Re: How important is RH certification?

On 27 Aug 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<1156732413.153778.122250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zcarenow@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

I would just like to get opinions about the RH certification. How
important is it in the industry? Is it like what the MCSE used to be
for MS? I don't see it publicized alot.

As a general statement, there are two kinds of job requirements, and they
are _usually_ pretty easily identified. There are the technical ones,
specified by the technical people you may be working with. Then there
are the requirements put in by the bean-counters in HR. Certification
(unless required by law, or by _their_ customer) is nearly always a
bean counter requirement.

Obviously, experience is more important,

Bingo!

but give some opinions if it is asked of in your city as far as job
requirements when seeking employment.

I don't see all that much of certification requirements. To some extent
it's because the technical types are paying closer attention to the stuff
that HR is adding to the ads. (We had to have words with an HR newbie who
added a MS-Word requirement to a job description - even though we don't use
microsoft software. She had thought it was routine.)

I know where i live, Linux jobs in general, is steadily growing as far
as job opportunity, but i have rarely seen one that requires RH
certification. I've only seen 2-3 positions that require it over the past
2 yrs. Thanks.

Certification _usually_ (there are exceptions) means that you memorized some
stuff well enough to pass a test of some kind. Is the test relevant? Is the
stuff memorized relevant? In most cases I'm aware of, it's not. In _some_
cases (MS and Novell being two examples), the material may not only be
useless, it may be flat out wrong.

A minor problem with Red Hat certification (as opposed to other more generic
Linux certifications) is that the certification is aimed at knowing Red Hat
Linux. That's great, but that's pretty useless if you don't have the Red Hat
tools, because someone is using Debian, Mandriva, Slackware or SuSE, never
mind running into any _other_ UNIX.

Old guy
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