[ajug-members] cert.

[Barry Hawkins]

+1 on Dean's comments.  I gave up on certifications about 2004.

If I'm totally honest, when I see a certification displayed  
prominently on a resume, I am expecting to find that experience is  
pretty light.  Certification, much like education, has a highly  
diluted impact on one's effectiveness as a developer of quality  
software.  The benefit I'd gained from certifications in the past was  
exposure to a wide number of topics in a given field which I might not  
have investigated otherwise.  Proficiency in those topics, however,  
was deferred until I'd had practical experience.

Barry Hawkins

On Jul 22, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Dean H. Saxe wrote:

> From personal experience in hiring developers, I don't put much faith
> in certificates.  I'd rather hire someone with demonstrated experience
> who can tell me about previous work experience, describe problems and
> their solutions, etc. than someone who can take a test and pass.
> Passing the test, IMHO, is not a good gauge of ones development
> abilities.
>
> However, the cert usually gets you past the first HR person to look at
> your resume...
>
>
> -dhs
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