Mensan seeks work

[Dr. Ghastly]

Because technolpogy changes. geting certified means that you are expanding
your knowledeg. There is NOTHING wrong with getting certified.

And the comment about not learning much from getting a certification, as a
mensa member, I would think you would know that you get out of an education
what you put into it.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Trent Shipley" <tcshipley@earthlink.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Mensan seeks work


> Dr. Ghastly wrote
> >
> > Also, where I work, they FORCE you to get certification. They make you
get
> > certified in EVERYTHING. At least they pay for it.
> >
>
> Why on earth would they want you to certify *after* the hire.  The entire
> point of a cert is to provide some gurantee of minimal competence.  You
don't
> go through a cert process to become competent.  You don't even learn that
> much from it.
>
> A cert makes it unlikely the certification holder is out-and-out
incompetent.
>  If a certification were sufficient to demonstrate competence and ability
we
> wouldn't make lawyers and doctors go to school and do internships.  They'd
> just have to pass their board exams.
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