On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:12:31 -0800 "Nick Webb" <webbn at acm.org> wrote: > On 12/5/06, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote: > > Then again, with your eight years of experience, do you really think > > that a professional certificate will make a difference? Any reasonable > > manager who understands Unix/Linux should have no problem hiring you on > > that basis. > > Thanks for your comments. While I have 8 years of total IT > experience, only 2 years was on Unix (part time undergrad job), no > enterprise Linux experience. I think you are right, though, if a > manager understands Unix/Linux I should be able to convice them of my > compentency without a peice of paper. Actually, an increasing number of managers do not look at certification. There are a lot of people who boast with their certification, but have little experience. Being able to solve a problem quickly in a competent manner is much more important than learning facts by heart. We have references for that ;). At any rate, getting back on-topic: maybe it would be nice to have a job section somewhere (e.g. the Wiki?). At the NetBSD project we have a job mailinglist, and it has proven to be a good way for people to get a job related to their favorite project :^). And I am convinced that there are a lot of companies out there that'd love to get experienced CentOS administrators. -- Daniel