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Being a CFA carries a lot of weight. It seems like certifications (unsurprisingly) work when a lot of effort has been made to set up the certifications properly

• vertex-four 12y ago
  > The reason why we haven't seen such an effort in a lot of areas is probably because most places are relying on college degrees. In the world of IT, university degrees mean very little, as universities almost universally fail to teach anything useful for that industry. There's still very few certs that mean anything. At the entry level, all of the certs are dreadful, and past the entry level, experience usually matters more than what certs you have.
• smm2000 12y ago
  CFA requires bachelor degree, four years of professional experience and series of exams with cumulative passing rate of 16% - so it's not just certification.
• ghaff 12y ago
  It also helps when a certification is testing to a relative specific and concrete set of knowledge. Some IT certs are certainly better than others and they probably speak more to some base level of knowledge as opposed to real competence. That said, it's easier to use a test (preferably with a hands-on component) to test for $TECH administration competence than it is to test for computer science competence in a broad sense.