Listing certs on email signature or business cards

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Hi peeps,

This has probably been covered loads of times, but anyway...

How do people list their certifications (assuming you do) when you have a list of them? I used to put:

John Smith BSc (Hons) CCVP CCNP

But now CCVP is CCNP Voice, CCNP is CCNP Routing and Switching, then there's CCNP Security..... This makes the whole thing a bit long.

I don't want to list them all to show off but I email external clients all the time as a consultant or network engineer and I think it can give them confidence that you know what you're talking about.

What do people think?

 

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Personally I don't bother, I mean in theory it could take up more bandwidth sending out your sig than the rest of the email. I also think it's a tad tacky but that's just me (forum sigs is a different matter, it's there to show experience etc).

 

I don't bother, my email sig just says 'Developer'.

The industry is full of people who are likely to have a lot more knowledge and experience, trying to gain some false credence based on certifications is tacky.

 

Some companies like you to include it but I think it gets a bit silly when you have a string of them.

 

I don't use it in my signature, but I have the titles of MCSE and MCITP on my business card. I doubt anyone's even seen them on the card/or care

Some colleagues put it in their signature, especially if they've done some of the tougher ones like CISSP and they work in our Security team.

We have a pretty liberal rule around what we can show in our sigs and cards... We just need to exercise some common sense, but occasionally you'll find references to good causes (cancer support for example) or pictures of XBOX logo and the like. I keep my email signature simple (primarily just a phone and fax number, title and address of our office).

 

This is pretty straightforward - professional certifications are not generally to be used as post-nominals. Memberships of professional bodies are allowed of course. So, MCBS is fine, MCP, CCNA etc, etc have no place here.