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10th Sept: Can Telemetry Replace the Exam? Jim Henderson on Assessing IT Skills in the Flow of Work
In this week's episode, Tim Burnett chats with Jim Henderson, owner of Validify Consulting and a Seattle-based specialist who helps IT companies build high-stakes certification programmes. With around twenty years in assessment — and a career in IT before that — Jim makes the case for assessing competence in the flow of work. They discuss:
Why a knowledge test can only tell you so much about an IT professional, and how reading the telemetry people generate as they work proves they can actually do the job — not just recall it
What certification can borrow from the video game industry…
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