[nylug-talk] career advice

[Yang Xiao]

VaibhaV Sharma <vaibhav at vaibhavsharma.com>
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Hmmm...

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 16:22, Michael Bacarella wrote:

> The idea of certifying someone to use a computer is probably like
> certifying someone to write poetry.
> 
> -M

If every employer was perfect and every candidate had been *as
advertised*, this might fit in well. Unfortunately thats not the case. I
think its more of a psychological issue.

Its difficult for employers to pick out the serious and apt candidates
from the truckloads of people available for e.g. Java/VB programming.

Certification, at the least, gives a psychological effect of "Yes, this
guy has actually worked on something!". For the candidates, its more of
an assurance of their skills and also another line to add into the
resume.

This kind of a mindframe has got popular and at a lot of times followed
for every damn kind of position available out there.

VaibhaV
http://vsharma.net


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I think it's more important for IT service companies to present to their 
potential clients that something like 100% or 99% of their engineers are 
this certified and that certified, it just sound good, as for people who 
work only for the company that hired them, it's pretty much meaningless.
just my 2 cents
Yang

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