Advice needed for certifications

administr4tor

Hello guys, I ought to finish my degree in Jan 2016 in Computer science from a Canadian university, as I am browsing job portals and they all require previous work experience and/or certifications. So, Which certifications should I get in order to secure a Entry level job, I don't have any prior work experience in programming. Please tell me about popular certifications which are popular in industry now a days and are ought to remain popular/in demand for upcoming years. Please tell me if you have any more suggestions for me. Thank you

LeBroke

If you're doing computer science and can code in at least a moderately popular language, you're good if you want to work as a coder. Generally, programmers don't have certs. Instead, they build a portfolio (i.e. a list of open source projects they're working on, or things they're building for fun). Certs are for IT (i.e. infrastructure, networking, security) people.

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If you want to venture into cert-land, I'd start with the Microsoft certs or CompTIA certs. Relatively inexpensive and may give you a little more leverage than a similar recent grad w/o certs applying for the same job.

ypark

As far as programming certifications, I've seen many Oracle Java certifications but not much else. Depending on what you want to specialize in, you can do CIW or Microsoft (There are many programming related exams). I used to work as a proctor at a PearsonVue testing center until recently, so that's from seeing what exams are being taken by test takers.

Params7

If you're going for Comp Sci, I would just focus on doing well in the courses and utilizing the college's job portals to get a job or an internship. If you want to do something on the side, use online resources to learn more about your favorite programming language. Practice practice practice.

Certifications are usually for those who want to try and make it in Administrative side of IT (networking, servers, databases) but for any programming/development be it apps or web, you should just focus on being proficient with the language and having some kind of portfolio of things you've developed. Companies will then beg to hire you.

administr4tor

thanks for replies, I thought that there are certifications which makes job chances much better if you do it.
Ty

Verities

As everyone else in this thread stated there are only a few programming related certs and if you're going strictly that direction, you really don't need them. If you plan on becoming a programmer/sys admin/dev ops, then certifications can help you for the system side, complementing your programming language.