Hey all, I’m back with another question to pick your brains with.
I have recently completed a Coding Bootcamp that provided me with a Diploma of IT - that focused on the realm of Code, Cloud and Cybersecurity. (Basically Python, HTML&CSS, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)

I understand there are many pathways into Tech/IT and with that, there are many certifications.

What would you consider certifications that are fantastic to show baseline knowledge and understanding? Some that would really help solidify and prove my knowledge/even upskill me from where I am.

Would anyone recommend the CompTIA certifications?

Then continuing on from base knowledge - which are some certs that you have completed and really felt fulfilled/proved that you solidly understand some area/aspect of tech after completing.

Also, have they helped with employability in your realm?

I completely agree with @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org here 👌 Having “certificates” or “showing them off” is worthless. I for example as a Lead SRE and currently hiring actually tend to dismiss outright any CV that has them. I either ignore them or it taints my impression of them 😢 (I know I shouldn’t do this, becuase biases are bad, but I do anyway).

As @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org said learning is a good thing. We must always learn. But learning without doing is also pointless IHMO. It’s one thing to learn X, but another to do X.

This is called “practical experience”.

I always tell all my candidates that interview, go out and learn this stuff, practise, it, tinker, hack and experiment.

That’s my $0.02 worth 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I feel that on so many levels, and I appreciate the honesty. I feel as though the level of which the diploma taught me things - I already had most of it by being proactive and learning in my personal time.

The only reason I finished it was to a lleast have one piece of paper saying that I’m semi capable in tech, lol. Because it’s a bit rough trying to break into the industry when I just have medical/nursing degrees and certificates.

I do understand that having a collection of certificates can look bag, as it makes you look like more of an achievement hunter than anything.

I do have a question for both you and more so @prologic@twtxt.net, when looking at candidates - if you’re not looking at certificates per say. Are you more so looking how the person represents themselves before moving on to a technical/role specific interview?

But thanks to you both for your replies, it helps a lot! :)

lol guys im loving this because im tryna career change from science to “tech”. i aint tryna get a cert, just need to get hired lel

I too don’t have any kind of certification, yet I’m the lead developer in my company.

Half a year ago we had to hire a junior developer and when interviewing the candidates some of them had lot of paper to show but no experience or real interest at all, in the end we picked that one guy who just did some simple experiments on its own and didn’t even know how to code in the beginning.

For me what really matters is the curiosity and will to learn.✌️