I got mine along Shimano's reasoning. I can't say for sure it's ever made the difference, but I suspect it's helped a couple of times. Costs about £500 to get through, so if there's a 10% chance it gets you a £50,000 contract it's probably worth doing.
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MCSD .Net - C# track. Mostly paid for while in permiedome for a brief period... seems to get me noticed. I dont have a degree (and after this long it would be irrelevant anyway) so I make a get of doing the certs.Vieze Oude Man
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Just making myself depressed looking at the number of .NET jobs on jobserve today (187) vs. the number of MFC jobs (12). Might be time to do some learning.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Any decent .Net role will typically be looking for 3 years+ (normally c# but some finance companies are going the VB.Net route), by now... go for .Net 2 if you are going to try.Vieze Oude Man
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nice one lads,
that's the spirit, get into .Net
plenty of room for everyone on the (toot)(toot) .Net gravy train
Milan.Comment
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I wrote a VB.net application to do my ironing every morning. See, there's no end to the wondrousness of .net.
O, great Lord Sir William Gates, I bow down to thee sir.
Toot toot...
If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.Comment
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Generally we know cert's mean nothing except the person can possible cram and pass some tests
Agencys and clients on the other hand.....
So if you can do it without going on expensive training courses, go for it. £500 odd is small price to pay any type of possible improvement in getting contracts.Comment
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Morning 'Benes. I'm fine, still dreaming - this time about .NET (it's so good you see).
How's teh Czech pad coming along?Comment
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