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Must have UNIX Experience!?

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by livelove_laugh

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Why are employers always looking for personnel with UNIX experience. For instance, a student just graduated with BSCIS and they really don't have much more than lab time experience with UNIX. What is wrong with hiring that person and training themas they go along to that companies specific use of UNIX?

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by dr.debugger

Would you hire a maid if you had to teach them how to use the vacuum cleaner or how to turn on a facet? Of course not. So why expect an IT employer to hire someone that doesn't have all the training needed to do the job. This is true in every type of business. You bring someone into the company to perform a service, not to be charitable or to start a friendship. There are too many vocational schools and college courses that can supply the missing training. From the employee?s perspective, you should go to work to earn money ? period! Enhance your career on your own time and, in business term, at your own capitol expense.

by livelove_laugh

Dr. Debugger, you state get more training, again that says the same thing I asked, training at the level you mentioned is or was received in the BSCIS program. This does not give one experience only more training. The experience question is still there. Needless to say, I convinced an employer to hire me and proved that my college training was good enough and more than enough to get the job done. This changed this very well known companies way of hiring. Thanks to me.

by ddunkink

I have been a CNE for two years. I still spend most of my free time studying and learning. My network is heterogenious ( sp ) because there are OS`s that handle certain tasks and apps better than others. My employer has given me an ultimatum of certify in UNIX ( any ) and Windows 2000 by Jan 2002 or else. But then again they will pay for my courses also. If they are willing to buy the training I`m going to take advantage of it. I started with Linux and am now on to Solaris 7.I use OpenBSD firewalls, Linux for centralized routing, Sun on another firewall-1 to a WAN and Novell 5.0 on the LAN with NT4.0 and 2000 as apps servers. But UNIX is VERY powerfull. I would suggest all system admins know this OS. I would also talk to my employer about continueing education before I went to work for them. There are alot of savey CIO`s that know the importance of education.

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