re: Certifiable

Andrew.Fryer — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:41:09 GMT

If you're an accountant you need to belong to one of four(?) professional bodeis to practice, lawyers belong to the bar or the law society, but BCS simply isn't required to do IT in the UK. Google, Amazon, IBM, Oracle and ourselves don't have it as an essential qualification. I only know one or two members amongst my numerous IT contacts and I can't see how joining it would advance my career. However there should be a porfessional body like this and it should represent the whole profession, so perhaps the answer is for us all to try and join it and change it into the organisation it needs to be.

re: Certifiable

David Saxon — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:54:52 GMT

Interesting view point Andrew.

It certainly doesn't tie up with the experience I had at the beginning of my career trying to get the British Computer Society to recognise my Microsoft certifications (though I'll acknowledge that they're a lot more challenging now than then).

To the best of my knowledge, the BCS still doesn't award points towards it's MBCS scheme based on industry certification, it still thinks a degree is the pinnacle of IT experience.