Worth doing any more certs if no experience?

Discussion in 'Training & Development' started by jo74, Feb 14, 2010.

  1. jo74

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    I've got three Comptia certs, am going to do the MCDST (when I can afford it, that is). But would it be worth doing any others? Obviously not CCNA, MCSE (learn my lesson there :oops:).

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  2. LukeP

    LukeP Gigabyte Poster

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    To be honest with you I don't think it would be.

    Try to get some experience. Volunteering maybe?
    In the meantime learn what you can but I don't think pursuing any more certifications is worth it.

    As soon as you start getting experience you're free to go to certify in what you got experience in.
     
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  3. SimonD
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    Nope, my stance on people with too many certs and not enough experience is simply not to hire them, harsh yes but having been burnt in the past I don't see why someone with too many certs but no experience should take a job over someone with experience but no certs.

    One of the best people I have seen recently is 25 and only recently started to get certified (the funny thing is he went for the VCP as his first cert, he now has his ESX and vSphere VCP's), his technical skills are just superb and it was my suggestion that he started to get certified now to show both his experience and certifications were worth something to his employers.
     
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    This.
     
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