What is important when you are looking for a job? Credentials? I mean, if you get the MCSD or MCAD.NET, would you be in an advantageous positions? Anybody can give me the answer?
In my opinion actual hands on experience is the best. Anyone can get certified,b ut if you get a cert and have experience also thats a big plus. I currently have 10 years IT experience with no certs and know more then some people i worked with that are certified.
At my current job our 'tech lead" has MCSD and can't write line of code to save her life, all she as is books smarts but now working experience or knowledge. just my 2 cents
I second that. Whenever I've been in a position of evaluating candidates I look for (in this order): 1. Work Experience 2. Evidence they take their career seriously (i.e. Dedication to furthering their skills, etc). 3. Communication skills 4. School (i.e. BS
in Comp Sci , etc) 5. Certs The certs aren't a showstopper. But it can be a nice tiebreaker. I'm also more impressed to see someone have a newer cert, because the older ones have been braindumped to death and anyone could get one. Note that someone obtaining
certs helps to satisfy criteria number 2 above.
Certifications - In my case, I dont believe in certifications because based in my experience, anyone without any experience at all can get certified by just reading lots of books (I dont know if you agree). Work Experience - It DEPENDS. An applicant with 3
yrs experience can be more skilled than those with 5 yrs experience. Summary - Its not always the work experience, school, certification, etc. but ON HOW ONE WORKS. Not all developers are good or bad either but its on how he works that make him stays on top.
- Its not always the work experience, school, certification, etc. but ON HOW ONE WORKS. Not all developers are good or bad either but its on how he works that make him stays on top. ==================== What are some qualities you look for in ones work habits?
::Certifications VERY useful. Unless a developer is extraordinary and exposed, I value certs pretty high. They tell me he has atl east the book knowledge about a toopic. You wont beliee how many database develoeprs are out there that have never read the SQL
syntax. A certification shows me he has at least this level. ::Work Experience Smaller 5 years? Make this a junior position, please. Smaller two years? Trainee, even from university. 95% of the developers out there are purely incompettent, I dont need any
of these on my team.
"I currently have 10 years IT experience with no certs and know more then some people i worked with that are certified. At my current job our 'tech lead" has MCSD and can't write line of code to save her life, all she as is books smarts but now working experience
or knowledge." I find that amusing. That is a great example of why, no matter what you think is important, certifications are very important. She's the tech lead, not you. Guess who makes more money and the job still gets done because you did it, even if you
had to do it for her.
Certifications are the managers way of understanding job skills they don't understand. Most certifications are useless from a knowledge standpoint, but since most IT managers have no clue what they are looking for in an employee, they look for certifications.
I have a colleague, 25 years experience and several MS certificates, who thinks certifications are just a money making business for MS :) . Good if you are in-experienced and trying to get into the job market, useless otherwise. Most certificates don't address
common sense, they just drill a large number of facts about a particular product in to your head. Most of the time it doesn't include what you actually need to get the job done. I value the certificates that actually require you to build something or solve
real world problems before you get them, somewhat higher (like for instance a security certificate that actually requires you to hack a hardened system succesfully before you get it :) ).
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
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