[TriLUG] Career planning - certs(?)

[William Sutton]

I disagree that anything done at home/in your spare time doesn't count.

What you do at home (or in professional training, etc.) outside of work 
should be resume material if it supports your professional skills.  I'm 
not a sysadmin (nor do I play one on TV), but my home sysadmin experience 
has been useful in professional settings (example:  replicating the 
company's production environment onto my Linux workstation as a 
development environment).  In fact, "independent study" (as I have 
sometimes couched it on my resume) gives you opportunities to add 
potentially useful skills (either for the current job *or* for the next 
one) that you may not have the opportunity to practice while on the job.

Put it down as independent study.  List it as you would accomplishments at 
your place of employment.  If the employer disagrees, that's their loss.

William Sutton

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Kristopher Kane wrote:

>>
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>> There's plenty you can learn at home for far less than an RHCE costs,
>> and it gets you buzzwords for resume fodder
>
>
> With that said, what can you put on your resume that is learned in the home
> lab?  I realize knowledge is knowledge regardless of where you learned it,
> but if I setup LDAP at home and my 8 year olds uses it to login, that
> doesn't exactly count as experience.  I believe in certain certifications
> because they put a professional face on your home grown experience.
>
> -Kane
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