Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?

Re:Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately ... by shkkmo on Sunday June 26, 2022 @12:08AM (#31880967)

The solution to that would seem to be recommending that people choose dive schools that take their Job seriously and don't pass people who haven't mastered the skills. Recommending against getting training is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

If you have no experience, just a cert, then you should stay out of the way with those with experience and help as requested.

However, with many dive accidents, you don't have the luxury of waiting for a more experienced diver and having that training will give you a better chance of saving your buddy's life.

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Re:Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately ... by leaflets2 on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:52AM (#31884526)

> recommending that people choose dive schools that take their Job seriously and don't pass people who haven't mastered the skills

I think the point was that such schools get bad reviews, and look like bad choices, might get out completed by more lax schools

Apparently academia (universities) works a bit in the same way, there was a recent HN discussion

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Re:Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately ... by shkkmo on Sunday June 26, 2022 @04:31PM (#31887659)

In my experience, I was able to fairly accurately glean a lot about the culture of a dive shop by the reviews it got.

I think that people often just go with the cheapest option without doing the additional research.

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Re:Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately ... by mvid on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:19AM (#31895789)

The people should definitely get the training, but probably without the cert. The cert for certain things, like rescue in particular, should probably be validated by an external agency that isn't the school

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