Re: AS/400 RPG Certification Test

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:52 AM 9/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Don wrote:
>
>>Point to ponder:  When was the last time you went on a interview and were
>>asked if you had ANY certificates?  When was having a certificate a hiring
>>criteria when YOU were looking for employees?
>>
>Much as I dislike the RPG Certification test because of errors and questions
>not relevant to RPG, I have to admit having a certification does have an
>impact.  I recently interviewed a prospective employee in Mexico for one of
>my clients.  The interview went okay but was nothing special (my guess in
>part because of language differences).  When I discovered the applicant had
>both the System Administrator and System Operator certifications, I made a
>strong recommendation to hire.  While the certifications were not sufficient
>in and of themselves to make that recommendation, they certainly resolved
>any remaining doubts I might have had about the applicant's capabilities.

I agree with Charlie that the current certificate tests have value, however
the current tests have been written (on purpose IMHO) to be tricky.  The
problem is that we need skills.  I would rather have more people able to
pass a reasonable test, than have IBM identify for me the people with
exceptional skills who are good test takers.

Al




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