Computer Certifications for Not Yet Techies 2

"Computer Careers: What High Tech Jobs are They Good For?"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

There are advantages and disadvantages to both major computer certifications. If you want a networking job with a company that uses Novell Netware, you better have a CNE instead of an MCSE. Of course it's even better to have both computer certifications

If you have a platform-independent computer certification, in theory you can go anywhere. But a company with Novell Netware will still want a CNE.

In some areas, such as computer programming, computer certifications are still very new. Most programmers, no matter how successful, are not certified.

Sun Microsystems, which puts out the Java language, does have two highly regarded computer certifications for Java. Getting certified by Sun is a good career move for Java programmers, but not essential.

What about going back to college for a computer science degree instead of getting computer certifications?

If you are 17-23 and you want to start a 4 year college program in computer science, yes, do so. However, don't expect to learn all you need to learn in your college classes. Colleges are fast falling behind the new technologies and versions of software coming out. Colleges take too long to change their curriculums and hire good teachers in response to new info-tech developments.

Just think of the people who started college in 1994. They'd never heard of the Internet, but by the time they graduated in 1998, potential employers expected them to know HTML and JavaScript and be able to design web pages. Chances are good they had few to none college classes in those subjects.

If you have a job, a family etc. and you'd have to go to college part time, it would take you even longer. And by the time you finally did graduate, many of the technologies you learned would be that much more behind the times.

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