[Sigia-l] Sigia-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 24

[Ziya Oz]

Victor Lombardi:

> Certification helps people who are not on  this list, such as managers who may
> have primary experience in  an  area such as IT or marketing and have trouble
> evaluating IA  candidates' qualifications.

Therein lies the root cause: people who have trouble evaluating candidates'
qualifications should not ever be in a position to hire them. Certification
helps these mismatched managers maintain a false sense of competency. The
irony is that in the IT world, for instance, the insidious reliance on
certification goes down significantly as the significance of a job title
goes up. Indeed, it could be said that there's an inverse relationship
between expected creativity and requirement for certification.

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Ziya

The constraint is the design.