{"id":78,"date":"2009-12-22T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T10:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-12-22T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T09:54:09","slug":"do-i-need-a-certification-to-find-a-new-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/do-i-need-a-certification-to-find-a-new-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Need A Certification To Find A New Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/do-i-need-a-certification-to-find-a-new-job\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>&#8220;The reality of life is that your perceptions &#8212; right or wrong \u2013 influence everything else you do.<br \/>\nWhen you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other<br \/>\nthings fall into place.&#8221;~ Roger Birkman<\/p>\n<p>Here is a question I am ask very often and it almost always starts with a statement \u2013 \u201cI think I need a certification or training to get a job, what do you think?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>In most cases I want to say \u2013 \u201cIt does not matter what I think, your perception is you think you do need it, therefore you must.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course that would not help most people.  If you are asking the same question and attempting to determine if you do need a certification here are a few questions you can ask yourself.  These should help you.  After you ask the questions, if you want to discuss them with someone contact me and I will be happy to discuss them with you.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I want a certification?<\/p>\n<p>How will this certification help me do the job I want better?<\/p>\n<p>How will this certification help me use the skills I love to use every day in my ideal job?<\/p>\n<p>What is the cost of the certification over the 5 years?  <\/p>\n<p>What is my return on that investment over 5 years?<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<br \/>\nCindy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a question I am ask very often and it almost always starts with a statement \u2013 \u201cI think I need a certification or training to get a job, what do you think?\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,9,19,10,18],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search-focus","tag-accelerate-your-job-search","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-certification","tag-job-search","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}