Probably cuz thats just a bottomless, endless can of worms. Look at your typical certification exams. Take M$ or Cisco for example. In order to be "certified", you need to know from rote memory silly, meaningless details (that could easily be referenced/Googled, BTW) about stuff like Token Ring networks, that nobody in their right mind would ever use unless forced to at gunpoint. What does that really tell you? I know from past experience many people that were top of their class in say, physics or engineering at some very highly considered colleges/unis. Ask them to devise a practical solution for a real client, and even though they scored at or close to 100% on certification exams because they are great at absorbing/regurgitating usless info, they don't know where to start or how to start on a real project. Precisely cuz its a real world example, not something out of a textbook or exam prep. They fear even talking to a real customer. Makes their certs pretty much pointless. Yet those silly HR folks continue to eat this stuff for breakfast....My guess is that any baseline cert would be similar. Got references? Done real work in the past that you can explain? Far superior than a cert.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Michael Lustfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@profarius.com" target="_blank">michael@profarius.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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That sounds like an awesome idea.<br>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:29:18 -0700<br>
Domenic Santangelo <<a href="mailto:domenic@workhabit.com" target="_blank">domenic@workhabit.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Christian Pearce <<a href="mailto:christian@pearcec.com" target="_blank">christian@pearcec.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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> > let us not forget if you want to be a lawyer you have to pass the bar (at<br>
> > least in the US). So already there is a market differentiation. Just about<br>
> > anyone can advertise I can do Drupal work. Does it mean they are qualified<br>
> > no.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> What's keeping us from creating our own Bar Exam so that when someone<br>
> advertises they can do Drupal work they can point to an independent<br>
> qualification?<br>
><br>
> -D<br>
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Michael Lustfield<br>
Kalliki, SD LoCo<br>
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Network and Systems Administrator<br>
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