> when people discuss IT certificates the are usually seen as a good thing to have for IT jobs Are they? Which certificates exactly? The only ones that come to

> when people discuss IT certificates the are usually seen as a good thing to have for IT jobs Are they? Which certificates exactly? The only ones that come to my mind are Red Hat's, Cisco's, and Oracle's (for the database), and only the high level ones are conveying any sort of proficiency.