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>Training?</H3>
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<p><strong>From Travis Gerspacher
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<p align="right"><strong>Answered By Mike Orr, Heather Stern
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I have been looking around for training programs and I have come
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across the LPI and the RHCE. How recognized are these certifications by
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employers. Being a RHCE just won't mean as much if a potential employer has
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no idea what the heck it is. I welcome any comments or guidance from
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anyone!!!
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> [Mike]
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I can't answer this directly, but have you seen the LG articles on LPI?
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Dan York and Ray Ferrari trace the creation and achievements of the
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Linux Professional Institute over two years, how they sought to
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gain recognition for it, and how they succeeded.
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> [Heather]
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If it helps any, when listing them on your resume' you could give their
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full names, followed by the short form in parentheses. RHCE is the
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<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A> Certified Engineer program, so it expresses that Red Hat thinks
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that you are sufficiently versed as a Linux technician, because you have
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the skills (as expressed by the testing series you went through, real life
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may give you different mileage).
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Doing a Google! search on the single keyword "RHCE" finds 42000 hits,
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one of the top of which is a review on Amazon for a book to help study
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for it. The reviewer states that "my boss wants me to take the RHCE exam!"
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and that by starting to delve into the book, he realized that he really
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wasn't ready yet.
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In either the RHCE or LPI series, it's not a single test, and it's not
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a "rubber stamp". The RHCE tests include a hands-on exam (so it's not
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just "multiple guess" bubbled tests).
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Any given employer may have heard of them; if they have, their interest
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may be in your actual skills, or in the ability to pit RHCE or LPI against
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college degrees and other buzzwords. The LPI has tried to be very
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scientific. The RHCE focuses on practical experience (with their
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distribution). This may help you pick which, if you're only planning to
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go for one and feel you will be competing with degrees and so on.
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If they haven't, you still have the skills they tested for, and should be
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able to show that in your interview or regular review.
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It may be worthwhile to you to see if you can tell what kind of things
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your hoped-for employers already say they are looking for in their other
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hiring. That may give you a basis to guess if they care about such things.
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It's up to you to decide if you think they should care that <EM>you</EM> have
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these. If you think many people are competing for the job, you with an
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apparently valid certification may get past non-technical screeners more
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easily.
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I don't have any good statistics(*) to determine how many employers <EM>have</EM>
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heard of these but think certifications are a waste of time, or that these
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certifications in particular aren't useful.
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<ul>
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<li> okay, I don't have any bad statistics either, I didn't look.
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I have the feeling that statistics about certification will be about how many
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people are taking the tests, not how many people are ignoring the results.
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You certainly shouldn't take my word as a very useful statistic! I encourage
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you to investigate for yourself.
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<p><em>See also the Two Cent Tips item this issue about
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<a href="../lg_tips64.html#17">books for your own crash course</a>.
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-- Heather</em></p>
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