By tim, on May 21st, 2010 at 9:05 pm For those of you that don’t like my occasional rants, stop reading now. You’ll not like this post at all.
Normally my copy of the BCS iTNOW magazine – the magazine for the IT professional – goes straight into the recycling bin. It’s about as poor an example of a professional magazine as you can get – particularly if you compare it to the wonderful publication that the British Psychological Society provides for its members.
Anyway, I had cause to read the current edition that arrived yesterday, as some weeks ago I’d been contacted by the BCS (as one of . . . → Read More: Vote for me – with a stubby pencil, please
By tim, on March 19th, 2010 at 8:03 pm I’ve had a letter from the BCS today confirming they’ve awarded me Chartered IT Professional status, so I can now use the CITP post nominal after my name. Good news. I’m glad I finally got around to applying!
Unfortunately, the very first thing I’ve had to do as a CITP is to email them and ask for a replacement certificate. A combination of inadequate packaging and the Royal Mail managed to turn it into a very sad-looking creased and torn thing on its journey from Swindon to Derby. The envelope it came in wasn’t even marked ‘please do not bend’. . . . → Read More: I’m now a CITP, albeit a bit torn and creased
By tim, on March 5th, 2010 at 6:42 pm CITP Application Status
I had my online CITP interview yesterday morning with two very friendly assessors. Now all I need is the result! Whatever, it was an enjoyable experience from my side, even though the conferencing software played up and we ended up resorting to a telephone conference for audio (and the video never did work for one of the assessors.) It also ate my presentation somewhere towards the end of the hour … but we’d finished with it by then anyway. Maybe the BCS should try Netviewer instead – it seems to operate flawlessly at work for us.
. . . → Read More: CITP – I might be nearly there!
By tim, on February 24th, 2010 at 10:31 pm Having started the process of attempting to get my CITP professional qualification last October, I’ve now finally got a date from the BCS for the last stage. My CV has been reviewed, I bashed my way through the breadth of knowledge test at the start of January and now my online interview with the assessors is arranged for March 4th. Provided I manage to get through that I’m all done. Well, at least for another 5 years … when if I want to maintain the qualification I have to go through it all over again…
On another computing-related note, the . . . → Read More: CITP – the final reckoning approaches
By tim, on January 12th, 2010 at 8:12 pm As I mentioned in an earlier post, I took my CITP ‘breadth of knowledge’ test last week. I’ve had the official email through tonight confirming that I managed to get enough marks to pass. Hurrah! Just the presentation and interview to go and I get a nice new shiny post-nominal to go with my BSc and MBCS.
I can’t say anything about the breadth of knowledge test itself as you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement before you take it, but for anyone else looking at doing this, make sure you do the mock test beforehand (and look very closely . . . → Read More: CITP application – two stages down, one to go
By tim, on December 18th, 2009 at 8:01 pm The DD303 course materials arrived yesterday afternoon as I was trying to manfully fight off man-flu (and failing.) As the character who used to turn into the incredible hulk on a Saturday teatime many years ago used to say: “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry poorly.” Well, parts of me were definitely a hideous shade of green yesterday, but I didn’t suddenly grow the muscles to compensate, unfortunately.
The somewhat unexpected arrival of the books did take my mind off things for a little while and DD303 looks like a very different kind of course to ED209, that’s for . . . → Read More: The arrival of the DD303 course materials
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