IT Certification Less Important Now?

lpq writes "IT certifications, popular after the dot-com bust, seem to be hurting careers now according to this article in the current Eweek.com issue. Guess employers are getting hip to the idea that those who don't have experience or can't "do", get certified..."

write on your resume

[Anonymous Coward]

UNIX and all will be fine.

Great...

[BumpyCarrot]

So now what? All the new bloods have to wait until all the experienced folk die off before they can get a shot at the industry?

Re:Great...

[Serapth]

... or maybe the problem is you type your resume in that font.

Re:Great...

[antifoidulus]

I know! I hear that the spelling classes in ingeneering schools are brutal!

Rule of thumb

[pHatidic]

Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.

Re:Someone tell this to HR.

[Firehed]

I suppose that explains it being absolutely impossible to google stuff about routers as in woodworking tools. Even if you specify woodworking tool, you'll end up getting some case mod where the person used a coping saw and put a router right into the case.

Wet Textiles

[DRAGONWEEZEL]

I just peed my pants... TY for the laugh! (emphasis on WOW as if it allows you to "level up" in RL, er I mean.. Real Life.)

Re:Someone tell this to HR.

[Salgak1]

It was a fairly neat project. Location was good, pay was good, fringes were excellent.

The only real downside was the entire HR section was severely cranial-rectal inverted. . .

Re:Rule of thumb

[pla]

Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you

Although I agree with you in principle...

In practice, the Mauve Dragons of the Middle Management Plateau still yield before my mighty +3 sword of Spam Slaying (and other "useless" security expertise); My dual-classed L2AA/L4BS Geek-of-Many-Colors Resume still slays the trolls of HR; My numerous cross-platform Certs of Knowledge tame the most pernicious NixClone Daemons; And my White Male +30 racial modifier grants me (fair to the other players or not) a bonus to all rolls for find-treasure/performance-evaluation (nullified by any zone of EEOC or an attractive Half-Succubus apprentice competing for limited treasure apportionment).



Now if only I could apply that to WoW, I'd study my ass off for a PhD in Auriculture with a minor in Ebaynics. But let's not get too silly, here!

Re:but seriously

[0xA]

Did it because I could, and because it meant sales for my company, not because I thought it made me any better than I was at the time ('cause I thought I was hot stuff at the time... and, taking, and passing 9 tests, 3 at a time, to become a CNE, without studying, made me so - right? *grin*)

Later, I'd learn how much I didn't know about networking, as the Internet grew - but that's a story for another time :)

I did an interview a couple years ago with a guy that had knocked out all his MS certs in 3 weeks and was pretty proud of it. The guy did have a bit of experience was he was really proud of his what he had done with the certs. I just sat there an smiled while he was going through his spiel and I imagine he figured he's impressed the hell out of me.

Thing was, I was actually thinking back to when I did the same thing at 19 years old. I was pretty much decided that if this guy was only half as clueless as I was at that time he was nothing but a disaster waiting to happen.

Re: Maybe it's not resume padding....

[garaged]

Well, I don't know about others, but I only use root for compiling and running exploits from bugtraq and full-disclosure
thanks !

Re:Correlation != Causation

[Anonymous Coward]

Cry me a river. Try being a lesbian navajo cannibal amputee and an admin. You have it easy by comparison, you insensitive clod!!