Certifications

[LadySlinger]

Just curious on this one:

After my recent quest of a new job that was more IT related than my previous (part clerk/part support), and seeing most of your postings on new positions I had decided that my BS wasn't enough anymore and that I was really out of date with the IT world.
So I took the next step and decided on certifications. The program I'm following now is the Certification for Information Assurance/Homeland Security through a local CC. The class I'm in right now would get me 70% to a Network+ cert (which I know isn't worth anything by itself).

My question is having more certs, even the little ones like Network+ or A+ with the big certs (for example a Cisco or like what I'm taking CoIA) worth more than just the big certs alone?
It took me 2 years and about 20-25 interviews to land this job (I live in Michigan if that helps)...I was very close to quitting IT all together this summer. Once I get experience from this job under my belt, I want to be prepared for the next round of interviews...which I hope is less than this last time.

Thanks in advance!

 

[langleymass]

What is EMDR?

For NLP stuff, go to

http://www.nlpplus.com

or

http://www.nlpco.com.

 

[LadySlinger]

Looks like it isn't the same as EMDR since its based on human experiences and learning.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensition R-something...

http://www.emdr.org)is

based on your REM sleep, where anything that happens to you during the day gets processed in your brain during REM at night so that when you wake up the next morning you can say "Yesterday was a terrible day, but today should be/will be better." If you do not get REM on a regular basis that things that happened to you do not process thoroughly in brain.
EMDR is set up with tools that replicate EMDR either through headsets, buzzers or visual effects. Each tool is based on right left, like REM.
EMDR can be used for traumatic events or for phobias and instead of "Getting over" what it is you're in for, you accept it. For example if you were abused as a child and were having horrible nightmares and problems with relationships, EMDR takes years of therapy into 3-6 sessions. Instead of feeling resentment, fear of others, etc, you come out of the last session saying "That really sucked and I didn't like the way I grew up, but that's just the only way my parents knew how to raise me and I will learn from that so it won't effect my future."

 

[kHz]

First, I would like to say that NLP is a form of psychological therapy and thus, it should only be used by qualified and trained personnel; and it should only be used if it is indeed a valid and recognized form of treatment used by practitioners.

I would suspect that it doesn't have a firm hold in psychologists and therapists practices.

As for this quote:

He is fat and ugly. In spite of this, he is in a six-year relationship with a very attractive woman. He's a cool guy and knows that what he has is because of what he has learned from NLP.

That is the biggest load of #$@! I have heard in quite some time. Perhaps he has self-confidence, one of the most attractive characteristics that women find in a man. Lyle Lovett was married to Julia Roberts for a short period of time and I doubt he needed NLP to "get" her.

NLP sounds like a fringe pseudo-science practiced by few. A FAQ claims there is only "anecdotal evidence" that NLP works. This same FAQ states that smoking hasn't been scientifically proved to cause cancer.

That last sentence should say it all.

 

[langleymass]

EMDR sounds interesting. I can definitely see value in being able to induce REM sleep quickly.

I often define NLP as "hacking the subconscious," but its applications are numerous. You can do it to yourself. You can do it to other people. It can work in job interviews, and it can work on getting you into a relationship. You can use NLP and self-hypnosis to change your state. Then you learn to go into trance, take others into trance, and change their states.

A great little book called _Instant Rapport_ by Michael Brooks has a story of how he got a woman he was dating to quit smoking using some NLP techniques.

 

[kHz]

As Matthew stated, it sounds like you are using NLP for covert and underhanded manipulation of people.

It sounds like snake oil to me. And you sound like the snake oil salesman!

 

[langleymass]

I made a mistake on one of my links. It should be

http://www.nlp-plus.com.