https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/12/confounding-generations/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/12/confounding-generations/#comment-821855 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:38:38 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4692#comment-821855 My take on this is also more age and role-based, not generational, from watching discussions about software-oriented certifications on agile mailing lists. Younger people ask which ones to take, that will get better jobs. Older people respond highly skeptical that certifications measure anything useful. Either they recruit and find no or even negative correlation between skills and number of certifications, or they are on the job market and see certifications as a threat to hiring based on experience.

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