The issue of certifications came up again, this time here on Perlmonks: Perl Certification revisited

IMHO the Perl community both needs to help companies to hire people and should avoid the problems of certifications.

I wonder if we should just encourage p2p recommendations that could be easily accessed by potential employees?

I guess we could develop yet another p2p web site where people could sign up and recommend each other but I know many people use LinkedIn and it already has the recommendation feature so we can just use that.

I wonder what others think about this?

Of course it is already there and any one of us can go and recommend the others but we might do more:

Should we try to add some more measurable way of recommendations? e.g. adding a score to the recommendations just like CPANRATINGS for modules?

Should The Perl Foundation be involved in this to give some more official looking face to it?

Should someone (eg. TPF) talk to LinkedIn to get an API and add additional information like a link to our CPAN id or PerlMonk id?

In reply to Personal Recommendations instead of Certificates? by szabgab

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.