Hi, You have to be very careful with certifications as they can become very easily devalued and then you could be tarred with the same brush.
For example, my employee, a database vendor expects all their employees to go for the certifications for their products, however I see on a daily basis people who have no experience or technical skills that have the certifications and many have the highest level of certification (6 exams), just so they are seen as being an expert. I have not looked in depth at the Ruby exam, but if it is multiple choice question based or relatively simple, then I would say only use it as training material, as it will get abused as the technology becomes ever more popular and salaries start to increase for the top coders. Apologies if this sound cynical, but thats my experience of certifications. Nothing will beat real experience, reference code / sites, etc. Get your github account setup and start hacking. ;-) Regards Matthew Winter On 09/09/2009, at 11:53 AM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Hi ruby experts, > > I saw there is a ruby certification ( > http://www.ruby-assn.org/en/certification.htm > ) which seems to be fairly popular in Japan. And it seems to be > quite reliable too since Matz also sits on the board of members. I'm > still new to Ruby and want to have a career in the Ruby and Rails > world. As an employer or HR dude, would you take someone that has > this certification as a consideration to work at your company? > Please share your insights. > > Kind regards, > > -- > http://blog.scrum8.com > http://twitter.com/scrum8 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
