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What is the value of IT certifications such as SCJP, MCSE,Oracle 9i etc ?
Uday Ogra
http://www.freewebs.com/certifications/
Ahhhhhhh!!!! Thats perhaps one of the most toughest questions.But views may differ from people to people.But if you would ask me to give the answer in a single line I would say "These certifications are not having that much worth in the market as they deserve to be".
Taking the example of SUN certifications we know every second guy in this domain is SCJP certified.So we have plethora of SCJP certified professional around us.So that obviously degrades the value of this certification but if we go beyond this certification the scenario is almost opposite.How many guys around us are say SCBCD,SCDJWS or SCEA certified.I would say negligible. There is such a scarcity of these certified people that industry doesnt even look for them.Infact I have seen many recruiters who dont even know what all these certifications(except SCJP) are all about.For example when I gave my last interview in Huawei tech the guy asked me "Hey dude what is SCWCD etc....what is it all about......and who conducts them".Ahhh I was increasing his general knowledge.
But ya he was very impressed by my certification list.It was like impressing an illiterate by talking in english with him :).Anyways based on my experience of giving SUN certifications I have developed some statistics which will show what % of certified people goes for a particular SUN certification.Say if in a particular timespan there are 1000 SCJPcertified persons than following will be the most likely distribution:
Certification name Number of certified guys
SCJP 1000
SCJA 10
SCWCD 310
SCBCD 120
SCDJWS 30
SCEA 150
And if we consider all the companies who provide all these certifications I would say MICROSOFT is the biggest hitfollowed by ORACLE and CISCO in terms of number of people giving their certifications. Say within a particular time frame 1000 guys went for MICROSOFT CERTIFICATION,than how many went for others:
CERTIFICATIONS NAME Number of guys going for it
MICROSOFT 1000
CISCO 250
ORACLE 225
SUN 212
IBM 125
SAS 85
COMPTIA 70
HP 33
LPI 30
TERADATA 26
SYBASE 24
VMWARE 23
LOTUS 21
JUNIPER 20
CITRIX 19
RED HAT 18
CHECKPOINT 13
NORTEL 12
SYMANTEC 12
TIBCO 10
NOVELL 10
NOKIA 9
DELL 6
APPLE 4
Surprised to see so many certifications na.Ya its a business now.Certifications are the way of generating huge revenues.Even I was surprised when I saw even APPLE and DELL conducts certifications.I wonder what would be APPLE certification all about.May be listening to itunes on ipod :)
Article submitted Friday, June 20, 2008
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