Certification Magazine - February 2008 - (Page 39) INSIDE CERTIFICATION continued from page 25 • Implementing IT Governance Using COBIT and Val IT certificate, issued by ISACA (available in 2008). Applicants who have earned or acquired other credentials, degrees or certificates that include a significant IT governance or management component and that are not listed above are welcome to submit them to the CGEIT Certification Board for consideration. A grandfathering provision, through which individuals who are highly experienced in the governance of IT may apply for the certification without taking the exam, is now available at www.isaca.org/ cgeitgfapp. Several hundred applications have been received in the two months since the grandfathering program began, and applications will continue to be considered through fall 2008. To earn the CGEIT certification during the grandfathering period, an applicant must: • Have and submit evidence of management, advisory or oversight experience associated with the governance of the IT-related contribution to an enterprise. Eight years of such experience is required and is defined and described specifically by the CGEIT job practice domains and task statements. Specifically necessary is a minimum of one year of experience relating to the development or maintenance of an IT governance framework and additional broad experience related to any two or more of the remaining CGEIT domains. To recognize other management experience or the achievement of IT governance-related credentials, advanced degrees and certificates, up to three years of experience can be substituted (as described above). •Describe his or her experience managing, providing advisory or assurance services, or otherwise supporting the governance of an enterprise’s IT. • Adhere to the ISACA Code of Professional Ethics. • Agree to comply with the CGEIT continuing education policy. • Pay an application fee. 8 John Lainhart is a past president of ISACA and ITGI, and currently is a member of the IT Governance Committee. He is also a partner in the security, privacy, wireless and IT governance service area at IBM Global Business Services, and is certified in CISA, CISM, CGEIT and CIPP/G. He can be reached at editor@certmag.com. INTERFACE continued from page 33 office and allowing unlimited access to a company Amazon.com account. “We spend more every year in books than we do in marketing,” Davis said. “If it’s going to help you solve a problem or you’re going to learn something new, we’re there to support it.” Yet, despite the company’s inclusive attitude toward education, Davis is decidedly more hesitant when it comes to evaluating it. “I definitely think there’s weights when it comes to certifications,” he said. “If you just want to put paper on [your resume] — ‘I got a degree’ — but don’t actually have the knowledge to back that up, to me it’s worthless.” He added: “We look at all of that as, if they’re trying to better themselves, that’s a good point in the first place. [But] we can usually pretty quickly weed out the person who got the certification for money from the guy who got the certification because he really wanted to learn it.” True to Savid Technologies’ general business model, Davis also said he would prefer to hire an engineer who simply knew the technology, regardless of product, but acknowledged that clients do sometimes request engineers with vendor-specific certifications. “So, when I look at resumes, I look at certifications first: what type, how recent, [and] what areas are they in, [compared to] other bullet points they have on their resume,” Davis said. “We use it as a barometer first, see where we’re at, and follow with our own interview process to see how much of that certification has stuck.” So, for potential hires, how much does experience play into the mix? Davis said that it’s not as important for honing technical knowledge as it is for developing soft skills. “If you find those guys who’ve been out in the consumer world — they’ve worked maybe a retail job in the past — they usually know how to relate something using analogies or metaphors to the person,” he said. “We’ve found that the best IT person, engineer-wise, is one that understands the technology and has had that forced consumer interaction back in the day.” 8 – Agatha Gilmore, agilmore@certmag.com February 2008 CERTIFICATION MAGAZINE 39 http://Amazon.com http://www.isaca.org/cgeitgfapp http://www.isaca.org/cgeitgfapp
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