Certifications - Thoughts?

[JD Austin IV]

I also applied at Insight, and also have the Brainbench PHP master
certification.  They never returned my employment agency's calls (who
called them several times a week for 3 weeks).
I guess its still all about who you know :)
Oh, if the hiring managers at insight read this..
THANKS for wasting my time... and $20(! :)
At least I took the test before they raised the price to $49.  I took a few
more of their free tests so my Brainbench transcript would have more than
PHP master certification, but I wouldn't waste my money on another test
unless I was sure employers really saw some value in it.
I personally don't think they hold the same weight as a regular
certification, though I could be wrong.

JD

> Anyone answering Insight to that question should be connected to a
> polygraph.  They claim to want people with the Brainbench PHP
> certification.  I have the master level, and they still didn't want to
> talk to me.  (Maybe they managed to connect my smart alec screen name
> with my real life name. [g])
>
> Carl Parrish wrote:
>>
>> Well they're cheap. What I would like to know if is anyone has ever
>> gotten a job because of a brainbench cert?
>>
>> Carl Parrish
>>
>> On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 06:31, Dr. G wrote:
>> > What are those? Heh, I've just never heard of them before..got any
>> > correspondin links?
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
>> > To: "PLUG Discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:24 AM
>> > Subject: Certifications - Thoughts?
>> >
>> >
>> > > I'm not going to ask if anyone has an opinion - not on this list -
>> > > rather, I would like to know what people's thoughts are on
>> > > BrainBench Certs.
>> > >
>> > > George
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