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- From: patrick.hoyt@tclbbs.com (Patrick Hoyt)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: re: The value of certif..
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 22:17:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1885794875-960324161700@tclbbs.com>
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- M(> Subject: The Value of Certification?
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- M(> My question is: What's the value in it?
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- M(> Does anybody pay attention if this is on a resume?
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- Yes. Let me give you a "real life" example in which I participated.
-
- We had an opening for 1 engineer. Put ad's in papers. We soon
- stopped counting resumes. There were simply *too many* to look
- over in the course of a day.
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- We then hired a "temp" at $4.50 an hour to screen all these resumes.
- We gave her a list of qualifications that we were looking for, and
- a minimum GPA (3.8) as an initial screen.
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- Professional Certification would have attracted attention, resulting
- in the resume being looked at by people further up the hiring chain.
- Assuming other minimum qualifications were met.
-
- IMO, many of the people who participate in the hiring process know
- little or nothing of the qualifications required for the job. They
- only know what they've been told to look for. Having "Certification"
- would beat not having certification in this case.
-
- BTW, we ended up hiring a kid fresh out of tech school who had a 3.9
- GPA. Mine was not the final decision in the hiring process that day.
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-
- ... A police state is great, so long as you're the police.
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