[thelist] PHP official certification
Seth Thomas Rasmussen
seth at sethrasmussen.com
Mon Aug 16 14:47:36 CDT 2004
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I don't put much weight on most certifications. I wouldn't legitimize
them by participating in them.
They are appropriate in certain situations, like administrating a
mainframe (z/OS or OS/400 for example) where you need to know someone s
qualified before you entrust them with a potentially multimillion
dollar system. But for things like PHP, javascript, web dev, I think
they're not really necessary.
What I see as the problem is that HR people are hiring for positions
whose skills they don't understand. This is an industry springing up
to attempt to remedy that. Just as a project manager needs to know a
certain amount about the skills of the people working in their team, HR
people need to know enough to ask the right questions to determine if a
person is qualified for a given job.
One problem with certs is these weekend/weeklong training camps where
you cram for 10 hours a day and take the exams repeatedly until you
pass. Anyone with a few hundred bucks and nothing better to do with a
weekend can get a cert, so they don't mean too much.
I would much rather take the time to talk to a candidate about their
past projects and specific problems they solved to get an idea of their
aptitudes.
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Bah! Too much common sense! You'll never get anywhere with that kind of
thinking, you frickin' tree-hugging communist!
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