Google offers certificate to help IT career growth

Re:Google offers certificate to help IT career growth by ocdtrekkie on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:57PM (#22077240)

A lot of IT has moved to MSPs. And MSPs care that their engineers are certified in the software or equipment their clients use. It's a selling point, because personnel are the product.

But if the job is working with Cisco network equipment and Windows PCs, a Google cert is worth less than the paper it's printed on. I don't know how many businesses would value a general "IT Support Certification" from Google, because most businesses aren't using Google's platform.

Google certs for G Suite and such tend to be worth it in the education space where Chromebooks for all have taken over.

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Re:Google offers certificate to help IT career growth by Whinner on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:29PM (#22077573)

As a follow up on this, MSPs also get better pricing depending on the number of certified employees they have. For instance, years ago the MSP i worked for needed a number of people to have their VMware VCP cert to get to the next level. Even after someone left, they kept their VCP still associated with the MSP.

Cisco also does the same thing. You need a certain number of CCIEs on staff for better pricing.

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