CLP? Novell course 3072

[Daniel Mons]

My experience as someone who regularly interviews  potential employees 
mirrors the feelings below.

These certificate courses aren't worth the paper they are written on. 
Most of them are far too short (5 days experience with an operating 
system?  I've got 10 years of commercial Linux experience and I'm still 
learning stuff every day).

I would say of all the courses out there, the RHCE is about the only one 
that has any credibility.  Even then, I think the cost to the individual 
is ludicrous for the minuscule amount of time you spend in training.  I 
certainly wouldn't recommend an individual for employment if they had 
just an RHCE under their belt and nothing else.

-Dan


Christopher Lees wrote:
> 
> I have investigated similar courses at some local IT training centres.
> IMHO they are very close to being scam operations. The ones local to me
> have fees that high merely for a 3 day course on "Introduction to SUSE
> Enterprise Linux", with the USEFUL courses only becoming available to
> you after you have done a couple of these useless ones. The
> advertisements all say "If you don't get a job in IT in 90 days, we'll
> pay you $2000" - well, the fees suggest to me that NOBODY who does these
> courses gets a job, and everyone is getting a $2000 refund.
> 
> I would be very careful before parting with my hard-earned.
>