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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? The Benefits or Not of Certification (was LPIC certification) Post 302886499 by Neo on Saturday 1st of February 2014 03:05:06 AM
Old 02-01-2014
Frankly speaking, I'm not very keen on certifications.

When I am in hiring mode and interviewing technical people, I have found that people with a lot of certifications on paper are less likely to be very good at the job than someone who has bone fide real project and application development experience.

I've seen candidates, in the past, with a resume full of certifications, and not a single verifiable project of any substance, ever completed. It's really annoying.

A few years ago I travelled to "a particular country" and interviewed folks for a technical position developing vBulletin mods for us using PHP. Many people had lots of certifications and listed vBulletin and PHP on their resume; but when I asked them to execute the most simplest task on the white board, all failed.

That is why the trend for years with busy hiring managers has not been "certifications" but verifiable contributions to significant projects, including open source projects.

I know many hiring managers that will not hire any new (not well experienced) developer or system admin who does not have strong contributions to open source or similar projects on their resume.


My experience is that certifications are nearly "worthless" on a resume; but having strong completed, verifiable projects in a portfolio, even if volunteer (free) open source contributions is very strong on a resume.

In other words, if you want to easily get a job in a technical field, get real hands on experience even it if means working for free as a volunteer for an open source or similar project. You will get a lot of good references (from your team members) and verifiable coding and admin experience. You will more-than-likely get your name on the code you help write. This is much, much more important that a resume full of "alphabet soup" certifications and acronyms.

Think of it like this:

You want to be a pro football player. First, you starting playing with your family when very young; and then you join your school teams. It's when you are playing for your "school teams" (or non-paid leagues) where you get your experience and develop your reputation. The best of these go on to be pro footballers.

The same thing is true for system admin and developers. Play on teams, especially volunteer teams, when you want to learn. Become experienced and you will have such a strong reputation, companies will beg to hire you as a pro. If you cannot produce as a volunteer, who is going to hire you as a pro? Furthermore, volunteerism shows you are generous, social and a contributor to society as a whole.

No one hires a pro football player who studied football and is "certified" as a footballer who has not played much. They hire winners with experience.

The same is true for strong technical professionals.
 

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MVN(1)							User Contributed Perl Documentation						    MVN(1)

NAME
mvn - Maven - a Java based project management and comprehension tool. SYNOPSIS
mvn [options] [<goal(s)>] [<phase(s)>] DESCRIPTION
Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross- references are all controlled by your POM. Maven has many goals, but in a nutshell Maven aims to make the developer's life easier by providing a well defined project structure, well defined development processes to follow, and a coherent body of documentation that keeps your developers and clients apprised of what's happening with your project. Maven alleviates a lot of what most developers consider drudgery and lets them get on with the task at hand. This is essential in OSS projects where there aren't many people dedicated to the task of documenting and propagating the critical information about your project which is necessary in order to attract potential new developers and clients. OPTIONS
-am,--also-make If project list is specified, also build projects required by the list -amd,--also-make-dependents If project list is specified, also build projects that depend on projects on the list -B,--batch-mode Run in non-interactive (batch) mode -c,--lax-checksums Warn if checksums don't match -C,--strict-checksums Fail the build if checksums don't match -cpu,--check-plugin-updates Force upToDate check for any relevant registered plugins -D,--define <arg> Define a system property -e,--errors Produce execution error messages -emp,--encrypt-master-password <arg> Encrypt master security password -ep,--encrypt-password <arg> Encrypt server password -f,--file Force the use of an alternate POM file. -fae,--fail-at-end Only fail the build afterwards; allow all non-impacted builds to continue -ff,--fail-fast Stop at first failure in reactorized builds -fn,--fail-never NEVER fail the build, regardless of project result -gs,--global-settings <arg> Alternate path for the global settings file -h,--help Display help information -N,--non-recursive Do not recurse into sub-projects -npr,--no-plugin-registry Don't use ~/.m2/plugin-registry.xml for plugin versions -npu,--no-plugin-updates Suppress upToDate check for any relevant registered plugins -o,--offline Work offline -P,--activate-profiles <arg> Comma-delimited list of profiles to activate -pl,--projects <arg> Build specified reactor projects instead of all projects -q,--quiet Quiet output - only show errors -r,--reactor Dynamically build reactor from subdirectories -rf,--resume-from <arg> Resume reactor from specified project -s,--settings <arg> Alternate path for the user settings file -U,--update-snapshots Forces a check for updated releases and snapshots on remote repositories -up,--update-plugins Synonym for cpu -V,--show-version Display version information WITHOUT stopping build -v,--version Display version information -X,--debug Produce execution debug output SEE ALSO
http://maven.apache.org perl v5.10.0 2009-07-13 MVN(1)
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