Looking to the Future: Standardized Certifications

July 2004 - Patrick von Schlag Email This Article To A Friend

Different theories have abounded for years about why certifications are important. They provide a measure of a candidate’s knowledge and skills in a particular technology or toolset. They provide benchmarks for hiring qualified workers. They provide a means of investing in your career and a vehicle for potential increases in compensation or job promotion.

But in the end, it’s all about the work. Can the credential demonstrate that this individual can do the work that needs to be done? The current generation of certifications could do a better job of providing tools that an organization can quickly use to align its people to its work, and the single biggest change coming to certification over the next 10 years will be an insistence on job-role alignment, so that organizations can get the right people in the right places…to get the job done.
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