I dont think its so much the company that cares about the cert. As a manager that hires developers, and with my knowledge of CF certs I dont add much (if any) weight to the fact they may/not have one.
As a manager working with a team building a recruitment enterprise app I can say that the systems used to rank candidates automatically in to a shortlist DO bear weight to those kinds of things. This is configurable stuff for agencies and recruiters, but the fact is - if you have a cert over someone without then the ranking engine is probably gonna put you above the next guy. This could mean the difference between shortlist & interview, or the dole queue. Just my 2c on the inside world of recruitment agents. On 4/28/06, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Michael Traher. I got certification and as part of the > study process I had to dig in to lots of areas of ColdFusion that my > development on real sites hadnt taken me until that point. > > For example until that point I'd had no reason to have anything to do > with LDAP, so i'd just skipped over that stuff in anything I'd read. > After studying for the exam, I still wasnt an expert in LDAP, but i > knew enough about it to understand how it relates to ColdFusion, > enough to be able to work my way through it if I came upon it in real > life. > > As a result of studying for the exam, I didnt learn much about > application architecture, OOP, validation, workflow or any of a number > of disciplines relating to applicatoin development, so it's not the > be-all and end-all, but after studying for the exam, I know a LOT more > about ColdFusion than I did before, and my advanced certification > verifies it. It's not a guarantee by itself that i can handle any > programming task thrown at me, but it does verify that I know about > most of the nooks and crannies of the ColdFusion product. > > In practice, I dont know if certification has got me any more work > (which was my original hope when i signed up for it ) but I know I'm > better at using ColdFusion as a result of studying for it. > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > > On 4/28/06, Michael Traher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with Christophe. > > > > What the studying for the certificate does do is force you to look at the > > whole CF product, every tag and function. I think there is value in that > > process as it broadens your knowledge. > > > > In addition it makes you more precise since the questions are annoyingly > > finicky, so you have to bother (at least while you study) to know the little > > details. > > > > For these reasons I encourage our developers to take the test. > > > > Certainly I agree it does not signify how skilled a developer you are, or > > whether you will be an asset to a team or not since these are more complex > > issues, that can not be tested by a few multiple questions. :-) > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239026 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
