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Speaking to ZDNet yesterday, Jerry Fishenden, Microsoft's key government liaison, said something needs to be done if the IT profession is to earn the respect of normal people.
Quote:
"If you look at what you regard as the traditional professions — doctors, teachers, lawyers — their professional bodies can fire people, can investigate complaints, can impose penalties, and the ultimate sanction is to remove them from the profession so you can't practice any more,"
Fishenden said.
Are Empolyers finding people with specific technical skills than with membership of a professional certificate (such as its own Chartered IT Professional qualification)?
Furthermore, there would be no public demand for IT spods to be legally certified, all the while their cock-ups caused no more harm than wasted tax money. How far would Harold Shipman have got with a modem and some crack codes?
[quote=TheRegister.co.uk"]The professionalisation of the IT workforce is going to take a while to boot. Take the government's efforts to professionalise its 50,000 techies. It was only in March that e-skills UK launched the IT Professional Competency Model, a template of skills the Cabinet Office expects IT workers to guide their career.[/quote]
Have you been victim to an IT bodge job? Tell us about it here!
Do we need a real IT professional certification or accreditation scheme? Is it hard to tell professionals from amatuers, locally?
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