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Subject:Re: Certification: Ernest and Scribbler From:Milan Davidović <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Steven Jong <stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net> Date:Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:47:22 -0400
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Steven Jong <stevefjong -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> But in other professional and technical fields, certification has significant measurable financial value to employers, practitioners, credentialing associations, and the public. I'm talking money, folks. Employers find certified professionals more valuable, so they compete for them, and thus have to pay them more than uncertified professionals to get them. You'd better believe we looked at this as part of our information gathering, and we saw no reason why this pattern won't hold for technical communicators.
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