At 5:37 PM +0000 8/1/04, ted bivins wrote:
>Technically, a person cannot specify an expired certification on their
>resume as being current. The CCNP is not an easy certification to aquire. I
>would be wondering why a professional would allow his certification to
>expire.
There's a point at which one's track record and resume should
outweigh an older certification.
>I don't think that you will find many leading doctors allowing their
>skills to become outdated.
To take your medical examples, most specialty boards do require
certified physicians to take a certain number of continuing education
credits per year, but I don't know of any that require a full
recertification except when rehabilitating an impaired physician who
has been told to retrain. A professional such as a physician is
expected, as a matter of professional ethics, to keep skills current.
It's also entirely possible that a particular certification is no
longer relevant. For example, simplifying the mechanics a little, one
has to pass the exam of the National Board of Medical Examiners to
get the MD degree. One has to pass the exam of the American College
of Physicians to be board-eligible* for certification in Internal
Medicine, someone at least board-eligible in Internal Medicine still
has to pass the exam of the American College of Cariology to be
board-eligible in cardiology. There are additional certification
levels beyond that for invasive cardiology such as cardiac
catheterization or electrophysiological mapping, and then
interventional cardiology such as angioplasty or radiofrequency
ablation.
By the time one is a qualified interventional cardiologist, one very
well may have forgotten the orthopedics or dermatology they needed to
pass their original National Boards. If I break a leg, I'm not going
to call an interventional cardiologist to set the bone or operate on
it.
>Those of us that work in the Network Engineering
>Community should hold as much value to our certifications as those in other
>career fields, if nothing else but to prevent potential employers like this
>one to perceive that a certification is not as important or relevant as
>having a degree. Not that I want to start that thread again...
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