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> that sounds quite sad that they define their self-worth by some piece of paper given to them That sounds sad to you because you are looking at it from a West
by sumedh 8y ago
> that sounds quite sad that they define their self-worth by some piece of paper given to them
That sounds sad to you because you are looking at it from a Western perspective, when you have couple of hundred people interested for a job you can use a certification to filter lot of the candidates.
- piva00 8y agoAnd like any metric that is easier to "game" you end up in the situation where a bunch of people go for the easy route of taking certifications because they act as a filter and that same filter doesn't work as intended because people are gaming the system. It's much harder to game a system where evaluation of a candidate's skills is the filter, to game this you become a cheater. Of course that it's also harder to scale but if India has such a huge problem in filtering candidates there must exist some companies doing good skill-based assessments and that should be the way forward. Or just keep the status quo of needing to take certifications and competing with unqualified people that have the same papers you have, for me it's a race to the bottom.
- sumedh 8y ago> It's much harder to game a system where evaluation of a candidate's skills is the filter Agree, which is why some Indian companies have started using skills based assessment websites now.