what they want...

[John Whitfield]

> I had contemplated getting Sun's Java 
> certification and/or the LPI certification, but 
> one of my headhunters told me it wasn't worth the
> cost; there are so many people out there with 
> those certificates that employers don't pay 
> attention to them.  In this market, experience is
> about the only thing that counts.

Not exactly.  Keep in mind that the one thing the employer really wants is assurance that the person being hired can do the job.  Experience counts more than a cert, but a cert is better than nothing.  If you're fresh out of college or changing your career path, adding a cert will not move you ahead of those with years of experience, but it will give you a leg up on someone else with the same credentials but no cert.

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