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I got laid off last year from a 15 year mainframe job, and have been studying C++ with WIN32 and MFC since then. I started learning C# with .NET 2.0 recently, and have reached a fork in the road of my self learning. I read what I could about MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD certifications on MSDN, and bought VS 2005 with MSDN Pro subscription. So, I would prefer to go forward with .NET 2.0 learning than backwards.

Would becoming certified really prove to help me? With so many jobs in my area requiring a BS in CS and x+ years real work experience, I feel I need something to prove that I have ability, but see the MS certifications as being rather platform specific. I am also not sure whether I should take the web or application developer route.

I got into the mainframe stuff after it had really peaked (airline reservation systems and online credit card authorization processing). The market value of that kind of programming has pretty much died, due to mergers and the fact that the work can be done in India.

So, I want to learn stuff that is more on the leading edge, but am wondering if web programming has matured.

A secondary question would be if anyone knows if there are any organizations in Silicon Valley that help with such career decisions and bridge the gap between an individual and the various companies that are hiring?

Thanks.

-- modified at 16:07 Monday 25th September, 2006

Oh, I also don't understand why one would need 2-3 years experience developing web applications (for the MCDP - Web developer one). If you have on the job experience already, you either already know the material or have been doing things another way (like Java). Wouldn't a certification be similar to a degree from a school? How would one even get that first job and then decide later that have a certification would matter over their job experience?

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