[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

[Hari Sekhon]

Caroline Ford wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2009, at 14:27, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Jason Clifford wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 13:51 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> One University lecturer who I know is teaching a database course,  
>>>> most of it on MS access.
>>>> A bit of MS SQL -- I suggested MySQL (which he doesn't know) and  
>>>> was told that it
>>>> is not what they would ever want to know. (or something).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> So the lecturer is an idiot. That doesn't mean he is running a MS
>>> accreditation programme.
>>>
>>> That degrees are not perfect isn't news. That people are likely to be
>>> using the dominant desktop platform should not surprise anyone  
>>> either.
>>> Still none of those things mean that vendor specific accreditation is
>>> suitable for inclusion as credit in a degree programme
>>>       
>> What about vendor neutral ones then, CompTIA is equally useless so  
>> would
>> slot in well in to a degree program...
>>     
>
> So degrees are crap if you haven't got one? Is there more to this  
> thread that I've missed?
>   
I've had several people with Masters and BSc degrees telling me they are 
crap after they did have them. A couple told me their Masters was only 
good for getting them their first job and that was it...
not teaching programming to a professional standard is actually a 
complaint I got from one of those I met over the years with reference to 
his own degree... (I've done a couple of CompTIAs and can honestly say 
CompTIA is useless too - but it would be unfair to call say a CCIE crap 
when it clearly isn't so maybe an IT degree from MIT/Berkeley is worth 
doing if you can get in and afford it and think there will be enough of 
an IT market afterwards to justify the cost) but to tie back in to the 
original poster's job advert, perhaps a green grad is just the right 
solution., they don't have many other options short of going to another 
profession anyway (which a lot of them do eventually after 
trying/failing to get in to IT).

Of course, 3-6 months in to getting some experience the green grad will 
be gone again for a 2K pay rise and back to square one.

-h

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Hari Sekhon
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