Certificates are valuable; showcasing your work is priceless!
Students pursue a University degree with the objective that they will get jobs. In reality any student who has earned a college degree is no different from 60 others in the same class. The only differentiator being the marks they have secured. Higher marks or scores help a student to be the first in line to attend an interview. Nothing more. With a vanilla college degree, getting a job in today’s market conditions is difficult. So, students take up some specialized skill courses from training institutes to earn a certificate. All students are required to execute a project in partial completion of the course and these projects are mostly generic in nature. Again, the students find themselves in a situation where their marks or grades are the only differentiator. Even after being certified, the students find themselves in the same situation that they were in right after they graduated. A decade or two ago certified professionals were few and jobs many. Certification in a certain skil...