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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: 3, Insightful) by Nuke on Monday November 17 2014, @02:15PM
Wrote :- "When you are looking for an employee, do you look at pieces of paper ...... or do you trust references and resumes?
My wife is a book keeper and spent a lot of time and money getting paper qualifications. She is also good at it, and has a lot of experience. She has changed jobs twice in recent years and found that at interviews the employers (small companies) were not the slightest bit interested in the paper qualifications, for the simple reason they did not know what they meant (Grade 2 IAB or something like that). Why would they? - they are decorators, car repair workshops, furniture shops etc. It would be the same with IT with such companies.
OTOH, the employers relied too much on previous experience. My wife once worked with another book keeper who was absolutely useless. They managed to get rid of the woman in the end, but she walked straight into another job simply because she was able to say that she had done it before.
References? If a company wants to get rid of an employee, they give a good reference.
""What's wrong with a practical?"
How would a car repair workshop manager know how to set a practical book keeping test? Book keeping qualifications issued by such as the IAB are based on exams that already include practical tests.