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Career Planning - It's all about Attitude!

Certifications are popular and flexible, without the entry restrictions placed by formal education. Since they are work-based, certifications open roads to enhanced practical skills and complement formal education.

Industry recognition (local and foreign) certainly helps in opening doors to IT practitioner opportunities for many without the formal educational background in ICT. But we must keep perspective. Certification cannot give you what you don't have. You gain nothing by short-circuiting the learning process. A menace in the certification world is the desperate rush to cram to pass certification exams. This "paper certification" syndrome is reflective of “education-means-certificate-meal ticket” mentality which can also be found in the formal education sector. The need to focus on contribution cannot be overemphasized; otherwise we are just playing a game of self deceit. Your certification has no value if you can’t contribute.

Unlike formal education courses certification makes very little provision for the development of non tech skills. Certification’s focus is specific technical skills.  But you need to have the right professional and business attitude.

So if certification is your choice make sure you invest in professionalism and soft skills (ability to market yourself, communications, presentation, teamwork, business, leadership, etc). Certification doesn’t teach you ethics. But you can’t get far in IT without Ethics and Professionalism.