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发帖数: 637 | 1 I make arrangement from SAS-L, hope it helps!
Robert Feyerharm to SAS-L
Thought I'd poll the members here on SAS certification before I invest
time & money.
Is it worth the time and money to obtain SAS certification? Do potential
employers notice if you're certified, or does programming experience and
education count for more?
Thanks,
"Robert Feyerharm" wrote in message
When I'm hiring someone (I work in clinical trials) it goes like this.
Formal education counts - witho |
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发帖数: 637 | 2 Murphy Choy to SAS-L
Hi Robert,
I guess the question here is whether you are currently an experienced
SAS programmer with a degree?
If you are one, I believe that the benefits of SAS certifications is
minimum. The reason behind this is that experienced programmers are more
evaluated based on their previous experience with SAS programming, what
they have achieved and what specialty skills they have. Although I am
certified, when I went for interview for my current job, they never ask
for my |
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发帖数: 637 | 3 Murphy Choy to SAS-L
Hi,
There is one particular organization that provides certification for
Statistician which is the Royal Statistical Society in UK. They provide
professional qualification for Statisticians who aspired to become
Chartered Statistician.
Francois van der Walt to SAS-L
Good point:
I have been practising as a SAS consultant over a long period and used to
be SAS certified programmer. In all the time as a cosnultant I am not aware
of the certification making any differen |
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发帖数: 637 | 4 Mary to SAS-L
In the U.S., certainly having a masters degree in statistics or
biostatistics from a major accredited U.S. University serves as
"certification"; I don't believe that a degree outside the U.S, except
perhaps from Canada or the U.K. would carry that sort of weight- certainly
there seem to be a fair amount of "fly-by-night" colleges in India (at least
from what we see on SAS-L :-) ) that don't have anywhere near the standards
that U.S. universities do and thus having a degree fr |
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发帖数: 637 | 5 John Burton to SAS-L
I've been lerking in the background reading all the comments. I
generally agree that certification does not mater as much as education
and experience.
Recently, I have been seeing more hiring managers requiring Base SAS
certification. My guess is that the job market is so full of hungry
experienced SAS candidates that they may be using the certification as
another filtering agent. UNfortunately, they may be weeding out some
very qualified candidates.
Also, I saw a po |
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发帖数: 637 | 6 SAS_learner to SAS-L
Hello John,
I agree with you, It happened in own case when I had interview for major
pharmaceutical company the hiring manager did ask me are you SAS certified
or not (I did not put it in my resume) . I told him Yes I am then he asked
me why I did not not put it in my resume, Then I referred him to SAS-L
discussion and told him what I felt. I think he agreed with me (The reason
is I got the Job) . Well what ever it is I think the gaining Popularity of
SAS certification is g |
