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Are IT Certifications Meaningless?
superflippy writes "In his article Hiding Behind Certification, MIT's Michael Schrage argues that CIOs who rely too heavily on certifications as a measure of an employee or sub-contractor's abilities are wasting their companies' money."
Wow, this article finally affirms what I've always known -- that I'm uber-qualified. I have no certifications, degrees, or qualifications of any sort. I am totally 733T! Thank god, I had almost started to believe the nay-sayers.
Oh, and you know how Einstein got bad grades in school? Yeah, well mine are even worse!
To paraphrase someone else:
"If you gotta' ask, you ain't never gonna' know"
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I was going to reply to this, but I don't have my SCIWE (Slashdot certified insightful writing engineer) certification.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Do you also let the FBI pick up your garbage instead of the BFI?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Well, let's see, it's 11 A.M. I guess that means I'd be getting out of the shower to refill my beer mug.
KFG
MCSE Certification
I completely agree. People skills are much more important than lousy certifications...
-Ralph Bonnell - CISSP, LPIC-2, CCSI, CCSE+, CCNA, RSA/CSE, CSFE, eSCE, PCIA, ACIA, STAR, MIPS-I, MIPS-E, SCP, BSPE, SSE, MCSE 2000 - http://ralph.cx/resume/
Cybie! aka Ralph Bonnell
MCSE:Security... I was trying to come up with a punch line for that, but it pretty much holds its own.