As for your 'geer brothers, see if they would have their jobs without their education. That would be their "designation", as it were.
Doesn't anyone find it weird that it's IT jobs that get moved, and not engineering/doctor/accounting jobs (or, at least to a lesser degree)? Perhaps companies don't know how valuable IT people are, think that we're totally interchangable (which we're not) and don't have a good handle on what quality and kinds of work a specific person can provide?
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From: Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:21 am
Subject: Re: CF Salary Range
> Call me an idiot, but what designations do accounting /
> engineering /
> medical demand?
>
> The only one I can comment on with some semblance of knowledge
> is
> accounting (as my father is an accountant). He worked for IBM as
> an
> accountant for 30 years without ever getting a "Certified Public
> Accountant" stamp of approval. ( You didn't need a CPA to work in
> the
> private sector )
>
> To my knowledge, neither of my brothers (both engineers) have
> any
> "designations" other than their schooling. (<-- that, of course,
> doesn't
> mean they don't have them)
>
> At 12:05 PM 9/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I think that there should be a governing association for IT, and
> that
> >people who wish to work in IT must have a professional
> designation (not
> >certs) that they work towards. IT is probably the only
> professional field
> >where anyone can pick up a book and proclaim they're a
> >"programmer". Right now companies have no way to differentiate
> between
> >someone who's worked hard and understands basic computing
> concepts, and
> >the pisshead that BSs their way to a position. So of course the
> >determining factor becomes price, since companies have no other
> reliable
> >information to use for hiring.
> >
> >If the accounting/engineering/medical fields demand designations,
> why not IT?
>
>
>
>
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