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RE: Fear of certification (was:Definition of Engineer )(was: What to do?)
Subject:RE: Fear of certification (was:Definition of Engineer )(was: What to do?) From:Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:26:37 -0800 (PST)
> No other communications profession is as frightened
> of the concept of
> certification/accreditation as technical
> communications seems to be.
Very few things scare me. A psycho jumping at me with
a knife? Yep. Certification? Hardly.
> 1) Technical writing is too broad to be able to
> provide certification. Horse hockey
> 2) Certification will take away jobs from qualified
> writers: Horse hockey
> 3) Certification just an excuse for exclusivity: no
> more so than a graduate
> degree, or country club membership.
My contention with certification is that it creates an
artificial unit of perceived experience. Knowledge
does not equal experience. As a hiring manager, I
could care less about an applicant's level of
education and certification. I've been burned by idiot
PhD's before. I know IT and engineering managers who
have been burned by certified engineers.
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Goober Writer
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