[TriLUG] Career planning - certs(?)

[Matthew Pusateri]

well said

On Sep 21, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Greg Cox wrote:

>> Work on your skills, volunteer if you have to.  Beef up your
>> resume with actual knowledge.
>>
>> Having interviewed several hundred people, knowledge
>> impresses me over paper.
>
> I'll second what Matt's said, with a little more.  One of the things
> I ask in every interview is "Tell me about your home network."
>
> There's plenty of sysadmin-y things you could run that would let you
> pick up some knowledge that might help you get in the door.
> Set up a server.  LVM your partitions.  Set up automounting your
> home directory across boxes.  Run your own internal DNS.  Set up
> a DHCP server.  LDAP your userids.  Set up serial consoles to
> everything.  Set up apache and mysql and a wiki.  Document your
> changes.  Get some cheap managed cisco switches off ebay and VLAN
> your servers from your desktops.  Set up a backup rotation.  Set
> up monitoring for all the services you just spun up.
>
> There's plenty you can learn at home for far less than an RHCE costs,
> and it gets you buzzwords for resume fodder.
>
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