| Certs help you get the interview, they don't mean you can do the job and that's the real crux of them. Most (not all) are pointless multiple guess waste of time and passable by anybody compitent after they have drunk a bottle of vodka, been up for 5 days straight etc etc. Some are actualy using real good practical exams and those have some crdability though they are few and washed by the tarnshish of certs being crap since the MCSE multiple guess muppet days. I've been a situation were the MCSE guru was unable to resolve a windows problem and me as the UNIX guru solved in a minute using common sence and understanding computers. That to me highlighted why alot of certs are bad. Now sadly certs help you get past the HR people who have no clue about IT and over the past 10-20 years grown into a egotistical power-house that controls things they have no clue upon. 20 years ago I had a job interview, I was in my late teens and was a etchnical position. HR interviewed me first and there attitude was so sucking even saying I dont see why somebody your age should be paid this amount. i then had te technical interview with the person who was the manager for the job and his contractor and blew them both away with my skills that they offered me more than I was asking for. I turned them down just becasue the HR department pissed me off that much. So Brown and Root engineering, you missed out there. Sadly HR have grown and so have a whole generation of IT managers who don't know IT or can use word and think that is knowing IT. These sadly have no clue and will look at a CV for certs. Bottom line if they need certs then generaly they are not a company that you want to work for and if they dont demand certs and do proper technical interviews/screening, then they are the ones you want to be working for. Anything else is extra crap/stress you will never be paid to endure. Remember that there is only one real certification that carry's any real weight and needs to be respected and that is the certification of sane and insane. Respect them both as one bites and the other knows somebody who bites. How to get a interview and bypass HR, now that is a certification I'd study for thesedays. |