[GRLUG] Certification

[Collin Kidder]

Benjamin Eavey wrote:
>> If a company or it's representative are incapable of recognizing, as
>> qualification,  your experience within the group of people developing
>> the very software they require support for...  that might be a sign of
>> their general competence in other areas.
>>
>> Further, I will risk suggesting that this might have some bearing on
>> how satisfying your employment for said company is likely to be.
>>     
>
> HR people, quite often, are only the gatekeepers.  It's like this in 
> many large companies.  They don't have much technical knowledge at all, 
> and their job is to find out which applicants meet the minimum set of 
> requirements they've been given by a department within the company.
>
>   
But, you've got to admit that letting clueless people pick the 
candidates is just plain stupid. Would you hire a mechanic to pick out 
your furniture? I really don't understand why so many companies make it 
HR's job to find people. Doesn't it seem as if an actually knowledgeable 
person should pick out candidates from the job pool? I mean, I could 
easily say that I've got all sorts of experience and blow way over head 
of an HR peon but that would be much tougher to do to someone with an 
actual understanding of the job they are hiring for.