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Moving towards Java land I recently took a SCJP certification and got reminded about how hard it is to measure knowledge and skill. Second up is, even if it would be possible to measure it in a good fashion what would you do with the score? Consider a person with both tons of knowledge and skill, but without sense for quality or ambition to do a good job. What would such values give you then?

Not providing any solution here, but it seems as if it is harder to give people a sense of quality and motivation to do a good job compared to improving their skills…