Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home...
by vonmoltke on Friday April 20, 2018 @04:49PM
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> So because some licenses don't have ongoing re-certification requirements, that means all license are bad?
That is not at all what I said. I was addressing how licensure does very little to prove competence for the three trades specified in the post.
> Couldn't it just be that a "programming license" has regular testing and re-certification?
How many licenses require recertification? Why do you think a programming one would? Continuing education requirements do not count for this, as they are mere completion measures.
> Because a license/certification test is the exact definition of "skills/competency assessment".
Yes, and this test needs to be passed once. The longer ago it was, the less it says about the person now.
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home...
by freehunter on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:21PM
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>Why do you think a programming one would?
Because it doesn’t exist yet, and my hypothetical is just as good as yours.
Because a license/certification test is the exact definition of "skills/competency assessment". If the licensing test doesn't meet those needs, that's not the fault of licenses in general, that's a fault in the test and can be fixed.