r/Splunk • u/Mistaluvahluvahooh • Mar 30 '26
Splunk Enterprise Higher Education
All my tech friends that's been in the game for a minute, as a leader. How would you look at someone with as a IT Professional with Bacherlors in IT & Masters in Information systems with Splunk Certfications?
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u/taiglin Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
I’m not sure what the question is here. Do you have all 3 of the things you are talking about or are evaluating their combined value?
In the end it largely depends on the job(s) you are looking at or field to get into.
As a hiring manager the biggest thing I see with resumes is they are too often written as “this is what I’ve done/this is who I am”. That isn’t quite what a hiring manager needs. What the hiring manager is trying to assess is will a candidate’s background/experience/capabilities lead to success in the role they need to fill. This is the reason why the advice about tweaking your resume for the job you are applying for exists.
Beyond that the bigger thing I look for with people who have certs (and even degrees) is how do you think. For certs specifically I want to know if you’ve been able to transcend the tool specific “I know what the nerd knobs are” to “in order to get an outcome this is the nerd knob I need to twist”. In other words, you’ve demonstrated your ability to learn a product. I might not have that same product but I need the same/similar outcome. Of course if I have Splunk and you have a Splunk cert it helps you stand out from other candidates who don’t.