Hi Thanks for your reply. I was kind of thinking the same thing as you and a wee bit investigation revealed not a lot. I am indeed in the UK (Scotland) and have a degree in Computer Science from way back :-)
You may be right about the portfolio and keeping up to date but some way to qualify this might be nice. I have not checked on the MS Cert's recently but last time I did look they were based on MS products. E. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Leslie Sent: 20 June 2007 14:06 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Certifications / Exams / Accreditations / Qualifications I was wondering If anyone could suggest any credible certifications, exams, qualifications etc. in: * Web Standards * Accessibility * SEO * Site Building / Design * etc. That would be worthwhile taking/having on my CV as well as being useful from a learning point of view. I have an old MCP+SB from a few years ago but it's all changed now :-) ------------------------ Hi, I noticed that you are based in the UK, and to be honest, there aren't really any certificates that count for anything here, aside from possibly a degree/masters in Computer Science or similar. I changed career about 4 years ago to web design after playing around with it for a couple of years as a hobby and was looking for courses as you describe. The only thing I really found was CIW (certified internet webmaster) courses, which I duly took. They were pretty basic and only covered stuff I could have got from half a £10 book. I then found that I had to explain what these 'qualifications' were at every job interview I had... No-one had heard of them. On a positive note, I guess they improved my confidence towards my work. >From personal experience, I found that the UK market is pretty keen on accessibility and standards so I worked hard at trying to understand these areas and building up a decent portfolio. A portfolio is much more important than a CV nowadays. I am now involved in our recruitment process and tend to be much more interested in whether candidates read lists such as this one, read/write blogs, go to conferences, etc than if they have a degree or other certificate. The web moves so quickly that what is relevant now may be irrelevant in a years time (tabindex and accesskeys being 2 things that pop to the front of my mind as fairly recent examples of this phenomenon). Hope that helps James ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
