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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Fwd: RE: Do GIS Professionals Have A
"Professional Association?" |
| Date: |
01/09/2004 04:40:01 AM |
| From: |
Michael Gould |
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What about the theory that professional certification exists (in many, not=
=20
all, fields) to cover for the wide presence of incompetent managers,=20
incapable of knowing, during an ordinary job interview, if a candidate=20
really knows his/her stuff, or not ?? Certification relieves the manager=20
from needing to know the difference :-)
MG
At 03:03 09/01/2004, The Geissmans wrote:
>Seems to me that if it were possible to measure
>the quantity, quality and value of the actual work
>that putative GIS professionals do, then quasi-
>abstractions like certifications wouldn't matter.
>Has this issue been approached like that? I'm
>viewed as a knowledge engineer or software
>engineer, and my managers seem to be able to
>recognize the value of my contributions in those
>fields. Would that be true if I were called a GIS
>specialist? Methinks a major stumbling block is
>the [apparent] fact that nearly all GIS folks work
>for governmental agencies, and those employers
>for various reasons are effectively not allowed to
>consider people's actual ability and contribution,
>and must only count things like the number of hours
>spent in training, the number of certificates, etc.
>This discussion has meaning in that context, but is
>that really what the profession needs? Is that what
>those agencies really need?
>
>Jim Geissman
>Countrywide Home Loans
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Michael Gould
Dept. Information Systems
(Lenguajes y Sistemas Inform=E1ticos)
Universitat Jaume I
E-12071 Castell=F3n, Spain
<mailto:gould@lsi.uji.es>
GIM'04 <http://gim04.unizar.es>
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