would certificate help me get my first job?

[srinivas sridaragaddi]

Hi i am srinivas i am a fresh MCA graduate.I am preparing for SCJP cert and will be taking up exam in oct. I am searching for a job and i think SCJP certificate will open many doors for me.

Please tell me whether i am thinking right? or certification would'nt help me to land in my dream job

Thanks in advance

[Shoumin Li]

I think the experience is more important than a certificate.
You can attend some open-source project ,or some others project will accept a fresh man ,and get some experience from it.
I get my first jobe by my game demo after I attended a project.

[Theodore Casser]

It all depends on the competition for the position. I don't think that a certification alone will open doors for you, but it might help you stand out among candidates of equal quality as another little plus in your favor.

[Jignesh Patel]

Let's take this way:

Does, MCA degree help you to get a job?

[arulk pillai]

Certification may help you increase your confidence and get an interview but you need to have some hands on experience and good knowledge or familiarity with the core concepts/emerging technologies to open doors for you. Certification is academic.

[NDP Prasad]

I would suggest you to concentrate on the APti and SoftKills stuffs and just small project in Java with knowledge in the same is enough to get the Job.
Certification will take some time to prepare...and also it is valuable only if you do so..not just to get the job.

[ravi janap]

Hi

If you are preparing for job interviews then I don't think certification will help you in any way other than clearing the first round of technical interview where you are given a number of multiple choice questions to be completed in certain time. My suggestion to you is to focus more on subject matter. Certification is purely academic and it is no way comparable to real time job experience. You can get yourself certified once you have landed in your dream job.

Thanks
Ravi

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

I really do not think that certification would help you in fetching a job (assuming you are in India), though you might be more confident while facing questions in interview.

If some company hires a fresh graduate or a fresh post graduate then it doesn't expect java , rather they ask something very generic like datastructures , some simple algorithms ,they will check your analytical and communication skills and lots of questions from project that you have done at your university.

I would not discourage to give this exam , its good to have anyways.

[ July 27, 2007: Message edited by: Rahul Bhattacharjee ]