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

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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  Alex Midence wrote:
Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 01:27:33PM -0600


I think there's one or two out there that are pretty simple but the ones everyone respects are the Redhat 
certifications and the LPI ones.  I've heard the Redhat ones are pretty   hard and, from what I've seen 
looking over the LPI prep materials, that one is pretty extensive.  I can't imagine that test will be 
passed by someone who doesn't know what they are doing.  


-----Original Message-----
From: B. Henry [mailto:burt1iband gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 1:01 PM
To: Alex Midence; orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ot: does anyone have a certification from the Linux foundation?

From what I hear the companies that want a degree would not be swayed by a cert in most cases. 
The certs are gravy, but while of valule less looked for than they may have been a few years ago. 
Of course none of this is written in stone across the board, and individual company policy and possible 
exceptions to it will vary.


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  Alex Midence wrote:
Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 12:04:01PM -0600


Bummer.  So, you could have someone who is perfectly knowledgeable, perfectly competent but who won't get 
hired because he or she doesn't have a BS degree.  Wow.  Maybe the lpi Certification might make the 
difference for somebody like that then.  

-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of John 
Heim
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 11:40 AM
To: orca
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ot: does anyone have a certification from the Linux foundation?

Well, I don't know anything about certifications but  I work as the linux admin for the Math Department 
at the University Of Wisconsin. 
Managing the mail, print, database, and web servers isn't even that big a part of my job. I do all that 
but I also manage the research cluster for the faculty. We have some machines with 32 to 40 cores that 
are tied into everybody's office computer so they can use their office machine as a node on the cluster. 
It's all linux. As you may know, almost all high performance computing is done on linux computers. 
Anyway, my point is that I almost never have accessibility problems.  For a career for a blind person, I 
think linux systems admin is about as level a playing surface as you are going to find.
I am not sure what the demand is for linux systems admins in other parts of the world but around here 
it's really high. Jobs go unfilled for years because of the lack of qualified candidates. This is a 
university town and that is what accounts for the demand. The university creates it's share of jobs but 
many are also created by businesses spun off of the university. All the jobs around here, even most of 
those in the private sector, require a BS degree or better.

On 03/08/2016 02:27 PM, austinAustin quesada wrote:

Hi. I figured i would ask this here, as i trust this community to 
give me some honest answers. So, recently, i have been looking in to 
being certifyed from the Linux foundation, for employment purposes. 
From what i gather, there is quite a demand for Linux systems 
admins, and the pay is quite good here in the US. I'm wondering 
though if this type of job would be practical using speakup and or 
orca to manage a stable server environment, assuming of course that 
i actually land the job? Any thoughts on the matter would be much 
appreciated. Also feel free to share experiences and the like. Thanks.
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