I’m lookijg into some courses, I know I can get most of them for free but I was thinking about certification too, is it worthy? Does someone cares about coursers certifications from coursers?
It’s a thing because my income is not in dolar so it gets more expensive to me
Once you get your first job, the certs of all kinds just become resume fluff, but since you are pursuing your first job, they might be useful.
As an interviewer, I think that certs are only useful if you take the test with a different company than you studied with. So I don’t think I’d care if you have a coursera cert, because I’d assume it just meant you finished the course that you paid for.
What certs are you thinking about doing, and more importantly, what are you looking to get out of them? I know “a job”, but what kind of job are you looking for?
I already work, I just want to go to tech field, mostly and stuff, I’m studying some stuff and making some projects
What tech field though? Software? Cloud? AI/ML? Security?
As an interviewer, I think that certs are only useful if you take the test with a different company than you studied with. So I don’t think I’d care if you have a coursera cert, because I’d assume it just meant you finished the course that you paid for.
It’s worth noting that some coursera courses are created and maintained by actually accredited institutions, and some courses qualify as college credit with ACE accreditation. Also, many tech certifications host their courses on coursera too, like microsoft has official azure cert courses on there.
That doesn’t necessarily mean anything for any given random cert, though, because that means that the entire site is a pretty big grab bag in terms of the usefulness of their certs.
In all those scenarios though, the cert in question would be listed as something else. It’s not that I’m against Coursera or think it’s a bad platform.
There are a lot of certs out there and most of them are worthless, and a lot of them happen to be on Coursera, I guess. I’ve talked to people who had AWS certs and couldn’t explain the difference between S3 and EBS. Certs just don’t mean much.
Worth it, as in will it help you get a job?
I think that answer would be dependent on your local work culture and what sort of jobs you’re applying for. I could see it possibly helping to get an entry-level job where I am, but would not be a substitute for any sort of school degree.
Kinda, getting into tech field, I’m already doing collage so yeah, it’s just to be an extra on my resume, mostly I’m trying to learn just to learn, but sometimes it’s useful a certification right?
I think some companies here will only care if the certification is from some knowed company, like Google, IBM, Microsoft etc
Personally, I would not bother with Coursera in your situation. If you are already going to college, I would focus on that. Get internships or apprenticeships if that is something students in your area do. Join school clubs and projects related to your field of study. Get good grades. Go to your teacher’s open office hours for help and to get to know them; they could be a great network for finding future jobs.
Yeah I see but like my collage is not that good, I like to learn stuff and keep going, is too traditional you know
If you just want to learn for the sake of learning, sure, it’s a fine approach. You will probably find some Coursera classes are better than others.
If your interview shows promises, then I think the cert gives the employer confidence in your ability.
