The IT Certs That No Longer Pay Extra 267
snydeq writes "Overall employment in tech is improving, but the certs you could once count on for a job or extra pay are losing their value, InfoWorld reports. 'Businesses no longer value what are increasingly considered standard skills, and instead are putting their money both into a new set of emerging specialties and into hybrid technology/business roles.'"
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I took some of the Microsoft certification Windows 2008 server courses, and I came out of understanding how these guys with their shiny certifications can be such incredibly ignorant idiots. I was astounded. How exactly any of it resembles in any way a proper education into something as multifaceted and at times complex as building, administering and troubleshooting an Active Directory environment was beyond me.
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Thank you for saying initialisms and not acronyms! You are now my favorite person on the internet.
Re:Hybrid Programmer-BusinessAnalyst Roles (Score:4, Funny)
which means: Instead of hiring two people good at working together to manage it, one is hired at half the pay to do double the work!
AC, you have a promising career in Management ahead of you!