Here is a Discussion I started in my group "Gray Matters!" on LinkedIn.

Doesn't experience count for anything these days? I have over 20 years experience in what used to be called "DP" and have a Associate degree in same. Worked on large WAN/Cisco routers for over 2 years and got pretty good at it but, do not have CCNA for cisco routers. BUT, still after almost one year of being out of work, no job offers are coming my way. It seems having 20+ years of experienc, means your too old, no CCNA means you dont know any thing about routers, a associate means to HR as almost no degree and those that do count it as a degree, see my degree as so old fashoned (meaning he cant realy know computer systems with that degree).