What are the best IT Certifications to get?
Today, I am posing a question to the field: What Information Technology Certifications do you think are the best to get today? There are simply so many of them, it is very hard to decide what to counsel young IT Professionals to pursue.
Personally, I am torn on the subject. I routinely recommend that people go for the CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional), but now I am starting to question that. As the years have gone by the cost of obtaining and renewing that cert have continued to go up. Many people recommend the millions of Microsoft ones that are out there, but again it is very hard in the field to tell the difference between a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Certified Software Engineer.
What I dislike most is that some people have these laundry lists of certs in one field – Microsoft, Oracle, CISCO – but know absolutely zero about Apple or LINUX or UNIX products. How many of you actually work in a homogeneous environment that has only one operating system? What cert tells you that the person is an IT Ninja and not just a poser? That is what I want to know.
Anyhow, here are some links on the subject to get you thinking:
- DICE.com – IT Certifications: Proof or spoof?
- eWeek – Top IT Certs Will Be Less Microsoft-Centric
- Tech Republic – IT certs: Be-all-and-end-all or ticket to ride?
Please share your thoughts on IT certs with us. I wonder if the group thinks as little of them as I do….Thanks.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for November 16, 2009 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credits: bp.blogspot.com
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