CERTS are a joke
Certifications cannot and will never substitute for real experience. They are a result of the glut of "wannabe" computer people flooding IT in the early to mid 90's. This cascading failure of resume padding and outright misrepresenting resulted in HR getting involved in the hiring process, with certifications being the new panacea to select candidates.
Of the people I know who have certs (and lots of them) most cannot find their way out of the parking lot let alone fix anything or code.
Certs are merely a tool used by non technical people to screen technical people....nothing less nothing more. These things would have "withered on the vine" except people who took and passed the test use them as a "club" or "shared suffering" type of thing when selecting new people, Like minds think alike......
Certs are Novell's legacy.....I knew this was a problem since the CNE came out (in 1993?)
