Mensan seeks work

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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