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While I was looking through a thread about the term engineer being overused, I had a thought. (it happens) Someone mentioned about professional organizations. That got me wondering. What organizations are out there for techs, SE's, or whatever you want to be called? Which ones do the wonderful people of the windrivers world belong to?
I am a Member in good standing of the Computing Technology Industry Association. (CompTIA)
an organization dedicated to the highest standards of professionalism in the information technology industry.
I have been in the position of being the prospective employee, and in the position of being the employer looking for an employee. You can bet that an employer looks for a paper trail that shows competence, and a degree is a big plus regardless of what you might surmise from any other post I have made. Any other certs (maybe a degree isn't really a cert?) are a help also. This is particularlly true where you, the dept head, must show and tell to someone who doesn't understand or really care. The paper trail is probably more important to them, so if you find someone who you want to hire, it helps if he/she has lots of paper. That may not be the reason you hire them, but it carries a lot of weight with owners/mangers/personnel gurus. A list of professional references can show you what the person has done and can do, the paper trail will not show you that. So, affiliation with some org, soes it help, yes. Does their test show anything about the person? A lot of the orgs grandfather their member, insuring that a cert from them is meaningless. An org that retests periodically, if they keep up to date with tech advances, can have a cert that has more meaning. Still boils down to action speaks louder than words, especially when they are on paper.
"I wouldn't belong to any organization that would have me...." :D
Gee old timer and I thought you belonged to WinDrivers?Quote:
Originally posted by Sowulo:
"I wouldn't belong to any organization that would have me...." :D
My wife was wondering what your wearing under that sheet man???Quote:
Originally posted by Sowulo:
"I wouldn't belong to any organization that would have me...." :D
I belong to the Benevolent Disorder of Computer Technicians :D
*WARNING* Recruiting information to follow--> I am employed as a computer technician for the United States Air Force. This would explain why some of my posts don't exactly make sense. i.e. the one about me loading Win95A on a machine that had WinNT on it before that....
I don't do what's smart...I do what I'm told! :D
oh and HAPPY 100th POST TO ME!!!
You wouldn't want her to know...LOL wouldn't want to ruin anything for you.... :D :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by clascomp:
My wife was wondering what your wearing under that sheet man???
I belong to the Benevolent Disorder of Computer Technicians :D
Well, since you put it that way...but Windrivers doesn't "have" me....it's my addiction to this place that "owns" me....LOLQuote:
Originally posted by Mr. Jimmr:
Gee old timer and I thought you belonged to WinDrivers?
And a better organization I have yet to come accross. What we need now is to decide what letters we can put after our names. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Jimmr:
Gee old timer and I thought you belonged to WinDrivers?
How about W.D. and the number of posts you have? So a newer member would be "JoeNewbie, WD-40."
WD-40 that's funny :D