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In This Issue: :: What�s New @ MC MCSE :: New Exchange 2003 exam :: New Windows 2003 Security Exam :: CCIE Program Updates :: New Salary Survey :: Commentary: Excuse Me, Are You an IT Professional? :: At the Boards
Contest Launched: We have just unleashed a new giveaway on the site that is offering nearly $3,000 in prizes from Career Academy, Measure Up, and Train Signal. For more information about the contest, check out our contest information page. New Moderator: We would like to welcome Foxynox as our newest moderator. He has been a regular contributor over the last 8 months and will now be helping out in several of the Microsoft Certification forums as well as the Real World Windows 2000/XP/2003 forums.
Most of the new exams for the MCSE and MCSA titles will be available in August.
The sad truth about this industry is that it consists of a large percentage of highly unqualified people, and these people are seriously tarnishing the image of real IT professionals with their incompetence, lack of real knowledge and poor behavior. The problem starts with the mentality of non-technical people in positions of influence who believe that IT professionals are people who know how to use a mouse and all IT problems can be solved with a click. This is a very scary definition and it has introduced two major headaches into the current IT industry. Problem # 1 - Mismatched and Overworked IT ProfessionalsThis is a serious problem because most hiring managers and HR professionals see no difference between a programmer and a system administrator; we are just the people who sit in front of the computer all day pressing a few buttons. (This leads to the common phenomena where a system engineer is asked to do programming jobs or a web developer is forced to maintain a network.) However, the worst that can really happen to any IT professional is being turned into a "one man IT department". Imagine yourself doing everything from data-entry to end-user support, system administration, network setup, programming, web design, IT related paper work, liaison with vendors, and not to mention meetings and sometimes electrical appliances/equipment every single day of your working life. And this is indeed happening because managers have the impression that anything related to IT can simply be solved with just a click or 2 on a computer icon. Poor chaps like these will most probably die of overwork or caffeine-poisoning. Even if they survive the abuse, they will most likely become disgruntled and in need of therapy. To illustrate the problem in a different manner, let's use the context of a hospital. Imagine that there is only 1 neurosurgeon in a hospital and this hospital performs 2 neuro-surgeries everyday (each surgery takes 4 hours). We also have 10 junior doctors who are supposed to attend to 50 cases of the flu everyday (each common flu consultation takes 10 minutes). If you are the CEO of this hospital, would you have the neurosurgeon handle the flu patients every day? You'll end up having 10 idle junior doctors, 1 extremely overworked neurosurgeon and 2 dead patients every day. Read the rest of this article
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