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Training in a Foreign Technology Boot Camp?

Posted by Cliff on from the intensive-learning dept.

Martin Clarke asks: "I've recently been considering undertaking a technology boot camp to get some more certs under my belt to help with my employability. I've always taught myself, but I feel like I need to get it done. I've came across an interesting option, a very well priced tech boot camp in Dehli from Koenig. Has anyone ever considered something like this? What other unorthodox training options have Slashdot readers tried?"

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  1. Dehli? by metlin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or perhaps you mean the Indian Capital of New Delhi?

    Anyway, I would say just this -- get a degree. A degree is infinitely better than any certifications that you may take. While certifications are nice things to have, a degree speaks a whole lot more.

    If you have one, work on a master's part time. Much better than wasting money on these things.

    But that's just me. And personally, when I hire, I do not look for either of these -- degrees or certifications -- but rather technical skill and talent. Things like Opensource projects and other kinds of experience plays a bigger role than either of those.

    But ofcourse, you may come across PHBs who think otherwise. At which point it becomes a call of judgement.

  2. Over-glorified vacation... by krymsin01 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I guess the question is if you want to go to New Delhi or not. And if you want to pay a lot more money than if you went on vacation...

    Thinking about it, if I were a potential employer and you came to me and said: "I got my MSCE (or whatever) cert in New Delhi," the first thing I'd ask you is "Why?"

    I can't see a defendable position for that question. 1) You'll be studying the same material that you would be studing in a program in your own country. 2) You could have studied on your own and saved money. 3) You just wasted a lot of money by taking a course in ANOTHER country.

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  3. Because it is fscking cheaper Sherlock. by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thankfully you are not my potential employer, for people acostumed to jump accross continents the place where a certification was confered has little importance.

    Certifications are pretty much the same everywhere (that is why they are backed up by global companies), I have taken them in Asia, Latin America, the US and Europe.

    Your comment is frankly childish.

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