edX certificates on the CV, yay or nay?

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first of I don't plan on purchasing a edX cert, I am currently doing a course on there and they wand 99 USD to obtain a cert from them, their reasons are to keep courses free by raising money from selling their certs, which I think is fair enough however the price is too high, they would probs do better to lower the price to around 30 USD which is more reasonable. Anyway has anyone actually purchased a course completion cert from them, and if so do you list it on your cv?

 

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Its free to audit most courses so you can just do that if you don't want to pay.

I have taken 11 edx courses and about 20 coursera courses, I took most as audit, I only purchased a couple of certificates.

I have them on my linked in, but no I don't tend to list them on my CV, unless I think it might help.

 

They are MOOC's Massive open online courses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

Its not really to do with exams or certification, the point is they teach you and you learn stuff. Personally I think it works better than certification.

 

Places like google don't even mandate degrees nowadays, learn the subject well, write a good CV, apply for the job, do well in the interview, simples.

There is no causation between certification and salary, never has been.

 

https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-devops-engineer-salary
https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-big-data-salary
https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-linux-salary
https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-developer-salary
https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-sales-salary

Seems people with MCSE get paid less...

I prefer itjobswatch.co.uk, but the results are similar.

The list of most common CV keywords is :
Developer, Agile Software Development, Finance, Analyst, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Microsoft, Windows, Banking, Linux, HTML
Security Cleared, TDD, C#, Scrum, Stakeholder Management, Project Management, CSS, .NET

MCSE doesn't show up until you get down to 393, hardly a great sign.
If you sort by pay rate you have to go to page 239 to find MCSE !
https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contract.aspx?page=239&sortby=3&orderby=0&q=&id=0&lid=2618

If you sort it by salary all the top positions are finance and management.

https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/mcse.do
https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/powershell.do

You could probably earn more simply by learning powershell.