Re: AS/400 RPG Certification Test

[HankHeath@xxxxxxx]

My personal opinion of certification is simple:

If there is a certification test for an area, it's time to move on to a new
area. 

If you read the posts concerning certification, you'll notice a *lot* of
positioning for one area of interest versus another. A committee without a
room to meet. Do you expect such a group to be able to distinguish who are
your best candidates to do the work at hand.

I have a similar problem with hiring programmers with X years of experience.
Is it X years of pushing the envelope, or 1 year of experience repeated X
times? I prefer the guy who pushes the envelope, myself, and no test is going
to give me that answer.

Hank Heath
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