Re: IBM certification, especially RPG

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

Joel Fritz wrote:
> 
> The delivery truck driver at a place I used to work was something of a
> philosopher.  One of his printable sayings was "School don't make you
> smart."

No, school don't.  But paying attention in school does.  Applying
yourself in school does.  And finally, when you PASS THE TEST, others
are assured that you have at least some base level of competence and
ability to think at a certain level, be that High School, College or
Post Graduate.

Just having the cert does not prove that you can do the job.  We still
interview people with the *required* college degrees don't we?  There is
more to putting the right person in the job than *just* a piece of
paper, but we want the paper as a basis, don't we?

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. -- IBM Certified AS/400 Administrator

-- The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!
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