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
Bradly J. Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:15033@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Indeed, in a perfect world, experience does count more than certification.
> But in the eyes of human resources people who don't understand the tech,
> both is even better. Its something that has to be weighed, as well. I have
> never pursued certification for the Microsoft platforms because it
wouldn't
> pay for itself.. I would spend more on the certification that I would see
in
> pay increase.
>
> Forget I asked .. but this question will come up again from someone else..
> and Palm will likely start to see pressure from corporate types to add
> something like this. No matter if you like it or not, non technical hiring
> folks like certifications.
>
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