15 years of IT experience at medium to large companies but never got any degrees or certs. “Born and raised on tech in the silicon valley” and aced interviews. Looking to add certs to my resume. Which ones are a waste and which ones are beneficial to have on your resume?
I’m debating on whether to go down this career route.
Accountancy is a dud these days and I think I’d get more value from doing CompTIA or Cisco certificates and trying to branch out into IT.
Where I’m skeptical is that it’s being pushed a lot by all these learning providers advertising cybersecurity career paths and boasting potentially misleading statistics. I’ve heard from differing sources that IT is both easy and incredibly hard to get into.
But to answer the OG question, I’ve heard that Cisco CCNA is like the king of IT certifications, but is hard to pass and is expensive to both take and study.
CCNA maybe early 2000s. Anecdotally, I have friends that passed CCNA but couldn’t break into IT.