This is a great idea, and repserver.com is available! Go for it, Don!
I'll be waiting for the IPO.
Don Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@news.palmos.com on 06/26/2000 10:48:01 AM
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Certification of capabilities misses the point, and can't possibly move at
internet speed.
What you really need to know is whether to believe a prospective consultant
or employee who says "I know how to do that." If you knew whether you
could
trust the consultant, you wouldn't even need to know what it was that they
needed to know in order to do the job. That's how it should be. You
shouldn't have to know how to do the job yourself in order to hire someone
to do it for you.
The Better Business Bureau IS a better model. What we need for consultancy
is a "rep server" that is a trustworthy repository for a consultant's
reputation and history. Anybody can read it, anyone who actually hires you
can add to it.
You would have to teach HR people how to use it. Too bad the Better
Business Bureau is probably too mired in old tech to ever do it. "Just
call
the BBB and have them look me up. If you like my work, tell them.
Otherwise -- well there won't be an otherwise, you're gonna love my work."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Mathis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: Certification
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Michael Yam wrote:
> > Professions that don't move at internet time --
> architecture, plumbing, real
> > estate -- need some form of license or certification.
> Cerifications for
> > technology just don't make much sense. The problem is that
> a lucrative
> > profession attracts "con-men" who bill themselves as
> "con-sultants" and
> > human resources wants to protect against that. (Just joking about
> > consultants -- I am one myself :-). Unlike businesses,
> there's no Better
> > Business Bureau to file a complaint if you get a bad worker.
> >
> > What we need to do is educate the corporate types while
> certifications
> > indicate a certain amount of commitment and dedication to a
> platform by the
> > candidate, it is not a substitute for experience.
> Corporate types who have
> > lived through mainframes, PCs, client / server, the
> internet, and now
> > handhelds know this well. It's the newly minted corporate
> types that
> > present a problem.
> >
> > Sorry for this off-topic discussion...
> >
> > Michael Yam
> > www.ytechnology.com
>
> While it would be nice to be able to re-educate all HR
> people, managers,
> and business owners, it's just not gonna happen. Just try to
> teach them
> how to use the internet... :)
>
> The best thing to do is accept that people will be looking for
> certifications, and instead of some meaningless cert popping
> up, get ahead
> of the game and develop a cert program that actually teaches
> you what you
> need to know. For all the programmers here, it would help
> them more than
> hurt, and maybe clear up the little things. For the most
> part, it would
> help everyone out.
>
> For any of us who deal with managers, we already know how
> impossible it is
> (generally) to get them to do anything acceptable. This is
> one of those
> places where we need to play their game. We can give them
> what they want
> (a cert), and make sure it lives up to our standards.
>
> --
> Brian Mathis
> Direct Edge
> http://www.directedge.com
>
>
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