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- From: mab22@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael A. Balfour)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: The Value of Certification?
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 00:20:16 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Message-ID: <4ikuk0$sav@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: mab22@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael A. Balfour)
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- Dear working community,
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- It would seem that there are many options available to software
- engineers to become professionally certified. There is always the
- Professional Engineer examinations, as well as a battery of other
- certification boards (or at least a few).
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- My question is: What's the value in it?
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- Does anybody pay attention if this is on a resume? No states seem to
- require certification, so there's no inherent legal value. Is it just
- another dubious achievement to be proud of, or is there some sort of
- real significance to being "professionally certified"?
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- If there IS any value to it, what are the most reputable sources of
- certification?
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- Please share any positive and negative experiences. I've toyed with the
- notion of being a Professionally Certified C Software Engineer, but I
- just can't find any benefits (other than the extra few seconds of small
- talk at cocktail parties).
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- Thanks,
-
- Mike Balfour
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- Mike Balfour, Partner | BS/MS Graduate - ECMP
- Overload Engineering | Case Western Reserve University
- "New Ideas for a Brighter Future" | Cleveland, OH
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