[Sigia-l] What happened to the good IAs

[Ziya Oz]

Laurie Gray:

> OK so to play devil's advocate, what about a BOK (Body of Knowledge) such as
> those that are being developed for the BA profession and have been developed
> for the PM profession?

Nobody who cannot properly assess the hirability of a candidate from a
resume, portfolio, website, blogs, interview, etc should be allowed to hire.
End of story. Anyone who thinks some 'certification' entity or a third party
can be a substitute for that is delusional. Just as design is supremely
contextual, so is recruitment.

One of the most spectacular success stories in the financial industry over
the last two decades was CapitalOne. For many years, their *entire* top
management spent at least 30% of their daily work on recruitment. That's an
enormous amount of time and focus. As it should be. Trust me, they weren't
looking for 'certification'. :-)

I've had the 'pleasure' of working with many IT professionals decorated with
'certifications' up the wazoo who were as ineffective as they come. A
prospect's ability to listen, focus, follow up, communicate, question,
organize, for example, trumps any number of certifications, external
validations or specific body of knowledge. You can teach facts, the other
stuff is much harder to inculcate.

Let's not make this yet another reason to get lazy.

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Ziya

The constraint is the design.