Re: [orca-list] Ot: does anyone have a certification from the Linux foundation?

[John Heim <john johnheim net>]

To be clear, I didn't say companies are leaving important positions 
unfilled just because qualified candidates do not have a sheepskin. I 
said the UW is doing that and the point was not so much to say that you 
need to get a degree. It was that there is a shortage of linux systems 
admins around here. In fact, you could say positions are being left open 
even in the private sector. I guess it depends on what you mean by 
leaving a position open but I've talked to recruiters in the area where 
I live. There are a lot of high tech companies around here and they have 
open recruitment of linux systems admins. They are essentially always in 
the market for people with those skills. I wouldn't say they are leaving 
the positions open but they do nearly always have open positions.

On 03/09/2016 02:03 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> Yes, I've heard that the Red Hat certs are porbably the most sought after too.
> They are certainly something in your favor, and some companies that used to require a degree are moving away 
> from that, but you know how some folks and
> organizations are with rules.
> Anyway, trends are just that trends. They can change either slowly shifting or rather drastically overnight, 
> and not everyone goes along with the crowd.
> I can't see a company leaving an important position unfilled for very long just because qualified candidates 
> do not have a sheepskin.
> Just one more comment and I think I'll bow out of this conversation as it is OT and getting pretty long.
> The one thing that I don't remember anyone mentioning but may have missed is private cloud deployment. Quite 
> a few orgs set up their own in house
> colaboration systems. Knowing how to work with large google aps deployments and the like and other public 
> cloudy things can't hurt.
> Free switch and asterix set-up is another one I want to get familiar with.
> Learning how to learn efficiently is just as if not more important than learning a particular task or 
> software configuration.
> Google is our friend, but getting used to working with man and info pages should not be neglected. There is a 
> lot of good and bad information out there,
> and learning how to check it against official docs is vital.
> Good discussion people/thanks again for the interesting thoughts and observations, and especially recent 
> experiences.
>   

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