On Thursday 07 March 2013 10:45 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Priyanka Sarkar <efyed...@efyindia.com> wrote: >> Certifications related to open source and Linux. Please correct me >> if I am wrong. Sankarshan, can you share your inputs on the same.? > I would refrain from opining on whether certifications are useful or, > otherwise. My employer offers a fairly well-known and diverse set of > training offerings and, it would be difficult for me to keep adding > caveats for everything I say. > > However, consider this aspect - employers are commercial entities who > provide services against contracts. Contractual obligations require > that a specific set of skills be certified by passing an examination. > And, hence, there is a reason why employers do put some emphasis on > certifications and, their ratings. > > This is not limited to IT. Consider for a moment the medical and > health services industry - you have certifications. Or, traditional > engineering - you have certifications there too. > > So, if you do have a generic statement along the lines of > "certification is useless and junk", that fallacy needs to be tested. > > I would like to arrange a competition of certificated ppl against the ones I have picked. :-)) . Truly almost all IT industry certifications are junk. 99.999% of it . Even most people having engineering degree are junk. Perhaps we should rename certification program as justification program. I myself thought a bunch of programmers in CTS for Java certification and I knew it would produce junk. Just watched the massacre of technology / love for knowledge right in front of my eyes.
But some corporations have circumvented this junkification http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/rasheeda-bhagat/decoding-zohos-success/article4379158.ece -- Karthikeyan A K http://is.gd/kblogs _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
