Let me also state: If you have a certification and are having troubles landing a job, do a personal project to highlight your capability. It doesn't have to be

Let me also state: If you have a certification and are having troubles landing a job, do a personal project to highlight your capability. It doesn't have to be hard.. or expensive! It barely needs to even look good -- if you're a back end guy, getting into an interview room and taking about the great CICD or script setup you did matters more than if it's a white page with black text... And if you're certified, you should know there's plenty of free it under $1/month options for AWS service. I hired one guy without a cert because he showed me the game server he set up in AWS to play with friends