atw: Re: Accreditation
- From: Andrea Tappe <Andrea.Tappe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:16:34 +1000
Hello Matilda,
Your 'problems' apply equally to other industries - for example,
secretaries:
1. Work in a variety of industries (IT, medical, engineering etc)
2. Don't have any single qualification - some hold degrees, some have a TAFE
certificate and some simply have experience.
Not that I want to suggest that we are in any way equivalent to secretaries!
However, the analogy can easily be extended to the accreditation debate in
that:
1. Competent secretaries have a core skill set, and the presence or absence
of these skills can fairly easily be identified by the employer or an
agency.
2. Secretaries can supplement that core skill set with domain knowledge to
work in a specialised field, for example they can do a course to learn
sufficient medical terminology to work in a doctor's office or a hospital.
As for point 3, I wouldn't rest easy in the knowledge that we can't be sued!
If someone chops a finger off or electrocutes themselves following dodgy
instructions, I'm sure the person who wrote the instructions would cop some
of what was going around.
Also, I think that employers and recruiters would recognise some value-add
from accreditation, if accreditation translates into some minimum level of
competence which means:
- no need to rewrite dodgy docco
- no project over-runs because the docco isn't completed
- no customer complaints because they can't use the docco
- reduction in help desk costs because people RTFM!!
Thanks and regards
Andrea
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