I know people who have IT certs that couldn't configure a router if they had screenshots in front of them to do it.....
This is reminiscent of the boot camp MCSE's of the mid-late 90's that flooded the market in droves..you'd get a guy who had their MCSE and pay them $75,000 a year only to find out the guy has no real world experience other than sitting in a classroom for an entire weekend having terms and questions shoved down their throats.
Companies rely on information technology certifications when hiring workers, but have trouble validating and evaluating credentials, according to a survey by CompTIA.
Among the core details from the survey:
- 64 percent of IT hiring managers rate IT certifications as having high value in validating skills.
- 80 percent of human resources manager believe IT certifications will become more important over the next two years.
- 44 percent of hiring IT managers say that verifying a potential worker’s certification is a challenge due to the time required.
- 38 percent say certification verification is a challenge due to the effort required.
The survey was based on roughly 1,700 responses from HR and IT executives.
Update: The full survey doesn’t go beyond the headline figures too much, but does include a bevy of key charts. Among the key slides:
What your IT cert says about you…
What IT managers think of certs…
And what gets you the job.
