How Certification Helps Technical People in Their Career?

Thanks to the digital evaluation which broken multiple boundaries in human life, the IT world, and the education system. We used to get degrees and certifications from very specific and granted universities or colleges in past. Nowadays, scenarios are completely changed. People can do degree courses or any specialized training or any certification sitting at home. It's standing in front of your door. Just mentally get prepare, get ready and pick the right one for your career and complete it successfully.

One caution point to highlight here is that picking the right one which will actually help in your career is a very important step in it.

Certification can help many ways to IT people. Here are the 9 reasons why & how ….

1.      Vendor Certification will take you to a level of learning:- When you are preparing for vendor certification, you have to prepare yourself on that skill to a level that will help you to pass or clear that vendor certification. It does not matter you are experienced or not. The certification content prepared in such a way that will automatically take it to that level. You can count it as personal and professional development.

 2.      Self Confidence: - Every Vendor certification has clearing or passing marks like 70% or 80%. When you are clearing or passing that certification exam, it will boost your confidence in that skill to face any situation

 3.      Building Credibility: - Statistically speaking, certificates will enhance your professional credibility. Your certificates will act as evidence of your skills and proficiency in your area of expertise

 4.      Marketing Yourself: - You are actually benchmarking yourself in a skill by doing that skill certification. Therefore, it always gives you better marketability for yourself within your company or outside market

 5.      Make yourself identifiable between others: - If anyone picks hundreds of Azured trained or experienced people and you are one of them. How can you make yourself different from others is definitely certification. If you are certified in Azure, then automatically you are one step ahead from others in your company or in customer interview or outside marker

 6.      Accessibility of better learning resources: - A lot of vendors give access to their latest learning portals or beta versions of software if you do their certifications. So definitely, it helps a technical person to be ahead of others by doing it

 7.      Better visibilities & growth chances within your company: - Your company might promote you to a new role or new project based on your certification. Also, during the appraisal phase or progression phase, it will value add in your credentials

 8.      Better Job opportunity: - Certification directly does value add in your portfolio or resume. Hiring managers or recruiters sometimes hire only certified people as per their management direction. If not mandatory also, still it will showcase your value, level, etc in the market.

 9.      Cost Justification of yours:- Certification can very well justify your cost to your new employer or customers. When you show them your certifications, actually you are helping them to think in your favor.

 What process you should follow to do a certification: -

1.      Decision or Selection of skill to certify:- It is very important that you first decide what is your areas of interest or what is a market trend or what skill can value add on top of your current skills.. Based on those, decided the right skill to certify

2.      Learning Process:- Most of the vendors are giving free learning nowadays. Always it is preferred that you first complete vendor learning sessions. Then Try Youtube, Udemay, or other learning portals

3.      Making hands dirty:- While learning or after learning, doing hands-on work in a learning environment is a must. It will clear your concept better way. Most of the vendors are giving a temporary learning cloud environment. E.g. Azure – You can create a free account. Or in Power BI, you can download the Power BI desktop for free from Microsoft Site.

4.      Getting ready for the real exam:- Once you are done with your study and confident with hands-on, please search in Google about sample Question sets. Try as many websites as many you can. Please don’t go with the answers given there. Please make sure you are preparing the answer of them from your learning materials.

5.      Book the exam with a debit/credit card or your corporate voucher and be confident. Just pass the exam. 

 Best Of Luck……

Remember: -

Certification is just a path that can make you visible. It is not mandatory to have.

“If a Robot can succeed without a Certificate. So can you. It's all about programming Reprogram your mindset.”