Design experience Sharing: Ability does not require certification

Eight years ago, I saw a classmate holding a book that was about three fingers wide all day. Curious past ask, he said is studying MCSE course, I ask what is MCSE? Oh, the test of the Microsoft Certified System engineer, it sounds so damn handsome. And no threshold who can test, seemingly admitted to the Microsoft family feeling, it is easy to let us such an ignorant teenager dumb impulse.

When the market was good, it was said that training for a few months to get the card, and then immediately find a job, said income is also good. So I ran the Haidian book City bought five courses of books, add up the thickness and weight, completely worthy of hundreds of yuan price.

At the same time, the major training institutions are in the hot push of various certification courses, such as Adobe, Microsoft, Cisco, Macromedia and other big-name, but the course fee is expensive. I can not afford to pay the money had to self-study, after learning almost, ran to ask the exam and learned that the test fee explosion expensive, a door seems to be 450 yuan, five doors will need more than 2000. For me to have independent thinking of the poor, the result is naturally not to test, and quickly see the ugly face of the chain of the industry.

In the following years, a variety of certified gold significantly reduced. The reason is not difficult to think, on the one hand the low threshold and the actual technical content is not high, on the other hand, "a little understand" more and more people. Of course, this with the major training institutions "help" efforts, as well as the traditional test-oriented education system, the Chinese people in the best exam. In fact, it is not difficult to think of dialectics, it is easy to get the "certificate" must not have too much real technical content of the existence, because any professional field of knowledge accumulation can not be accelerated. In turn, a few hours of "exams" cannot actually reflect a person's true standard.

Eight years later, chatting with a Chinese big brother who was in the United States 2000 years ago, he said that was the case in the United States. Training a few months, come out really can get tens of thousands of dollars of annual salary. But, because the Native Americans do not want to do these little creative work, he has done it for several months and can not go on.

In the discussion area commonly consulted Internet product design related "Authentication" Netizen, Think big name company or authoritative organization sends a "exempt" red Book useful people, in fact, the size of the company to all kinds of "documents" interest is not large. For example, I do not believe that the 46-level English certificate than a full English interview more persuasive, the interviewer should not. From a psychological point of view, the desire to seek "certification" to circumstantial evidence of their own strength of mind, in fact, is not a manifestation of self-confidence.

This conclusion also applies to more people concerned about "academic, professional" issues, now very few companies (except state-owned enterprises) because of education or professional refusal of good talent, because the real talent is too little too few. The company set a degree and professional threshold, in fact, because the recruiter is "not confident" to the last resort. Education is only a person more than 10 years of exam-oriented education development in miniature, professional obviously more unreliable, the reality exists more because of "unexpected" achievements of the master.

I do things, people often warn themselves "people are not stupid." "But reality has taught me, not how many fools, but the harmonious society needs a large number of fools to highlight the success of a small number of" smart people.

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