15 years of IT experience at medium to large companies but never got any degrees or certs. “Born and raised on tech in the silicon valley” and aced interviews. Looking to add certs to my resume. Which ones are a waste and which ones are beneficial to have on your resume?
None of my carts have done me any good, I wish you better luck in your search!
I should really get around to getting my CCNP… it’s been my plan since 2002. I probably need to retake my CCNA, come to think of it.
But yeah, depends on your specific field, but the cisco certs are generally highly regarded.
In addition to what other commenters have said, A+ is easy enough to get, mostly focused on hardware and troubleshooting and if you’re looking at smaller-medium companies they tend to like that one.
I’m debating on whether to go down this career route.
Accountancy is a dud these days and I think I’d get more value from doing CompTIA or Cisco certificates and trying to branch out into IT.
Where I’m skeptical is that it’s being pushed a lot by all these learning providers advertising cybersecurity career paths and boasting potentially misleading statistics. I’ve heard from differing sources that IT is both easy and incredibly hard to get into.
But to answer the OG question, I’ve heard that Cisco CCNA is like the king of IT certifications, but is hard to pass and is expensive to both take and study.
30 years in IT here, but didn’t get my degree until about 13 years ago.
Certs that I have (obsolete or not).
CCNA/CCNP/ Network +
MCSE
CLP (most certainly obsolete. Who runs Domino any longer?)
LEAN Six Sigma Green belt.
ITIL v1 Foundation, Incident, Problem, Change, Config, Service Delivery.
V4 Foundation and Incident
Of all the certs it has been ITIL that has gotten me employed the most and why I’m currently employed as an Incident Management Process Owner for a very large manufacturer.
CompTIA Networking and LPI lvl 1 Linux.
