yoba222 wrote: » That is interesting. I personally have the impression that having Coursera on a resume isn't something anyone would ever take seriously, but then that's just me. I suppose other than the A+, there aren't many other alternatives aside from some expensive trade school or college certificate on the entry level end. Edit: So it's $50 a month for 8-12 months. This costs $400-600.
satam55 wrote: » Would this cert be worthless to someone who has an A+?
J_86 wrote: » Looking at the course descriptions, I would say it appears to go much deeper then the A+. Might be some overlap with the A+, but if you are looking for entry level looks like some good content from reading the descriptions.
Daneil3144 wrote: » That's great that you guys think it's fantastic - but what the average HR person, will this hold any weight in an interview?
Daneil3144 wrote: » Good strategy on their part: flood the market with more credentialed (but not qualified) candidates and drive down the price.It’s like these big names are effectively creating a “minimum wage worker group“ for the IT industry. Instead of raising wages for competent help
DatabaseHead wrote: » +1 Chris In regards to the cost, I went ahead and signed up for 7 days and powered through one of the certifications and ended up completing it and getting the cert before my trial was over. I removed my CC and never got charged..... Just saying if you are tight on money or just cheap like me, then it's worth a look.
Cameron M wrote: » I wasn't really interested in this certification til I read this. If I can power through it in a week for free... might as well give see what's it's all about. I don't know how far it would help me in my career right now, but I'm assuming it will likely just be a refresher of some of the things I learned when I took the A+, N+, and S+.
DoubleD wrote: » I think this guy sums it all up in this from 1.20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PupBs57tGc&t=70s
josephandre wrote: » I disagree with almost 90% of what this guy said, outside of the paper tiger syndrome.
DoubleD wrote: » why? ? ?
DoubleD wrote: » CompTIAs are vendor neutral I don't know what the Google one is like but I wonder if it based around Google only products?
Danielm7 wrote: » Because it's the same old whining about how certs != knowledge and money, we all know that, but he's got the old vendetta from "25-30 years ago" where he's still bitter that someone was paid more than him for having a cert. Outside of the the rest of the idea that a Google based support training program must be garbage because if he puts in a support ticket for his free service of Youtube or gmail, he gets an automated response... of course you do. Can anyone imagine if the first round of support from a free service that probably hundreds of millions of people use was an in-depth personal reply? Can you see that service being free for long? If you want decent support, pay for it. He's even going on that no one needs to know how to use Google apps and no jobs ever require that, which is completely untrue. Walk into a any large university system and tell me the person who is the admin for a google apps setup for 10s of thousands of people is the person who has "gmail experience". I'm sorry but the idea that the people who are doing a form letter being the same people who actually provide training is silly. I have no skin in the game here as I've never done this program and I haven't done direct support in forever but this isn't a program to learn google skills, it's a support training program. He keeps calling the google program a "bait and switch" which makes zero sense. Instead he suggests lynda.com and itpro.tv, neither of which are free and the itpro subscription is even more expensive than the google pricing monthly. I wish I had my 10 minutes back, not sure why anyone would listen to this guy.
