Can you learn skills online at home and put them on your resume? (interview, jobs)
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Does it count? So for example let's say I learned SQL using online tutorial without having an actual experience using it at work. Will I have a chance of getting an interview for a job that requires SQL skills?
If you are going to learn SQL, you might as well get the cert. It's unlikely that you get a job by just listing it in your skills. Anybody can do that. I got my SQL cert, last year. I have no job experience. I got a $20k raise at a new job. The test was only $200. I studied from 2 books off Amazon.
Does it count? So for example let's say I learned SQL using online tutorial without having an actual experience using it at work. Will I have a chance of getting an interview for a job that requires SQL skills?
For SQL that should not be an issue because you can do a couple of freelance projects with to get some real world experience. Even if you have to do them for not much money. And then bring them in a work portfolio to interviews.
For skills not so easy to get practical experience, I would say familiar with such and such.
And the cert is also another good aspect.
If you are going to learn SQL, you might as well get the cert. It's unlikely that you get a job by just listing it in your skills. Anybody can do that. I got my SQL cert, last year. I have no job experience. I got a $20k raise at a new job. The test was only $200. I studied from 2 books off Amazon.
BTW-I am sure you didn't just get a cert from "Joe Shmucatelli's school of SQl perfection". It was an Oracle SQL certification correct? It makes a difference WHAT certification you receive.
Definitely research certifications. I would contact people who have such certifications and ask them the pros and cons as IT certifications get expensive very quickly.
I think the freelance idea helps as well to build your resume.
BTW-I am sure you didn't just get a cert from "Joe Shmucatelli's school of SQl perfection". It was an Oracle SQL certification correct? It makes a difference WHAT certification you receive.
Yep. It was the Oracle SQL Expert. It put me at over $80k after a raise. I spent 3-4 times a week studying for 1-2 hours. It took 3 months, but it was well worth it. Cert paid for itself on 1st day of new job. That's pretty good money for a HS grad and I don't have to worry about student loans.
A cert from Microsoft or Oracle would be recognized and easily verified by the employer.
While I don't have the computer skills you are talking about, I have other online skills, computer skills, organizational skills, and in-home caregiving. When I took all of these things to a resume builder, he said that all of wht I had been doing is valuable. I re-wrote my resume and am now interviewing. Yes, you can use your at-home learning on our resume!
Does it count? So for example let's say I learned SQL using online tutorial without having an actual experience using it at work. Will I have a chance of getting an interview for a job that requires SQL skills?
What kind of jobs are you interviewing for?
Work on a home/side project with MySQL, or PostgreSQL to get some experience. If you think you can handled being tested on it in an interview then put it on your resume.
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