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Do the Certificate has weight now-a-days

 
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Well, I am planning to give SCJP before the year end.
But all I want to know is that Do the Certificate has weight now-a-days ??? People say its going down.
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Who are these people and what to they base this view on?
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People also say the dooms day is next week... do you still want to take that vacation ?
 
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Actually, I think the certification is much more relevent now. This is for sure that the market has surplus java programmers (including 'fake' java gurus as per their resumes). Just imagine how a manager would filter out a bunch of resumes? If I get 15 resumes (which, incidently, I got yesterday!), I definitely don't have time to interview all of them. After sorting by experience, I would most probably pick the resumes having good marks in the SCJP certification or probably resumes with SCJD! And then I would interview may be 5-6.
When the market was up, nobody cared about the certification. Managers were getting 2 resumes for 3 positions!
These are the facts, you decide for yourself whether certification is useful or not.
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