On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:39, Tom Metro wrote: > As others have argued on the list, as programmers we know certifications > are pointless as a technical qualification, but we're not the audience > that needs to be convinced otherwise.
I disagree. A certification says that you have a certain baseline of knowledge about a subject. The fact that people routinely mis-use certifications as a means to judge _applicable skill_ with some toolset whose knowledge is tested in the certification process is NOT the certification's fault. If you came to me and said, "I have a certification in X, but have no other exposure to it," I would place your resume in the pile above the people who have not encountered X and below those who have used it for real work (assuming that the certification is one that I know and at least superficially trust). If, on the other hand, two experienced people applied and only one was certified in X, I would consider them to be equal and let in-interview factors decide. I would never let certification trump experience. Treated this way, certifications are a useful measure of how much ramp-up someone is going to have on a given technology, but NOT how good they are at using it. -- â 781-324-3772 â [EMAIL PROTECTED] â http://www.ajs.com/~ajs _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
