SPUG: FW: Giving up on computer jobs & usefulness of placement firms

[Peter Darley]

Jay,
	I didn't mean say that the certifications were a red flag.  The red flag is
the reliance on the certifications in the absence of other support.  If
someone has a certification, plus professional or non-professional
experience, it's certainly not a mark against them.  With me it's also not a
mark for them either, as my opinion of technical certifications is, as they
say, piss poor.
Thanks,
Peter Darley

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[mailto:spug-list-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Jay Scherrer
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:36 AM
To: Peter Darley
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Subject: Re: SPUG: FW: Giving up on computer jobs & usefulness of
placement firms


On Wednesday 13 August 2003 09:08 am, Peter Darley wrote:

> 	The thing that is the biggest red flag to me is an applicant who focuses
a
> lot on their industry certifications (especially MCSEs).  Having them
isn't
> a mark against them, but if it's what they put forward as proof that they
> know what they're doing that tells me that they probably don't have much
> real world experience, weather it's at work, school, noodling around at
> home, etc.

I have been wrestling the idea of getting certified with either Perl or
Linux.
I didn't know this would be a red flag :-(
Would it be better to show from SourceForge or similar?
Just curious, once my house is done I'll be trying enter the job market. Any
help for preparing would be helpful.

Jay
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