I'm seeing this trend on LinkedIn
nowadays where everyone is posting
about the course completion certificates.
You know okay I have completed this data
science
course from this particular institute
they post nice looking certificate.
oh I completed this Google Data
Analytics certification program.
It's okay to post those certificates I
understand you have done all the hard
work you want to share
your sense of achievement with your
family and friends.
but I want to tell you one thing that
certificate
is not going to help you get a job.
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I'm just going to give you my honest
opinion because I have been interviewing
people for past 10 years
and when I look at the resume I give
zero credit...
Zero credit to your certificate. Now
there could be some other interviewers
who might give
maybe a little bit credit you know might
be like this much little bit
but not much. Your selection
at any job depends on your own
performance during the interview
when I'm interviewing per person of
course the interview performance matters
and
the other things that matter is what
kind of projects you have done
do you have any special achievements
such as open source contribution or
let's say you are you have some special
rank on stack overflow things like that
so those kind of things are more
valuable than your certificates
now I agree some certificates in order
to
on that certificate you have to not only
watch the videos
of the tutorials but you have to finish
some assignments you have to
finish some code challenges and so on
so when I look at the certificate in the
Resume
what it shows is yes you have done all
the hard work
to finish that course you have done hard
work to finish the assignments
and after that you gained that
certificate.
But if you're saying that that
certificate is
going to get into your job that's
not true
there are so many learning institutes
who are claiming
about you know who have started this job
guarantee program
total bulls**t no one can guarantee your
job program.
No one can get into your job actually.
The only thing
that can get into your job is your own
muscle power you see this muscle.
Actually your brain power you know your
own performance during the interview.
That's what matters
certificates are there to show that you
have
completed that course you have done the
learning
but what matters for the company is how
much of that learning you have digested
and
how much of that you can use to solve
real life
problems. If you have not digested the
information if you
can't do analytical thinking around what
you have learned
there is no use, you know. It's like you
you you ate the food
but the food is not digested. So what's
the point?
So please be careful if you're planning
to spend a lot of money
in some certification program please do
your thorough research
and just just keep this thing in mind.
Certificates have very less value
in terms of you getting a job what
matters
more is your interview performance
how well you prepare your resume your
LinkedIn connection
your extracurricular activities, your
coding skills
math statistics skills things like that
you know
certificates and courses will help you
gain the knowledge but
in the end what will matter is how much
of that knowledge you have digested.
I don't have any certificate, I believe
in self learning mostly
by using free online resources there are
some people
who need hand holding and and it's okay
if you if you spend money. But like don't
spend too much money I mean that that's
the only thing I would say here.
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