🛑 When Sir leaves are oversupplied, but real workers are scarce?

🛑 When the leaves are oversupplied, but the real workers are scarce?

Is the diploma becoming an ornament of profile, rather than a proof of actual competence?

If you have opened LinkedIn in recent years, especially in technology, you will see a phenomenon in the last few years:

"The names of many people are getting longer and longer from being appended with the initials of institutions with pictures posting new diplomas that have just passed the exam."

On one hand, further learning and the Certification Exam are not wrong; on the other hand, it reflects the self-improvement intentions of modern working people.

But the question that many executives are starting to raise in the real world is, are organizations getting more "real experts" or are they living in an age when everyone is just having Certification and playing a professional role through paper rather than the results of their work?

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🛍️ Why has Ser Leaf become a "best-seller" commodity in the labour market?

Certification's popularity is not accidental, but due to the motivation of the modern labour market system that has given it high symbolic value.

1. Filter of the recruitment system

* In many organizations, screening of candidates starts with reading a large number of resumes in a limited time, so recruiting parties often use Certification as an aid to screening primary candidates.

* Having a Ser leaf acts like a "sign" that this candidate has the will to improve himself. Even in reality, Ser leaf does not guarantee his ability to do real work.

2. Shortcuts to learning theory

* Many Certification courses are designed to allow learners to understand the Framework or key concepts within a short time.

* For early-career workers, this may be a way to get a quick glimpse of how to think in the industry.

3. Symbol of professionalism

* In the world of online profiles, Certification acts like an intellectual brand name.

* It helps build a credible image and increases the likelihood of being seen in the labor market.

4. Competition mechanism of the labour market

* When many people start having Certification, people who don't have it feel like they're at a disadvantage.

* This phenomenon causes sier leaf accumulation competition similar to degree accumulation in the past.

* The result is that Ser leaves gradually become a "minimum standard" rather than a distinction.

5. Personal Branding Pressure

* In the LinkedIn and Social Profile eras, having Certification becomes part of building a career image.

* Posting a new diploma is therefore not just learning, but also a signal to the labour market that it itself is constantly evolving.

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📉, when the textbook world has to clash with the real world,

But as soon as the workers step out of the exam room and into the corporate environment, another set of truths appears, and this is where many people start to discover that diplomas do not explain the complexity of the working world at all.

1. The truth of cross-functional work

* In the Framework texts, everything looks systematic and has clear procedures.

* But in a real organization, the team consists of people from different backgrounds, engineers, marketers, sales, and operations.

* The success of the task therefore depends not on the accurate recitation of the Framework, but on the ability to communicate, coordinate and find common ground between multiple perspectives.

2. Economy of the Ser business

* Many Certification has an expiration date and must be renewed every two to three years.

* This system creates a business cycle of continuous training, examination and renewal.

* In practice, a small number of workers become regular customers of the institution rather than value creators for the organization.

3. Knowledge expires faster than the course.

* In an era when new technologies and tools occur virtually every year, knowledge in the real field changes very quickly.

* Many courses may therefore be outdated before the content is even updated.

* The Framework, which was called Best Practice a few years ago, may not fit the current organizational context.

4. The complexity of the actual organization

* Texts may describe work processes linearly, but in real organizations are often filled with constraints such as power structure, budget, or organizational culture.

* Actual work therefore relies on experience, negotiation and adaptation rather than on the anchoring of the Framework.

5. Skills that texts cannot teach

* Ability to make decisions under uncertainty

* Leading the team in pressure situations.

* Prioritizing business issues

* These skills are usually based on page experience and cannot be measured by exams or certificates alone.

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🎭 Bad joke of a modern organization?

A small number of organizations invest large budgets to send employees to international training and Certification exams, especially in Product or Agile technology, in the hope that employees will return to help raise the organization's work standards.

A common example is that companies support expensive foreign or online courses with exam expenses, sometimes worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of baht per person.

* In the corporate corner, this investment has a clear goal: hope for employees to come back and improve their work processes, such as adopting a new Framework to help teams work faster or help raise team standards close to the international organization.

* But in the real working world, what happens in many cases is different, because as soon as an employee passes the exam and gets a new certificate, the first thing many people do is update their profile on LinkedIn and add a Certification shortened letter to the end of their own name.

* Within a short time, messages from Recruiter or rival companies began to appear in text boxes because these user leaves served as a "sign in the labor market" that this person was increasing in value?

The result became a situation that many executives found in common: "Organizations invest to improve their employees' abilities, but has the slippers become more of an employee's self-worth tool in the labor market than become a strategic asset of the organization itself?"

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🔎 At some point in his career, Ser's will begin to change in meaning.

For early-career workers, Certification may act like a "ticket through the door" that allows opportunities to step into the industry, or makes HR easier to see the candidate's profile.

For example, a startup in the Product or Agile line, with a basic user blade, might help the company believe that this person understands the industry's initial vocabulary and ideas, but as experience increases, what executives look for will start to change clearly, because in the real world, the problems faced by organizations are often not in the texts.

Think of a simple situation, such as the Product team having to decide whether to postpone the launch of a new feature? Because the team of engineers encountered a technical problem while the business was speeding up sales, and the marketing department had already announced the campaign.

* In this situation, no Framework or Certification test can provide a ready answer.

* What management wants is therefore not someone who fully remembers the steps in the texts, but someone who can rationally weigh the risks, communicate with multiple parties, and make decisions under uncertainty.

* Experience from decision-making in real situations, coping with organizational constraints, and leading the team through pressure from multiple directions.

* These skills are things that gradually accumulate from practical work, and they are things that no exam can truly measure.

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✨ "A piece of paper may open the door, but it does not create works."

"Certification is not a bad thing." It can help open up learning and networking opportunities early in a career, but in the long run, the success of working people is not judged by the number of certificates accumulated.

Organizations that create real innovation are not from people who remember the Framework the most, but from people who understand user problems, understand organizational limitations, and dare to adapt to create solutions in the real world, and that is skills that no diploma can endorse.

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