What skills do you look for in your employees?

[MannDude]

Thanks. This is an interesting industry and I hope to one day work in it. Does anyone have a cPanel certification? Do employers require that? I will continue to work on and break and fix my own servers for now but one day want to volunteer and gain experience and hopefully get a decent job working for a web host!

Nope, not required. I don't think I've ever seen it as a requirement, though as mentioned in the other thread about it I don't see how it'd hurt. The L1 test can be taken online, though the L2 test and above requires you to be on-site, which for me seems like a bit much. I'm not flying out to Texas to take a test unless having the certification will yield me a pay raise significant enough for the inconvenience of obtaining the certification or will help me obtain a better paying job. Depending on where in the world you're located, the cost to take the test on-site could be very significant, and could easily equal a month of pay just for the round trip ticket and cost of staying a day or two in Houston or Dallas or wherever cPanel is headquartered. 

 

[Xenfinity]

Does anyone have a cPanel certification? Do employers require that? I will continue to work on and break and fix my own servers for now but one day want to volunteer and gain experience and hopefully get a decent job working for a web host!

I'm a cPanel certified technician, but that came after I got hired at a web host.  There's more information in for you to peruse.

Nick

 

[KS_Phillip]

With the right personality and character traits, technical knowledge is largely irrelevant.  No matter how much someone knows about general networking, kvm, openvz, etc...they don't know anything about how *we* do it, so they need to be trained anyway.  So our hiring is based around basic competence, personality, willingness and ability to learn.

 

[GreenHostBox]

Experience and knowledge are the two biggest things I look for. Without those two, it's a disaster.