Hi again.
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 06:55, Ottavio Caruso < [email protected]> wrote: > > There are people like me who _did_ have a career in IT ages ago and had > to have a long break (due to either bad luck or their own fault) and are > trying to get back into the industry. Your situation is already too advanced for StartIT, because you already chose IT as a career path (and then stepped away for a while). StartIT is designed for people who don't know if they want a career in IT, or engineering, or medicine, or chemistry, or legal etc. They will have to start basically from scratch because, as you know, > recruiters are almost always IT- or Open Source- illiterate and they have > no clue of what to make of your "open source evangelism" back 15-20 years > ago. They have no clue because "evangelism" isn't typically a technical job skill, in a business that often is part of marketing rather than IT operations. Bob Young, the founder of Red Hat, was one of the best evangelists the FOSS world has known, yet he'd be lost at a shell prompt. If I sound negative, it's because I am. It hurts when you think you have > skills but you can't prove them or build upon them, or maybe I don't > really have skills and am just overestimating myself. > That's supposedly the role of the certifications, to prove you have the skills that employers demand. It's also a matter of matching the skills you have to the ones that are in demand today. You could be the best Fortran programmer or Xenix sysadmin in the world, but the number of your potential employers is small and shrinking (though if you found those employers you might be highly prized among them because that skill is also becoming more rare along with the demand). Cheers, -- Evan Leibovitch Director of Community Development Linux Professional Institute Toronto, Canada [email protected] <[email protected]>
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