[Gllug] Linux Certification Opinions or facts please?

[Ryan Cartwright]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:51:58AM +0100, Ryan wrote:
>>> I do not expect any qualification to substitute for experience.
>> This was going to be my point - experience will almost always win over
>> qualifications. As an employer[2] I've sifted through many applications
>> that had "I'm currently studying for LPI" on them. Most of those were
>> clearly just attempts to satisfy our requirement for Linux experience
>> (e.g. they had no experience at all) but those who had experience and
>> also were studying for LPI (oddly nobody has ever applied who actually
>> *has* it).
> 
> I don't think everybody who takes the LPIC exams does so as a substitute 
> for experience; some people do it because they have experience but no 
> qualifications and want to address that.

I agree and I did say *most* of the *ones I came across* and that those
were "I am currently studying for" rather than "I have". IME the former
of those two means they knew they didn't meet the Linux requirement and
were chucking LPI in there as a soother. These people are normally found
out if they make it to interview. Little experience + three weeks into
the LPI = "come back later" to me. :o)
As I said later in my post, I would happily accept an LPI qualification
as an edge where two people had similar experience but where one has
experience but no LPI and the other has LPI but limited experience I
would probably lean towards the former.
-- 
Ryan Cartwright
http://www.cafamily.org.uk/oss
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