The issue of IT certification has resurfaced lately and at first glance, seems a good idea. Virtually everyone who works with the IT industry have come across who says just demonstrating a professional and unprecedented ability to spoil anything they touch.
Usually takes a few days so that everyone understands that the subject has no notion of its area and its mission. If certification is the output for these cases, it is worth investing in the search for solution and recycling professionals. After all, the certifications have worked for areas such as accounting and engineering, have not they?
The example of engineering
The engineering profession can be broken into several parts, such as civil aviation, electricity and so many more. In a civil engineer is expected to good bridges and good buildings; an electrical engineer, who knows how to define the distribution of electrical energy optimally and safely.
No one suggests the possibility of asking a professional to develop buildings the design of an aircraft, and few will bump electric develop roads. So when it comes to engineering, distinct specializations are no problem. But it seems that what is good for these areas does not apply to the IT industry.
Visit a technology company and will be higher the chances of finding programmers working in network management or managers who climbed the career within the data center help desk supervising teams.
We must admit, when it comes to IT, a varied experience can be very positive. Few CIOs with knowledge in one area, and the possibilities of a CIO with several stars in a single talent find work are remote.
Jack of all trades
What the eyes of many may characterize a weakness is actually a sign of quality, and this dynamic, this diversity is one factor that keeps technology companies active in a constant process of renewal, assimilating with the constant changes in tranquility wind direction.
Indeed, this dynamic deserves to be scrutinized a little more. Encourage the development can be a good one-way for segments such as accounting, where assignments have changed so much over the past 400 years as the physical composition of feldspar.
But does this rule also applies to software developers and network engineers? What these professionals will be doing in five years? How to ensure that the roles of CIOs will be the same over time?
Simple. There is no way. What the IT industry needs is people thinking fast, able to adapt to the volatile environment intrinsic to the activity and development of technologies. Those who enter this jungle must be ready to learn something new, before being released booklets on the subject.
IT professionals versed in various aspects of technology distrust anyone who claims the crown of an expert in the IT industry, and they usually leave the saddles of the horses which they dominate so that the animal passes from step to trot.
