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Demand For Linux Skills Rising This Year
Nerval's Lobster writes This year is shaping up as a really good one for Linux, at least on the jobs front. According to a new report (PDF) from The Linux Foundation and Dice, nearly all surveyed hiring managers want to recruit Linux professionals within the next six months, with 44 percent of them indicating they're more likely to hire a candidate with Linux certification over one who does not. Forty-two percent of hiring managers say that experience in OpenStack and CloudStack will have a major impact on their hiring decisions, while 23 percent report security is a sought-after area of expertise and 19 percent are looking for Linux-skilled people with Software-Defined Networking skills. Ninety-seven percent of hiring managers report they will bring on Linux talent relative to other skills areas in the next six months.
The Year of Linux is finally here!
So when will this dying site finally shut down for good?
Yet another report that doesn't give hard numbers either in the summary or the article. And of course, the pdf is walled behind a "give us your information and we'll let you download it" page.
The criteria are pretty slack - as long as a company is thinking about hiring one linux worker, that's counted as a win. No saying if it's because they've consolidated several previous linux positions into one future job, or how many non-linux workers are being hired, to put the numbers into perspective.
Notably missing was the "how many linux workers have/will you lay off" question, even though we know this is happening thanks to off-shoring, etc/
I doubt we will ever have an unbiased set of numbers to work with - that would require someone who doesn't have a vested interest in the outcome.
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100% are looking for a H1-B that they can pay as little as possible while holding a green card like it's the sword of damocles over their head.
I am not sure how you quantify a Linux skill? What does knowing your way around Linux even mean? Is knowing your way around Linux quantifiable by doing some odd configuration with hardware, ie disabling TCP offload for troublesome NICs? Or is it simply setting up services for others to use?
Most people can do this stuff. Kernel development however ...
I can see companies caring about Linux expertise; after all, the vast majority of servers run Linux, so if you're hiring for someone doing devops you probably want them to know their way around Linux. But 44% prefer people with "Linux certification"? I know some companies care about stuff like RHEL certifications, but I didn't think it was that many.
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... to ask these same managers how their hiring goals of 2014 were met during 2014. That is, if they planned on hiring someone with skill X within 6 months, did they hire someone with skill X? Did they actively LOOK for someone with skill X? Or was it, "If someone with skill X comes in, they get 2 extra Brownie Points"?
It's all well and good to say you plan on hiring certain skill sets in a given period, but if you haven't been fulfilling your goals in the past, what does that bode for the future?
For the most part, because the US is leaving a recession, that means there are more people hiring.
Having Linux on your resume has never been a bad thing to have. Even if you are working in a Microsoft Shop, the chances are there will be the odd Linux system for some particular application. And hiring people with more skills then less is normally a good thing.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
>> want to recruit Linux professionals...likely to hire a candidate with Linux certification
Wait...which one do you want? Professionals or certified neophytes?
When the retards in H.R. post a job opening requiring ten years experience in something, it will actually be possible to meet the requirements.
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Respondents needed to have hired at least one Linux professional in the last year, or have plans to hire Linux professionals in 2015 to participate in the survey, and they were allowed to check as many responses to questions as appropriate.
So they only surveyed people that hired a Linux professional last year or plan to hire one this year to determine if the need for Linux talent was on the rise?
Oh man sweet an unbiased report about the importance of Linux certifications! From a job board and a organization selling Linux certifications no less. I bet this report is totally legit and has hard numbers to back up all of the claims. I'm probably not going to be disappointing from some obvious slashvertisement.
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@BarbaraHudson: 'Yet another report that doesn't give hard numbers either in the summary or the article. And of course, the pdf is walled behind a "give us your information and we'll let you download it" page.'
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If you haven't downloaded it, how do you know it doesn't gave any hard numbers. Besides, you can fill in any ole name and download it.
Key findings from the 2015 Linux Jobs Survey and Report show that:
"The 2015 Linux Jobs Report reveals and analyzes the responses from more than 1,000 hiring managers at corporations, small and medium businesses (SMBs), government organizations, and staffing agencies across the globeâ"as well as responses from more than 3,400 Linux professionals worldwide."
@BarbaraHudson: "I doubt we will ever have an unbiased set of numbers to work with - that would require someone who doesn't have a vested interest in the outcome."
Yes - of course - you're absolutely right - the Linux foundation obviously have a hidden agenda here
Cheap H1B labor is typically 'certified', so they can use that to disqualify actual talent (who often doesnt have the time or interest in the certification process).
If the company priority is controlling cost, then that will likely be your end result.
I won't argue with that mentality. I will simply gently remind them that you get what you pay for.
Time to dump Mac and Windose manuals and download a Linux copy today! American jobs are waiting for you!
If you can compose, out of your head, in under five minutes, a find -prune command that executes a gawk script that selectively runs bash commands, and successfully run that script against a 10 million node filesystem on a heavily loaded mission critical box, and nothing breaks, you are linux skilled.
Yeah, funny thing is I had to do that not so long ago but filling in the change request takes a whole lot longer!
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