Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Why does IT's doesn't have a license exam.

Information Technology doesn't have a licensure exam, well I think it because being an Information Technologist is so easy to achieve. You learn it easily or maybe just by your own. It is so easy to be achieved even just in surfing in internet. There's no such expertise to be exercised. 
I find it helpful to learn from other well-established professions like medicine or law. One of the most striking aspects of professions is their longevity and durability. This is no accident. Professions form around domains of permanent human concerns: things that concern everyone, in all times, places, and cultures. For example, no human being can escape health concerns. Sooner or later everyone has a health breakdown and seeks professional help. The health-care professional needs deep expertise to be helpful, expertise well beyond what an amateur can learn by reading or by word of mouth. The health-care professional must be well trained and oriented toward helping people. Similar statements can be made about law. No human being can escape concerns about laws where they live and work. There comes a time, sooner or later, when everyone seeks professional help with legal problems such as mortgages, deeds, wills, trusts, business deals, taxes, and much more.We will just recognize those persons being an Information Technology professionals through knowing "Our traditional view of computer scientists as programmers and systems analysts is far too narrow. Traditional computer science does not address the full range of concerns people have about information technology and is frequently criticized for various types of narrowness. Let me give you some examples. Few computer science departments offer specialties in information security, now a leading concern of users of information systems. Many software engineers now believe that traditional computer science programs are too narrow to accommodate the scientific and professional core of software engineering; they are moving to establish separate degree programs and departments. Many employers believe that computer science departments overemphasize theory; they rely on their corporate universities to close the gap by supplying practical training in IT. 


Computer science departments do not address the educational needs of all those help-desk technicians -- the people who answer telephone questions about software and personal computers. Although not trained as computer scientists, these technicians are taking care of other people's concerns about their computers and networks. They are, in my book, bona fide members of the IT profession. The same can be said of professional website designers."
That's why, I am not convinced in licensure exam just because we, as an IT studies in broad. we're not focusing in just one field but almost in different fields. We do works in simultaneous jobs. We create, tranform and innovate and that's what i admired the most. I really love to be an Information technology Professional no matter what, it may include license or it may not. It is my passion and it will be forever my passion.

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