Are IT certifications just worthless paper?
- IT TOPICS:Management
I'm already getting an earful about my editorial in which I argued in favor of organizations ensuring that they maintain a commitment to IT certifications. "Generally, these classes are offered by companies whose interest is gettin' 'em in and turnin' 'em out," with an instructor who's "rarely articulate enough to lecture on the subject and resorts to reading from the book," one reader wrote. "My experience in the workplace has taught me that certifications hanging on an office wall are meaningless."
"It is possible to create [certification] programs that generate workers with applicable skills, but that requires more than a series of book questions to be coughed up from memory," another reader wrote. "Certification needs to verify the ability to think and do," not the ability to successfully eliminate answers to multiple-choice questions. "I test well, but that rarely shows I deeply know a thing."
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