Dr. Andres Fortino, Westchester Associate Provost and Dean, was recently quoted in “Skills Assessments for IT Workers,” an article featured on CIO Strategy Center.com
Dr. Fortino commented on why it’s important to measure an IT employee’s skills after he/she is hired:
- For promotion… “Skills assessments give people a visual path toward career advancement, and that helps with retention, notes Andres Fortino,” associate provost at Polytechnic University in New York.
- To create a stronger, more flexible work force… “If an organization has loose definitions as to who’s a programmer and who’s an analyst, there will be some people in some part of the shop who have the title but are not as skilled as others,” Fortino explains. “With declared competencies for each position, the organization can align for evenness. And it can avoid moving staff into jobs they can’t do.”
Read the entire “Skills Assessments for IT Workers” article by By Minda Zetlin