Re: Don't bother with qualifications - everything you need to learn is free!
While some of the above is true, you're really generalizing too much.
Qualifications become worthless when you have experience in other IT roles that you can put on your CV.
The experience is what gets you the interview, the problem is if you don't have experience how do you get it?
How do you land your first IT roles to get experience?
Qualifications are what get you the interviews when you're new to IT, at least they do these days.
Everyone I've ever heard say you don't need qualifications is someone that's worked in IT for a decade or more, and started in an era when IT qualifications were a much less diverse and recognized field.
Being 26 myself, I know what it's like breaking into IT jobs in the present day particularly with little or no experience.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
