{"id":20701,"date":"2014-12-30T05:03:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:44:52","slug":"certifications-need-or-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/certifications-need-or-necessity\/","title":{"rendered":"Certifications: Need or Necessity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/certifications-need-or-necessity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20968\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/certifications-need-or-necessity-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"certifications-need-or-necessity\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/certifications-need-or-necessity-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/certifications-need-or-necessity-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/certifications-need-or-necessity-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/certifications-need-or-necessity.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You are a capable developer. You do the given job to your best capability, You deliver the projects on time.<\/p>\n<p>Why do u need a certification? When u look around you are you the only one who can do this job?<\/p>\n<p>NO!<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds and thousands of people who can do the same thing.&nbsp;They are chances that may do a better job. So what do you do to distinguish yourself from these people?<\/p>\n<p><strong>You get validated on your skills!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, what do you do? Can the company whose about too hire take the word of your&nbsp;colleague? Or listen to your friend? No!<\/p>\n<p>This is when a <strong>THIRD PARTY CERTIFICATION<\/strong> comes into the picture. This is some XYZ company that provides a method for validating the skills you possess. They evaluate you based on some pre-determined methods and in the method give a written consent that they vouch for your talent! So when an employer sees this he&#8217;s convinced that he&#8217;s hiring the right person for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Certifications are good and you need to decide the path you&#8217;re going to take for acquiring them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why its good is certified:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shows that the skills you&#8217;ve acquired are in trend!<\/li>\n<li>Says that you&#8217;ve taken an initiative to validate yourself<\/li>\n<li>Distinguishes you from your peers<\/li>\n<li>Instills confidence in the management that while moving towards a new technology that the staff is ready for implementing the change<\/li>\n<li>Provides you with personal satisfaction that youve mastered a new skill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now you&#8217;ve been certified on your skill. XYZ says you are good at Python, PHP etc. Now is that<strong> necessary<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see the arguments against being certified:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">Some people may have aced the test just because they are good at taking tests or memorizing certain facts.(Now that&#8217;s unfair!)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Nothing can replace your experience!<\/li>\n<li>Technology changes so fast that by the time you get certified on some time it might have been updated &nbsp;or replaced already!(Depends..i know people who still make a decent living working on COBOL(it was supposed to be dead by now!))<\/li>\n<li>Certifications are a revenue stream for &#8220;some&#8221;companies: Notice the emphasis on <strong>some.<\/strong> Look at VSkills its Govt. Certified so you&#8217;re good!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will always be people who are forgetting certified and people who are against it! It&#8217;s up to you to evaluate the merits and demerits.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think its time to get certified click&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/certifications\">Click here for government certifications <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You are a capable developer. You do the given job to your best capability, You deliver the projects on time. Why do u need a certification? When u look around you are you the only one who can do this job? NO! 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