Correct, we no longer publish the number of people certified.
Why not?
because if people see the stats falling they will interpret this trend like "certs are not important anymore so why should I bother..."
Hi,
sorry I don't understand this answer.
I have done MCPD-EA (+Win) for .NET 2.0 in the past. Challenging but I could see how many people were there and how big was the community I was joining.
Now I am about to decide if to do WF4 certification and just looking at the number of the certified people out there, it could help.
If for example, there were only 1000 people in the world with that certification, I would take it immediately, then tell any potential employer: look at that! I belong to this restricted number of people who actually proved their knowledge of this.
This in the past has helped me in the competition to get a job.
But now, not knowing who is certified, I am not sure.
Maybe the whole certification is a joke, provided that not even Microsoft considers that seriously enough to publish the figures.
Maybe there are only a few certified people, those who work for Microsoft and related trainings.
Other type of certifications (e.g. financial bodies like CFA Institute) publish the number of certified people because usually issuers are proud of their numbers.
Maybe Microsoft doesn't care. And if Microsoft doesn't care about certifications, why should my next employer? and why should I?
