On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Evan Pettrey wrote:
I'm interested in hearing what everybody thinks about the value of
certifications in today's workplace. Do you feel they are worth the money
and time involved in obtaining them? How valuable are they in the
marketplace? When you are hiring an IT professional, do you place any value
in them?
Heh.
From a hiring standpoint, I don't tend to give most certifications much
merit, unless there's enough else in the resume to suggest accompanying
clue -- it's far too easy to study to a test, and forget everything.
I'm not sure if this has been discussed in the past but I don't recall
seeing the discussion before and wanted to see what everybody thought.
It's one of _those_ topics -- and the folk that have posted about it
thus far have done a fine job of summarizing the general arguments.
Beyond what's already been said, I also find that one way to get a good
idea about the relative merits of a given cert is to look for people
that advertise themselves as having that certification (CISSP is a good
one to search on, in terms of people adding the alphabet soup to their
signatures), to get some idea of the general level of clue associated
with that particular cert.
There are also, unfortunately, things like Cisco's CCIE, that were
originally exceedingly hard to get, and a guarantee of clue -- but based
on my experiences with folks carrying high CCIE numbers, have failed
to maintain that high standard.
I see that there's a new cert from Cisco called the CCAr now, which is
supposed to exceed the CCIE requirements, and that Cisco's also split
the CCIE into a zillion sub-versions, which could explain the decline in
quality, and also smacks of your basic MAKEMONEYFAST kicking in.
cheers!
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