is the Micro-certification useful for Job ??

AKSHAY CHAVHAN · ‎04-11-2020

i just wanted to know about the micro certification ?? it is useful for job point of view??

Ashley Snyder1 · ‎04-14-2020

Working for a partner versus a customer will have varying degrees on the importance of obtaining and maintaining certifications. In speaking of terms of interviewing with ServiceNow customers, different organizations place different levels of importance on having certifications. That being said, if you have the time to study and take free Micro-certifications, or even some of the free mainline certifications in areas that you're interested in or want to grow into, it is never a waste of time, and will ultimately be important to you in your personal career growth. In the case that you're not applying for a job and are unsure if you should supplement your current job, more than likely you're going to be asked to explore or implement a new area of the platform, such as Automated Test Framework, and having the Micro-certification or training under your belt will make it a less painful process and provide more value to the company. In past experience on being on the other side of the interview table, where I was interviewing candidates, I did take certifications into account. Certifications did not make the decision on whether the candidate was qualified for the job, just that they were one indicator (there are others) that the candidate was willing to learn and spend their time challenging themselves in different areas of the platform. Deltas also ensure those candidates are keeping up to date on new areas of the platform. Hope this helps!

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Adrian Ubeda · ‎04-14-2020

Hi,

Obviously, mainline certification is the goal as a serviceNow admin, developer or whatever cause all the mainline certification are related with all core functionality from platform and having knowledge from that gives always extra value and make you be more valuable into the market as SN professional.

However, MC are non-proctored which means are more accessible from NowLearning web and based on extra/useful functionality that is only mentioned on courses from mainline certification. Take MC it's not going to give you 100% of experience/knowledge of platform but it's good to have as much as you can of this for balancing your knowledge and having a total view from platform modules.

If you have the opportunity, I'll take as much as you could.

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Dhruv Gupta1 · ‎04-14-2020

Mainly I would recommend to get them they will give you knowledge and that could be helpful in interviews. And when you go for mainline certs in future we have concept of suite certs which is nothing but a combination of mainline and micro certs. In case you need more specific information kindly ping me up I will guide you through.

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Ashley Snyder1 · ‎04-14-2020

Working for a partner versus a customer will have varying degrees on the importance of obtaining and maintaining certifications. In speaking of terms of interviewing with ServiceNow customers, different organizations place different levels of importance on having certifications. That being said, if you have the time to study and take free Micro-certifications, or even some of the free mainline certifications in areas that you're interested in or want to grow into, it is never a waste of time, and will ultimately be important to you in your personal career growth. In the case that you're not applying for a job and are unsure if you should supplement your current job, more than likely you're going to be asked to explore or implement a new area of the platform, such as Automated Test Framework, and having the Micro-certification or training under your belt will make it a less painful process and provide more value to the company. In past experience on being on the other side of the interview table, where I was interviewing candidates, I did take certifications into account. Certifications did not make the decision on whether the candidate was qualified for the job, just that they were one indicator (there are others) that the candidate was willing to learn and spend their time challenging themselves in different areas of the platform. Deltas also ensure those candidates are keeping up to date on new areas of the platform. Hope this helps!