IT certifications

Anyone have any recommendations?

In roughly 6 months, I will be looking for a better job, and I want the qualifications to get it. If anyone can help, I will greatly appreciate it.

I am absolutely willing to learn Lunix, as I have ample VM capabilities on my current machine,

I just have no idea of what I would need to know in the professional IT field.

Quote from: General Disarray on January 15, 2012, 08:26:17 PM

Anyone have any recommendations?

Learn stuff that's actually useful instead of wasting time chasing bullshit "certifications".

Quote from: General Disarray on January 15, 2012, 08:48:21 PM

In roughly 6 months, I will be looking for a better job, and I want the qualifications to get it. If anyone can help, I will greatly appreciate it.

I got a reasonably well-paying job doing stuff I enjoy in a great work environment, and all I had to back up my skills beyond graduating high school was a passion for computers and a few contributions to open-source software. Granted, I spent a year doing level 1 support before I was able to move up the ladder a bit, but I took the job knowing that there was room to move up.

If you know what you're doing, you don't need certifications. If you don't know what you're doing, no certification will save you.

Quote from: General Disarray on January 15, 2012, 08:48:21 PM

I am absolutely willing to learn Lunix, as I have ample VM capabilities on my current machine,

If you're only willing to learn Unix, you're going to have a very hard time keeping up. There are those of us who use Unix all the time because we enjoy it, and as a natural result of that we learn new things about it; and then there are those who use it because they think they need to know it in order to get a good job. You strike me as the latter type, and being "willing" to learn to use it reinforces that impression.

Quote from: General Disarray on January 15, 2012, 08:48:21 PM

I just have no idea of what I would need to know in the professional IT field.

Irrelevant. This thread is about IT certifications, which have absolutely nothing to do with what you know or don't know.

Do you just really enjoy making people hate you?

I would prefer to make myself as attractive as possible.

Although clumsily, Parsifal makes a valid point. Are you a boyscout or an IT professional? This sounds like collecting badges. Not gathering useful skills. Education is a commercial product and there are a fair few crap products on the market. When someone tells you they are a "Microsoft Certified Professional" do you think "oooo, wow" or do you think "So you can use windows. Well done. "

There is a world of difference between these badges and qualifications. If you are going to invest time, I'd look to get a qualification.

You guys aren't thinking like HR people, you're thinking like computer people. This is the flaw.

HR and administration in general probably doesn't know a serial port from a floppy drive. Being able to say "oh I've been repairing PCs since Dos 2.0 came out" is worthless. Especially if you can't prove it on a piece of paper (resume).

To get that first job you either need connections or a piece of paper that tells managers and administrators that you know your stuff.

Quote from: Lorddave on January 16, 2012, 12:52:26 PM

You guys aren't thinking like HR people, you're thinking like computer people. This is the flaw.

HR and administration in general probably doesn't know a serial port from a floppy drive. Being able to say "oh I've been repairing PCs since Dos 2.0 came out" is worthless. Especially if you can't prove it on a piece of paper (resume).

To get that first job you either need connections or a piece of paper that tells managers and administrators that you know your stuff.

Or an employer that's not dumb enough to hire people who know nothing about the job to interview candidates.

Such places are few and far between. Best to have the paper to impress the stupid, but powerful people.

itt: people completely ignoring the OP request because they don't have any answers, so just starting arguments.

Wait, that's every thread. Carry on.

Quote from: Kasroa Is Gone on January 16, 2012, 02:34:14 PM

itt: people completely ignoring the OP request because they don't have any answers, so just starting arguments.

Wait, that's every thread. Carry on.

I did not ignore him.  I'm even helping him.

Quote from: Lorddave on January 16, 2012, 02:57:21 PM

Quote from: Kasroa Is Gone on January 16, 2012, 02:34:14 PM

itt: people completely ignoring the OP request because they don't have any answers, so just starting arguments.

Wait, that's every thread. Carry on.

I did not ignore him.  I'm even helping him.

You are making a mockery of the website, anymore of this insolence and you will be banned.

ITT: Karsoa is Gone derails a useful thread by complaining about how it has been derailed.

You guys aren't thinking like HR people, you're thinking like computer people. This is the flaw.

HR and administration in general probably doesn't know a serial port from a floppy drive. Being able to say "oh I've been repairing PCs since Dos 2.0 came out" is worthless. Especially if you can't prove it on a piece of paper (resume).

To get that first job you either need connections or a piece of paper that tells managers and administrators that you know your stuff.

As for this thread it just proves this technical area has no benefit whatsoever. No one ever helps. Its just a place where people who pretend to know about PCs prattle on about morality and how clever they are...[Y]ou are a bunch of dunces. You know nothing. You are all bull-shitters.

Put makeup on for you job interview. Works every time.

No one laughed at my joke the first time, so here's a reminder:
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Quote from: EnglshGentleman on January 16, 2012, 06:00:15 AM

Put makeup on for you job interview. Works every time.