

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

my experience with the HR people at my company is that they are easily
exciteable (good/bad) as a general rule of thumb

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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 "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 jrsmit2@uswest.com wrote:

> 
> "If you are going after a job where there are more than a couple applicants,
> hiring managers are apt to toss out resumes that do not include some kind
> of certification, even though they know them to be 90% a joke.
> Also, some places will toss MCS*, especially for UNIX positions."
> 
> It entirely depends on whether the first line of resume-hunting is HR or the
> actual hiring group.  
> 
> If someone gives me a resume to look at, and there are more certifications
> than the experience warrants: ie, if you're an MCSE, you better have been an
> NT admin, if you're A+, you better have been a hardware tech, or that resume
> is very likely to go into the trash.  If your resume touts certifications
> that have little or nothing to do with the job: for instance A+ on a UNIX
> sysadmin job, it get tossed.  If your resume has too much Microsoft bias on
> it, it gets tossed.  It's OK to be an MCSE, or know Visual C++, but if your
> whole concept of TCP/IP and programming comes from them, you're useless to
> me.
> 
> OTOH, if HR sees these types of things, they get all excited regardless. 
> 
> Jer
> 
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