I’m seeing a trend toward certification in lieu of college. Program Management, PMI, Quality, APICs, Air-Conditioning, etc. Pay the $400-500, take the test and add the certification to the resume. Some of these certifications are more important than a college degree. Of course, it’s a money scheme too. You have to have “continuing education” credits and pay money to belong to an organization. But, you get to put their logo on your resume.
I think we’re seeing the end of tradition college. Classes and certifications will be available on-line at a fraction of the cost of a brick and mortar school.
I hope you are right! Somehow we have to break free from the rotten government school system that offers poor education, lots of drugs to buy, bullying, stultifying boredom, and then a useless degree from a leftist dominated college.
Not to mention the myth of “the shortage of Highly skilled American Tech workers”. Why would corporations pay an American Engineer with top $$$$ when they can get an Indian or Chinese worker for cheap.
There’s certainly a lot of certification in IT.
There are tremendous downsides to certifications.
The creeping certification.
The certification bureaucracy.
Say you have been wiggling a while and have worked with world class wigglers. You are beginning to realize how much you enjoy wiggling.
Now there is a new certification for wiggling because other wigglers want quality control in their wiggling and not to have untutored wigglers spoil the reputation of wiggling with the general public.
Besides it is starting to be difficult to get a job without certification. Insurance companies and risk managers begin to advocate then demand certification for employers.
So you are now a certified wiggler. You pay the certifiers for the classes they demand for wiggle continuing education credits so you can keep up your certification. The certification bureaucracy pushes for licensure because there is nothing like the force of the state to make sure that no one wiggles in a way that the bureaucrats disapprove.
Then the certification bureaucracy raises the bar to become a wiggler. First experienced wigglers, then only college-educated wigglers, then 4 year degree and wiggler school, then Masters level wigglers, then five years of experience with the Masters in Wiggling, then the PhD of Wiggling….and so it goes.
All while the certification bureaucracy increases its needs for continuing education and its employees spin off their own companies to provide credits so you can pass tests and keep your certifications and licenses. Wiggle that treadmill!
Of course the bureaucracy wants to get bigger and bigger so it invents different specialized forms of wiggling.
Plain old certified and licensed wiggler.
Wiggling with children certification and license
Geriatric wiggling certification
Corporate wiggling educator
Out door wiggling specialty certification
Each requires its own license/or certification. Practice of each is regulated and requires insurance. The equipment requirements of wiggling increases and don’t you dare wiggle in a non ADA accessible building.
The character requirement of the wiggler requesting licensure and certification is tightened. Far past legal indiscretions can prevent licensed wiggling today.
And you can be sure that wiggling certification cannot happen without the wiggler being at least 18, so the best wiggler teens are stuck wiggling in their rooms until they get bored and turn to drugs, drink and a life of crime.
Sure people want to bypass the current unsustainable and largely irrelevant higher education morass.
But don’t think that it necessarily gets better.
DMW