Non-Education Board certificates are not a baseline for anything besides having read the book and paid the money. They are essentially meaningless, these days

Non-Education Board certificates are not a baseline for anything besides having read the book and paid the money. They are essentially meaningless, these days -- more a way for a Com to fleece you -- and seeing them on a CV, I tend to view them as noise; nice to have, I guess, but proving absolutely nothing useful. A "Preferred Reading List" might mean more to me on a CV, but that's easy to fake. The biggest problem is cert's would almost never pass the same standards as the equivalent from most govt's Education Exam board. If they did, perhaps they would be more useful. Education Exam standards can also vary significantly between countries, and these com's sadly can't be bothered in expending the effort internationally.