Re: becoming a Sun Certified Java Programmer?

Christopher L Merrill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.trijug.juglist
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim Jowers wrote:
> Few to no jobs you want as
> a coder will filter on a cert like this. Those that do are not run by
> people who know software development. 

I must strongly disagree with this!

I have worked in many organizations that had a good IT department but was
handcuffed by boneheads in the HR department.  HR needed to filter the
resumes (usually by keywords that they didn't understand) so that they could
feel important.  Due to the politics, IT could not overcome this.  This had
NOTHING to do with how much the hiring manager or project managers or anyone
else in IT knew about software development.

Getting the right keywords onto the resume is crucial to getting past the HR
filters.  For this, certifications DO matter!


Chris


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