| Topic Name: |
IT Certifications |
| Message Name: |
IT certs again |
| Date Posted: |
06/27/2003 |
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You are a law school graduate. You have several years of "hobby" experience programming in c/asm. You want a job in "consulting" and want to know how to represent your "hobby" software development experience on your resume.
Correct so far?
The next question is, why do you want to convey this experience if you are not interested in doing programming work? Let me guess, you want to become a "strategic" technology consultant. Good luck. The market is flooded with ex-CIOs and folks with 20+ years of technology and management consulting experience. No one wants technology advice from a lawyer with a couple years of hobby computer experience. I'm not trying to be a prick here, but I think a lot of recent JD and MBA grads are in need of a significant resetting of expectations. |
| Message: |
Quoting from my message dating 06/14/03
"My programming experience has helped me alot in training my analytical skills, my mathematical and quantitative skills. Being able to display this with a certificate for instance could possibly be an asset for me-- thats why I'm looking into it."
I am not asking for judgement on my career goals.
I am simply asking if anyone knows any interesting IT certificates that could make a good one-liner in a CV expressing the above sought analytical qualities and involving knowledge of mathematical algorithms and other coding related experience.
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