We are forming a committee to develop a certification program based on roles and responsibilites, and we want you to help. The concept is that when an employer is looking for a person with SharePoint experience, the employer typically does not understand what it is they are looking for. For example, I often hear that someone wants a SharePoint developer, but when the candidate looks at the work, it could have easily been done by an administrator.

It is our goal to help shape the SharePoint community by accurately defining the roles and responsibilities and building a certification program around them. Then when employers look to fill a posistion, they can define it by using the defined categories we have established:

1. Architects … how to design a SharePoint implementation
2. Power users … site administration, site templates, Web parts
3. Content creators … use document libraries
4. Project Managers … working with SharePoint-oriented projects
5. Information management specialists … building taxonomies
6. Compliance specialists … record and document management – meeting compliance
7. Web content managers … publish from staging to production environments
8. Developers … SharePoint Designer, workflow, building sites using features.

If you have somthing to contribute, we encourage you to join us and make this program a success.