IT Certification Less Important Now?

lpq writes "IT certifications, popular after the dot-com bust, seem to be hurting careers now according to this article in the current Eweek.com issue. Guess employers are getting hip to the idea that those who don't have experience or can't "do", get certified..."

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[joe 155]

He's right, no one will ever hold any qualification against you because any qualification is better than none. I've experienced first hand how these things have no bearing on your ability to actually do anything useful on a computer... when I was in college (that's the UK one, so I mean 16-18 years old) I was forced to take a City&Guilds "Key Skills" certificate, I actually think I failed because it was tantamount to a "I know how to do very specific things in M$ apps that I would never use for anything" certificate. My teacher knew so little about computers that when i showed her how to see envirnmental variables in command line she was really shocked - she nearly passed out when I showed her that the securtiy on the college systems were that bad that even as the lowest level user I could add admin privalages to my account. This qualification in my opinion is worth nothing. But it has not negative value. QED.