Certification and Training

Hello all, 

Trying to get general feedback. I have always had the mindset of the more certifications the better. As I get older and later in my career I start to ask myself is there a point to where I say Ok do I really need all of these and should I just focus on for instance the Professional Certification and a Specialty I want to focus on? To add some additional context. I currently have 4 of them. I am studying for another at the moment and will take it shortly before I have to go back and re-new my Professional certification before I start on the next one I wanted to do which would make it a total of 6. By all means not bragging at all. I am just looking for everyones thoughts on how you yourself keep up with the rotation of ever expiring certs!

Thank you in advance for your input.

#Certification #Training

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Mark A. Cains
Contact Center Engineer, Unified Communications
Office of Information Technology (OIT)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Hello @Mark Cains.

For me, the certification exam is a motivation to learn new things. The study guide and labs will give you a learning path, and for me, it works very well. And in the end, having all badges is nice! 

But there is no problem to focus on specific products or areas, for example, if you don't use WFM, it probably doesn't make sense to try for a certificate for this if you are not trying to use this product. Everything resumes in the area you want to act and become really good at it.

I'm trying to group similar certifications so that when I need to renew, I can concentrate my studies on a similar topic.