On Thursday 05 Jul 2007, DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT) wrote: > Actually, I'd be happier if it were more of a requirement. I'd also > like to see different levels other than Certified and Advanced.
I'd want it to be cheaper too - maybe free at 'basic' level. We must not create barriers to entry. > We regularly look for contractors. I don't think I've seen one of the > resumes that had the certification. I only did 4.5, and wasn't going to spend the money 'upgrading' every few years when I was writing in the damn language day in and day out. > We get the resume's, see the CF experience, contact the former employer > (usually a non technical person) and do the best we can. Most of the > time we get a phone interview with the person and have to make a > decision. > Out of the last five or so that we hired, ONE really knows ColdFusion. Wow. Every job I've ever gone for has had a 'do some coding now' type task, and most asked for some snippits before hand too. > exam that we could say "House of Fusion Basic Knowledge". This wouldn't > be for a money maker, though a small amount could be charged for admin > purposes. What it would be for is generating a base of programmers that > know a minimum amount of knowledge. This could increase the view of CF > to the general web programming community. Maybe it could even start a > trend where people stop declaring that CF is dying! I like the idea, but it really needs the branding of Adobe or another company hiring managers will have heard of. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to enormously maintain exceptional infrastructures on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:283046 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
