RE: [PLUG] Job Titles? (Was: web developer job opening)

["Eugene Smiley" <eugene@esmiley.net>]

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Chris Mann wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:30, Magnus wrote:
>> Hiring managers and especially HR people and recruiters often
>> lump all us computer guys together, and randomly choose titles
>> that other computer related workers have had.  I've seen a lot
>> of "system administrator" and "network administrator" confusion,
>> when really they are two distinct disciplines that have a little
>> bit of overlap.  Or "system programmer" and "programmer/analyst"
>> being used to describe a system administrator.  If you search
>> strictly based on your actual job title you're going to be
>> really disappointed.  In job searching today you need to search
>> for all jobs that are even slightly related to your own in order
>> to get all the hits.  It can surely be frustrating.
>
> We were kicking around the job title snafu a few weeks ago here
> at the office. I think everyone agrees that for the most part,
> unless your in the IT industry, the difference between a sysadmin
> and a netadmin appears to be semantics. However to those of us in
> the industry, the difference is pretty glaring.
>
> What we thought would be interesting is to see the formation of a
> IT Guild of sorts, with ratings of Apprentice to Master in the
> fields and sub fields of the industry. That would give a pretty
> easy and clear cut job title and ability of the person.
>
> Then again, we thought that since that idea kind of makes sense it
> probably won't happen for umteen million reason.

There is http://www.scguild.com/, which might fit the bill. It
doesn't give you a rating, but you could suggest it to them.

Also, you could check out http://www.brainbench.com/ about the
ratings idea. Brainbench calls it certification. They are still
working on adding job roles, so if there is one that you think
should be there, suggest it to them.

Personally, I am looking for an agent -- someone that will go out
and sell my skills -- like in http://www.fortune.com/fortune/ideas/articles/0,15114,448184,00.html.


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