Hello Fellow SW Users:
I need your help to figure out value of SW certification. I knowthat this has been debated for a few times. However, I want to makesure that this certification is worth mentioning on your resume.Over the years, like most of you, I have collected manyprofessional certifications. I don't have room to put many of thesecertifications on my resume.
It used to be that companies employed R&D engineers (forspecialized tasks; e.g. flow analysis, heat transfer), engineersfor product feasibility, designers for designing products and alsodetailers for tedious work of documenting/detailing. Not to mentionthat secretaries to type research papers/documents.
Now many companies want to employ one engineer who can do research,design, as well as complete detailed drawings and documents. Anysoftware, including SW is looked at as a tool. Being an engineeringprofessional, companies now expect you to know how to use it. Solet us say if you have a degree in engineering or professional inyour field, do you have to prove that you also know how to usedesign software? You don't provide certification for a wordprocessor or spreadsheet program to prove that you are proficientin using basic computer software, then why SW certification? Beinga professional, companies depend on you to know certain things, andif you don't know, then they expect you to figure it out quickly. Ithink the design software is one of them. You can see that more andmore professionals are now using design software that once wasexclusive domain of designers. I think being proficient in designsoftware is not such a big deal as it was just a few years ago.Going forward, it will continue to be less of an issue.
From what I learned from the forum is that the certification testdoes not look at your design aptitude, it just tests to see if youknow how to use the software. From what is mentioned on the forum,the main challenge/difficulty is to interpret the test. If so, whybother?
I look forward to a lively debate. Thank you for your time.
SW 2009 SP 2.0
Dell Precision 380
Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 300 GHz
2 GB, 533 MHz, DDR2 SDRAM
nVidia Quadro FX 3450, 256 MB PCIe
SolidworksGeneral
I need your help to figure out value of SW certification. I knowthat this has been debated for a few times. However, I want to makesure that this certification is worth mentioning on your resume.Over the years, like most of you, I have collected manyprofessional certifications. I don't have room to put many of thesecertifications on my resume.
It used to be that companies employed R&D engineers (forspecialized tasks; e.g. flow analysis, heat transfer), engineersfor product feasibility, designers for designing products and alsodetailers for tedious work of documenting/detailing. Not to mentionthat secretaries to type research papers/documents.
Now many companies want to employ one engineer who can do research,design, as well as complete detailed drawings and documents. Anysoftware, including SW is looked at as a tool. Being an engineeringprofessional, companies now expect you to know how to use it. Solet us say if you have a degree in engineering or professional inyour field, do you have to prove that you also know how to usedesign software? You don't provide certification for a wordprocessor or spreadsheet program to prove that you are proficientin using basic computer software, then why SW certification? Beinga professional, companies depend on you to know certain things, andif you don't know, then they expect you to figure it out quickly. Ithink the design software is one of them. You can see that more andmore professionals are now using design software that once wasexclusive domain of designers. I think being proficient in designsoftware is not such a big deal as it was just a few years ago.Going forward, it will continue to be less of an issue.
From what I learned from the forum is that the certification testdoes not look at your design aptitude, it just tests to see if youknow how to use the software. From what is mentioned on the forum,the main challenge/difficulty is to interpret the test. If so, whybother?
I look forward to a lively debate. Thank you for your time.
SW 2009 SP 2.0
Dell Precision 380
Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 300 GHz
2 GB, 533 MHz, DDR2 SDRAM
nVidia Quadro FX 3450, 256 MB PCIe
SolidworksGeneral
