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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] masters vs. certificate |
| Date: |
06/21/2005 03:45:01 PM |
| From: |
RICK GRAY |
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Actually, my case fits exactly with what Bill has outlined. This is one reason I
am all for "certification", regardless of how much it really means.
As part of an educational institution, my salary is bracketed according to
education level and years experience. The more letters I can tack onto my name,
the better the bean counters in payroll like me. Simple as that.
I suspect in many larger corporations, where the people cutting the cheque
never actually meet most of the employees, it is similar. Mind you, you still
have to be competent to KEEP the job, but given two equally comppetent people,
the one with credentials will get paid more than the one without.
Who says life is fair? Just work the system.
rg
>>> "William Medina" <wmedina@kci.com> 06/17/05 8:07 AM >>>
Hi:
I have never liked this type of discussions but I decided to post my
experience. I believe it all comes to the type of company that your are
working for and their willingness to be committed to employees. Mine has
used the may lack of a certification as an excuse not to promote me to a
higher level although I have been in charge of many jobs and many people to
deserve been at a higher level, but taking advantage of my immigrant status
they are "requesting" me to have a certification in my area of expertise. It
is not hard to do it, it just takes time, but I think that once I get the
certification they will find another "condition" that has not been satisfied
so another request will be ask.
In some companies you can be hired based on your experience, and as long as
the company has an interest in you, they will hold you as low cost as they
can. Some others will look at your degrees and experience and they will hold
you as inexpensive as they can as long as you are useful. But some other
will look at the real professional you are and will encourage you to learn
more and improve your experience with good educational programs and good
incentives (including growing in your company, money reward, etc). My
suggestion to you is look at the companies first, get an overall sense of
which type of company you are enrolling to, I believe the last type I
mentioned are the best ones and those you should focus on, the others are
not worth to stay too much longer.
Bill,
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