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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?
Hey now, leave joe's garage out of this and stick to church oriented activities. While your at it have a donut. <now does that give away my age heh> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Rowland, Alan D wrote: > > While the effectiveness of degree requirements may be argued, they are > efficient. When your HR department gets hundreds or thousands of > applications, they need some way to find the wheat. > > The net sector is young and was mostly immune to traditional business > practices. Not all traditional business practices are bad (see dot.bomb). > Lack of business acumen means the days of six figure income and significant > stock options because there were 10 job openings for every geek who could > RTFM are over. Even though the "job market is coming back" there's still 20 > 'techies' in Birkenstocks and Star Wars t-shirts for every (decent) job > hiring. Everything else being equal (which is often the case) a cert or > degree is a great tie-breaker. > > Welcome to the traditional job market fellow geeks. Remember all the jokes > about Sanitation Engineers? ;) > > Put another way, when you take that expensive car of yours in for service > (you do have one if you're successful in this industry, right? ;) ), do you > go to Joe's Garage (apologies to all named Joe) or a dealer/service center > with "certified" mechanics? > > Just my 2�. The delete key is your friend. > > Best regards, > _________________________________________ > Alan Rowland > (BS in Business and Management, UofM, 1990 > "no warranty expressed or implied, use at > your own risk, may be terminated at any > time without notice" > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher J. Wolff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems? > > > > I would add to that statement: Requiring a technology certification is > equally as obsurd. I've been told I could pass the Emperor-Level CCIE > test; however, I do not believe it will add more value for my customers. > > Regards, > Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO > Broadband Laboratories > http://www.bblabs.com > > > Andrew Dorsett said: > *jumping on my soap box* > I have to say that the idea of requiring a degree for the IT industry is > obsurd. >
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