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

[Jay Scherrer]

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