When you see your friends Posting their certificates or getting admitted to graduate schools, and are bombarded by training advertisements, you may feel a little anxious and wonder whether you should take some certificates or get a master’s degree.

  • The certificate consists of two stages: one is to participate in class study; Second, take certification exams.
  • Graduate study consists of a series of textual research. Admission, through learning to obtain admission qualification certificate; Process, through the study and examination of multiple courses to obtain the qualification certificate; Pass the graduation project to obtain the degree certificate.

What can you gain from taking a certificate or postgraduate entrance examination?

Acquire professional knowledge through study. Pass the exam to obtain the institution’s certification of your learning ability and professional knowledge, that is, the third party’s credit endorsement.

Compared with self-study, the certificate or postgraduate entrance examination sets a clear goal for you, that is, obtaining a certificate. Training classes or schools will also provide you with a better learning environment and atmosphere, as well as supporting periodic testing and other mechanisms to assist or restrict your learning. Unlike self-study, which is purely internally driven, self-control is not strong enough to give up easily.

When you lack confidence in self-control or intrinsic drive, it makes sense for you to systematically learn professional knowledge through research or graduate school. But is there value in the certificate itself, other than as an aid to learning? Certificates make sense to you if you have the following requirements:

Access qualification

There are barriers to entry for certain industries or jobs, like driving a car with a driver’s license. Often, these industries are not fully market-oriented, and monopolies have set qualification requirements. For example, to operate equipment from Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Huawei, etc., one must have a qualification certificate.

For example, the school must be in the 211 or 985 range, and the education must be bachelor’s or master’s degree or above. If you want to work in these companies, you must have the right degree or you won’t get an interview.

Veteran Brother once worked for a company that needed qualifications to bid outside, so it offered its employees the chance to apply for the project management expert PMP. If you pass the exam and get the certificate, the company will reimburse you for the certificate. Although the certificate is of little value to me, it makes me know more about project management.

Get credit endorsement

A career change or transition from one industry to another, especially if the span is large. In addition to systematically learning new expertise, you also need to obtain credit endorsement from third parties, otherwise it is difficult to gain customer trust. In order to enter the IT industry, I took the postgraduate examination of computer major.

Expand network resources

From personal excellence to team excellence, from internal excellence to external excellence, when you reach a certain stage in your career, you need to move from the inside to the outside, expand your network and expand your network. Educational institutions such as business schools focus on this area, and certificates merely provide a networking scenario.

In addition to the above scenarios, the main function of certificate examination or postgraduate study is to learn new knowledge and improve yourself. Certificates can only prove your professional knowledge and learning ability, but cannot change much. From the employer’s point of view, he is more interested in your practical ability, that is, the cost performance that helps him make money. Especially after working for many years, employers will not value your professional knowledge and learning ability represented by a certificate.

There are many ways to improve yourself, but after a certain age, relying on external constraints to drive yourself is already a failure. Prove yourself by credential only early in your career:

  • If you have a clear goal and plan to enter a big factory or work in a specific position, then you should take the exam. The certificate is the stepping stone. But do not deceive yourself, even if you have a certificate, you may not be able to enter a big factory or post.
  • Take an examination of after work, must take an examination of a good, have gold content, after all, you are to take an examination of after work, when apply for an employer will not put you as a new person to see, you will have higher requirements, life really cannot come again.
  • If you feel tired and have no sense of achievement and miss campus life, it is actually escapism and covers up the essence of poor self-control and inability to improve yourself. Even if you get a certificate, it will only become more and more difficult in the future.

Diplomas are most effective in the early stages of one’s career, and practical skills are more important later on.

In order to maintain an advantage in the fierce competition, the most critical thing is to make a good career plan, clarify personal value positioning and development direction, and then activate their internal driving force, apply knowledge and methodology to specific project practice, and prove their strength through the final output.

It’s important to repeat:

What matters most, for both yourself and your employer, is the ability to help others solve problems and create value (and money) so that you can reap the value that can lead to that promotion and more money.

Otherwise all false, both a waste of money and a waste of time, but also brush interview questions!

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