| Sir Big Mac 2003-01-17, 5:23 pm |
| Do the college degree AND the certifications. That's what I am doing. If
you can do it, the way to go is to get both.
Why?
Possessing a valid college degree marks you as a person who is willing to do
what it takes to "succeed" at most any endeavor; it also marks you as
someone who is willing to learn. You can accept it as an article of faith
that no employer in our current economic situation is going to be interested
in you as an applicant if you haven't proven your ability to both educate
yourself in many different subjects and to stick out a project for its
duration. Degrees are considered the single best indicator of an
individual's ability to do both.
Both those qualities are important to managers as they are indicative of an
applicant who can be considered a good hiring risk.
Pursuing the certifications will also mark you as someone who can tough out
a long slog through a difficult process, as getting any significant
certification (MCSE, MCDBA, CCNP, Oracle anything) is going to involve time,
practice, and study, all in very significant quantities.
In the eyes of many employers nowadays, a person who only has the
certification (without any other type of qualification, whether it be a
degree or long-term practical experience) cannot be considered to be a
qualified applicant - a phenomenon that we can thank the braindump crowd
for. Having braindumps available online for cheaters to use makes everyone
with a certification guilty by association of having done the same, which is
all the more reason for an applicant to have a degree and certifications.
Applicants with both are one step above the certification-only applicants,
again because they are considered to be people who have completed a long and
difficult project and who are able to learn any subject they may need to
learn as part of your new job.
srb
>>-----Original Message-----
>> Which should come first for a person who wants to be
>a
>>network administrator: a college degree or the Microsoft
>>certification?
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