I agree with what Michael has written below. Certifications have little
practical value for technology professionals, but they do provide a small
amount of insurance for people who are forced to hire outside of their own
expertise.
IMHO, the value of certifications are irrelevant. Palm will eventually go
down this road. They are half-way there with the Symbol University
classes, and it's just one more step to put a test and a certificate at the
end of this week. With 70,000 registered developers, and more streaming in
every week, that's a mighty tempting revenue source to just ignore. I
_know_ my company will front money to get some more letters behind my name,
and I know that our clients will be impressed by the growing alphabet soup.
In the business world, this is called a win-win situation. Except for me.
I lose because I have to take another multiple-guess test. I thought I
left that behind in college. Thankfully, the public educational system has
prepared me well. My skill at timed, multiple-choice tests has been honed
to a fine edge. I can pass almost anything.
...now if only I could figure out why Gremlins chokes on my application
every 30,000 events.
- Ed
"Michael Yam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@news.palmos.com on 06/23/2000
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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
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>
> 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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