Where do you keep your certifications?

brfitzp

So like many people here, i've racked up quite a few certifications and plan to keep studying and earn some higher level ones in the future. I currently have them all in a folder in a drawer alone with my score reports.

I was considering getting a nice book with clear sleeve to put them in but i'm not sure which would be best.

What does everyone else do with their certs?

Lexluethar

Most are in a folder where we file stuff. The important ones that took a lot to pass (MCSA and VCP) are framed in my office along with my BS degree.

Lexluethar

Home office*

OctalDump

There's been similar threads in the past. Currently I have most of mine, similar to you, collected up in an old bag. I have a couple framed, sitting on the back of a shelf.

From the last threads I read, it varies from people who throw them out (since they are verifiable online anyway) through to people who frame them all and keep them in a trophy room to provide inspiration, and people who frame them and keep them on the wall at their workplace.

In this part of the world it isn't unusual for other professionals to put degrees and professional associations on their office walls, but is unusual in the IT world. I think part of this is that there has historically been a lot of under/un-qualified IT people who wouldn't have much to put on their walls. Some of these people are still in senior positions so might find it threatening maybe, or maybe IT just hasn't had a chance to develop its professional culture and traditions.

But to each their own.

cs8400

In a box

thomas_

I have a hanging binder with protective sheets that I keep them in along with other documents. I also have a pdf copy on my computer for when I need to email or print out, should the need arise.

Ritual

Framed sitting in a home office because why not.

doctorlexus

Framed, and hanging around my neck, Flavor Flav style.

cyberguypr

GIAC's and CISSP at the office. Others in a drawer. CEH and CHFI in the bathroom in case paper runs out.

TheFORCE

cyberguypr wrote: »

GIAC's and CISSP at the office. Others in a drawer. CEH and CHFI in the bathroom in case paper runs out.

Lol poor CEH

Christian.

I bought a silver aluminum briefcase to store important documents, so I ended up putting my certs there too.

byron66

Framed in my trophy room right next to my football trophies.

TheFORCE

My degree, CISSP and CCSP are framed in my study room. Thinking of getting a copy to work also. Anyone tried copying them? Do they come out nice?

Danielm7

Folder in a box of files in my home office. I'm not really much of the framing / hanging up awards type.

bermovick

Mine are all in a binder.... somewhere, except for the few recent ones I got through WGU, which are lying in a pile of other papers on my server box, until I get around to finding said binder.

tpatt100

Mine are all in a binder in the closet of my home office, the GIAC I got came on a nice plaque, that's in the closet behind some stuff. I stopped hanging them years ago.

ITSpectre

Mine are in frames hanging on my wall at home. I plan to frame my higher level certs when I get them and put them up at the office and at home.

joelsfood

certifications and score reports are in a hanging file in my file cabinet.

CCIE plaque is on my wall over my desk.

E Double U

Samuel Jackson keeps them in a briefcase for me.

scaredoftests

close to my heart. Seriously, in a folder on my home computer and also at work.

markulous

I don't have any paper copies of them. There are some not worth keeping (*cough*CIW*cough*), but I don't see a reason to keep them right now. Maybe with a high-level cert, but I usually just toss them since they can be verified online.

DoubleNNs

In a dark drawer in my parent's house, something like 500 miles away.

At one point in time I carried my A+ cert card with me min my wallet. But after a month of that, I realized there was absolutely no point haha

ITSpectre

DoubleNNs wrote: »

In a dark drawer in my parent's house, something like 500 miles away.

At one point in time I carried my A+ cert card with me min my wallet. But after a month of that, I realized there was absolutely no point haha

I carry my Sec+ card with me with my work badge. Makes me feel all warm and tingly inside

thomas_

cyberguypr wrote: »

GIAC's and CISSP at the office. Others in a drawer. CEH and CHFI in the bathroom in case paper runs out.

This got me thinking...regular paper is pretty rough on the skin, so what if there was a printer that could print on paper towels(i thought toilet paper was a stretch.) I didn't find a printer, but then I came across custom printed paper towels. After finding that, I thought surely someone must have custom printed toilet paper and I found:

Custom Printed Toilet Paper Rolls

I'm not sure if they'll accept certificates for printing due to copyright/trademark issues. It would be awesome if they did. What better to show your distaste for your certificates. I have a University diploma I might have to look into seeing if they will custom print or not. I might have to pick up some of their political custom printed toilet paper.

cyberguypr

Beautiful idea. Although $12 per roll + setup fees is too thick for my blood.

reload@

Underneath my pillow. I kiss them goodnight before I go to sleep.

renacido

Old or irrelevant ones are in a box of other documents. My highly relevant ones to my job are framed hanging in my office, because that's why the certificates exist.

wolfinsheepsclothing

PDFs in an email haha

ITSpectre

reload@ wrote: »

Underneath my pillow. I kiss them goodnight before I go to sleep.

I hold mine close to me at night....they help me sleep

jamesleecoleman

I've been thinking about it but no one really cares and I'm not the show off what I got type. I do need to kinda bring life to the office, I haven't done anything to it (posters, minions or other fun stuff....) for almost two years.

DatabaseHead

Honestly - I have no idea.