<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I come from the “we’ve had SDN for years, it’s called L2VPN” but I guess the rest of the world hasn’t been a carrier for 26yrs either.<div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 20, 2020, at 9:55 PM, Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.com" class="">mark.tinka@seacom.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 20/Jul/20 23:59, Brandon Martin wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Pass given to those who cram them into a "certificates" or "specifics"<br class="">line or similar in order to get around HR filters, limit them to major<br class="">certs (or ones your HR dept. specifically demanded), and don't really<br class="">mention them otherwise. Bear in mind as well that, even if your<br class="">hiring process doesn't demand them, others' will, and many people have<br class="">a standard-ish resume with application-specific cover letter.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">When SDN was all the rage in the middle of the past decade, our HR<br class="">department wanted to hire someone in this field and asked me what type<br class="">of qualifications and certifications they should be looking for. Well, I<br class="">told them to look for someone who had enough will and time to figure out<br class="">what it means to us, and the patience to experiment, fail and experiment<br class="">again, without losing any steam or confidence, and take a pass on any<br class="">SDN certifications recommended by our "recruiting consultants".<br class=""><br class="">We ended up hiring a regular (but very good) network engineer who had<br class="">recently taken up an interest in understanding and writing software to<br class="">perform repetitive tasks. It was just a shame they chose not join at the<br class="">last minute, but we weren't the worse off for it either.<br class=""><br class="">At the time, everyone and their arm rest were offering some kind of<br class="">SDN-workshop-certification thingy.<br class=""><br class="">Suffice it to say, to this day, we still don't know what SDN means to<br class="">us, hehe.<br class=""><br class="">Mark.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>