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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] GIS Certification? |
| Date: |
06/10/2004 10:00:01 PM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Harrison
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:36 PM
> To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
> Subject: Re: [gislist] GIS Certification?
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> Now, onto the GISCI issue. There is one sure way to tell if a
> Certification Program is vendor-neutral and that's to look at
> who develops, approves and maintains the Certification. After
> reading the posts on this list I looked at the "Certification
> Committee" for GISCI and I only see one vendor.
Why, pray tell, should any vendor have any role in a supposedly "objective"
assessment of a persons professional competence and qualifications? I would
contend that as soon as you let vendors inject anything other than a
long-arms reach pat on the back, you taint the whole process, and by default
dilute those that achieve certification status.
To throw another fly in the ointment, we discussed this before, but the case
has been made that these certified professionals will slowly start to expect
and perhaps demand higher salaries. Should the stroke of a pen on a
certificate be the justification to up someone's salary by X %? Think of
their colleague in the next cube over, equally competent, perhaps more so,
equally educated, equally savvy and analytical, but also sees little
professional value in seeking certification. Now, the boss acquiesces to
the newly certified professional and gives a salary increase, maybe even
mid-year, and this professional skips back to their own cube, sits down and
resumes scratching his/her head over a spatially-related problem, only to
ask his neighbor [the uncertified one] for help. Does this sound familiar
in your office? Can I get an amen ? :-)
Don't be a lemming. Don't believe the hype. Resistance is not futile....
Anthony
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