April 10, 2003

Should tech folks bother to get certified?
Posted by jbutler@bostonworks.com">Jason Butler at 8:59 AM -

From Microsoft-ie Duncan Mackenzie's weblog: Certification doesn't prove you know everything, but it certainly helps....

Get certified.. it is cool to have the option to use the letters, but more importantly it can (1) give a little bit of reassurance to someone who is a 1st time client of yours... how could that be bad? and (2) it reassures you that "yep, I do know at least that much...". Sometimes I've thought... "Maybe my programming assignments have all been easy, and I'm not actually even in the league of person x" ... at least with an MCSD I felt that I must have some idea what I'm doing :)

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