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    Which is the best certification that helps you to boost your career?

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      Probably none of them. No one certification will do that: we have no idea what direction your career is supposed to be heading, and a certification is normally in a pretty narrow field - so unless your career is extremely specialized, you will probably want several.

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        Take a look at edX: https://www.slant.co/topics/18305/~educational-websites[^] These are courses offered by universities like MIT and Harvard that you mostly can follow for free, only the certificate needs to be paid.

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          A "degree" comes to mind. You can get one after three to five years of college. Highly recommended. After that, it's really a matter of "it depends". If you're doing Java, a C# certificate will probably do you little good. If you're doing Azure, you can skip the AWS certificates. In my experience, employers ask for Microsoft, AWS, Google and Scrum certificates, so they should help you. Make sure you get the official ones though, a Udemy certificate of completion or a W3 Schools certificate won't do you much good.

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            Take a look at those listed here - Professional Certificate Training Programs - Grow with Google[^]

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              it's impossible to answer without more details. anecdotal, I'm 50 and I have no certification and my career is good, and no one ever mention them.

              I'd rather be phishing!

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                Probably none of them. No one certification will do that: we have no idea what direction your career is supposed to be heading, and a certification is normally in a pretty narrow field - so unless your career is extremely specialized, you will probably want several.

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                OriginalGriff wrote:

                a certification is normally in a pretty narrow field - so unless your career is extremely specialized, you will probably want several

                Just getting the AZ-204 (formerly AZ-203, Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure) could really help getting you hired with a company that's doing Azure or looking into it. Of course, also getting AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) and/or AZ-303/304 (Azure Solutions Architect) can greatly improve your chances, but I'd say AZ-204 alone should be enough to give you an edge in most companies :) No doubt this also goes for a lot of other technologies. I have AZ-103, AZ-203, AZ-300 and AZ-301, all of which will expire somewhere this year and be replaced with new ones :( Not that Azure changed that much, it's just a great business model for M$ :sigh:

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                  In my experience, the only thing that I have found to boost one's career is being in the right place at the right time - on top of hard work and diligence. But, if you want to send me $300, I can reveal many ancient and mystical secrets that will make you rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams.

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                    You can go for Salesforce training where you can learn about administrations, app builder skills like customizing the Salesforce platform, building applications through Salesforce lightning, managing users, etc. Salesforce is a customer relationship management solution that brings companies and customers together. It's one integrated CRM platform that gives all your departments — including marketing, sales, commerce, and service — a single, shared view of every customer. Benefits of Salesforce CRM platforms. Trustworthy reporting Dashboards that visually showcase data Improved messaging with automation Proactive service Efficiency enhanced by automation Simplified collaboration

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                      You can go for Salesforce training where you can learn about administrations, app builder skills like customizing the Salesforce platform, building applications through Salesforce lightning, managing users, etc. Salesforce is a customer relationship management solution that brings companies and customers together. It's one integrated CRM platform that gives all your departments — including marketing, sales, commerce, and service — a single, shared view of every customer. Benefits of Salesforce CRM platforms. Trustworthy reporting Dashboards that visually showcase data Improved messaging with automation Proactive service Efficiency enhanced by automation Simplified collaboration

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                        In my experience, the only thing that I have found to boost one's career is being in the right place at the right time - on top of hard work and diligence. But, if you want to send me $300, I can reveal many ancient and mystical secrets that will make you rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams.

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                        If you send me your bank details (including password) I will deposit the $300 quite soon.

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                          Probably the one the company you work for, or want to work for requires. I'm switching jobs and have to do some MS certs because they require it for their MS partnership.

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                            Experience.

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                              In my experience, the only thing that I have found to boost one's career is being in the right place at the right time - on top of hard work and diligence. But, if you want to send me $300, I can reveal many ancient and mystical secrets that will make you rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams.

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                              Another thing that makes me go "HMM!!!" :laugh:

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                                In my experience, the only thing that I have found to boost one's career is being in the right place at the right time - on top of hard work and diligence. But, if you want to send me $300, I can reveal many ancient and mystical secrets that will make you rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams.

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                                Slacker007 wrote:

                                ancient and mystical secrets that will make you rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams

                                ...in $300 increments.

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                                  IMNSHO the certs are all BS, and I'd only bring them up if asked. Otherwise (if I'm the one interviewing an applicant) you come across as someone who's drunk the Kool-Aid and are just too eager to play that dumb game. Depending on who you're talking to, you don't want to show you're buying into the BS.

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                                    It might be making use of an idiom ( USA/English ) but all in all, the best certification is that you are not "certifiable".

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                                      Mango Mind wrote:

                                      Which is the best certification that helps you to boost your career?

                                      "Experience" working in your field.

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                                        Anything that HR lists on the job posting. Seriously, certifications generally are only useful to get past HR and to the actual hiring manager.

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                                          In 47 years, interviewing thousands, hiring many hundreds, managing large and small projects and teams, I never considered certs in the process. Never. Not once. I have gotten certs, and I have paid teams to get certified in something specific (like Windows NT, when it was new; Java, when it was new; AWS, when it was new). But, I never told HR, and I never looked at resumes, to see if someone had a particular cert. The work they did, their experience, told me they were "certified".

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