Us computer people, we have a lot of power. We can do at least as much or more
damage (even if we are royally incompetent) such as a nurse, a doctor, an
electrician, a plumber or some such professional.
What are your thoughts about having some sort of certification for working with
computers?
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Us computer people, we have a lot of power. We can do at least as much
or more damage (even if we are royally incompetent) such as a nurse, a
doctor, an electrician, a plumber or some such professional.
What are
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/ComputerCertifications.asp
http://www.mcmcse.com/othercerts.shtml
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/index.shtml
Just the first three good looking links I found. A lot more on the
first page of
http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+certification
On Mon, Nov
On 28 November 2011 16:03, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> Us computer people, we have a lot of power. We can do at least as much or
> more damage (even if we are royally incompetent) such as a nurse, a doctor,
> an electrician, a plumber or some such professional.
>
> What are your thoughts about hav
I have a lot of respect for you. And your opinions.
I agree that the way we do things at the moment, that people hiring check us
out as well as they can before hiring us. I think we all can agree on this.
Fuxk the alphabet of soupe of trivial acronyms and such. we already know what
they mean
Interviews will usually weed out the b.s. artists, doesn't necessarily detect
potential personality conflicts.
having a "certification" doesn't guarantee that you will be a good fit for the
company, or vice versa.
bring someone in as a contractor for x amount of time. if you like the work
th
> What are your thoughts about having some sort of certification for
> working with computers? Like a doctor or nurse or pilot or even a
> flight attendant? I mean, come on, a plumber?
There is a group that does something called the Certified Data Processor
(CDP).
Some years ago, when I w
>Interviews will usually weed out the b.s. artists, doesn't necessarily detect
>potential personality conflicts.
I've seen many bs artists 'beat' the interview process.
Accreditation has always been problematic in my experience.
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For my entire career I have been told I am certifiable - does this qualify ???
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There is
On 11/28/2011 05:08 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
What are your thoughts about having some sort of certification for
working with computers? Like a doctor or nurse or pilot or even a
flight attendant? I mean, come on, a plumber?
There is a group that does something called the Certified Data P
In
,
on 11/28/2011
at 05:08 PM, Steve Thompson said:
>There is a group that does something called the Certified Data
>Processor (CDP).
I hold a CDP[1]. I don't bother to list it on my résumé. Were I
hiring, I wouldn't consider a CDP relevant.
>OK, now let's look at TSO, ISPF, HLASM, IPCS, et
In <45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf0b0...@sdkmbx03.emea.sas.com>, on
11/28/2011
at 09:03 PM, Lindy Mayfield said:
>What are your thoughts about having some sort of certification for
>working with computers?
The Devil is in the details. If you're talking about a bank of
multiple choice quest
er 29, 2011 12:57 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
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Interviews will usually weed out the b.s. artists, doesn't necessarily detect
potential personality conflicts.
having a "certification" doesn't guarantee that you will be a good fit for the
company
alf Of
Rick Fochtman
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In summary, I think we're equally served by our own efforts at self-policing;
no separately constituted policing body could really do much more.
(Curious: "Lindy"
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> I have a lot of respect for you. A
As a systems programmer, I don't need to know everything, I just need to
know where to get answers.
During the past few years we see more and more posts from those who
seemingly are new to systems programming. Most of what follows is for the
benefit of those new sysprogs; those of us who have bee
In <45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf0b1...@sdkmbx03.emea.sas.com>, on
11/29/2011
at 12:47 PM, Lindy Mayfield said:
>There is just too much information to remember it all.
The problem isn't the information that you can't remember but know how
to look up. The problem is the information that you
On 11/29/2011 9:16 AM, Don Imbriale wrote:
The manuals should be the first place to go. Google can be useful, but
should be used only after using the manuals. The message or other
symptoms, when used as a search argument, may not reveal anything. This is
not an indication that you have encount
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Rick Fochtman
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When they talk about their skills in Assembler, I ask them to write a simple
prog
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When they talk about their skills in Assemble
In <45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf0b2...@sdkmbx03.emea.sas.com>, on
11/30/2011
at 08:26 AM, Lindy Mayfield said:
>One "test question" back some years ago with I was working in
>Heidelberg was to ask the interviewee what would they do if they
>encountered some network problems.
That's a perf
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> Simple enough:
>
> GET SYSIN,SYSSPACE
> PUT SYS
htman
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When they talk about their skills in Assembler, I ask them to write a
simple program to copy one file to
t I can do it.
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.
If you need any hints / samples, you could visi
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