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Five-year-old Passes Microsoft Certified Professional Exam

posted by LaminatorX on Monday November 17 2014, @12:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the kindergarten-consulting dept.

isostatic writes:

A British five year old has passed the MCP exam, proving he's both a Minesweeper Consultant as well as a Solitaire Expert. His family pretty much agree that it's just a matter of memorising the multiple choice answers: The hardest challenge was explaining the language of the test to a five-year-old. But he seemed to pick it up and has a very good memory.

When you are looking for an employee, do you look at pieces of paper that a five year old can get from memorising a few answers, or do you trust references and resumes?

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Sir Garlon on Monday November 17 2014, @01:25PM

    by Sir Garlon (1264) on Monday November 17 2014, @01:25PM (#116706)

    If a candidate can actually solve real-world IT problems, then who cares if he is five or ninety-five? Well, presumably the UK has laws prohibiting employment of a child that young anyway, but if it were permissible to hire him for a few hours a week, I'd consider it. Let's see how he interviews. From TFA, I have some doubts about his communication skills meeting even the lenient standards of the IT world. So that's what I'd tell the interviewers to focus on.

    On a serious note: if a young kid (maybe not that young) wanted to volunteer for Soylent, would we accept him? Would we treat him properly?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday November 17 2014, @02:17PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday November 17 2014, @02:17PM (#116725) Journal

    > but if it were permissible to hire him for a few hours a week, I'd consider it.

    I know we all like to bitch and moan about how junior IT employees need their arses wiped for them, but this would be taking it too far for me.

  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday November 17 2014, @03:54PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Monday November 17 2014, @03:54PM (#116776) Journal

    If a candidate can actually solve real-world IT problems, then who cares if he is five or ninety-five?

    If you had a staff photo of a British five year old, it might count as child porn or something equally ridiculous [soylentnews.org].

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