Ask HN: Did the CAPM certification help you land a job?

1 points by readonthegoapp 2 years ago | 3 comments

CAPM stands for Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).

It is done by the Project Management Institute (PMI) -- the same folks who do the PMP certification, the PMP-ACP (Agile) cert, etc.

The CAPM cert does not have the 'X hours/days/years of Project Management experience' work requirement.

Instead, it has some minimum project managment education experience requirement -- something like that -- so even a non-project manager can get this particular certification -- though you might have to take an online course or similar.

Also, curious if you learned anything useful, especially if you have project management experience.

tamimio 2 years ago |

I have the PM certificate, and it’s expired now, and I don’t think I will renew it either, the whole concept pay-to-be-certified or it’s expired is a scam, is your formal college degree ever expired?! Other certs too don’t expire either.

I know that’s probably not what you asked for but I’m putting it up first just to make it clear, did PM cert helped me in finding a job? No, did I learned about project management after taking the education? Of course, and it helps as a skill even if you’re not working as a PM, after all, you will need to manage yourself, your tasks, schedule and everything, and also teaches you how to effectively deliver those tasks, by not introducing scope creeps and what not. So yeah, go ahead and take it, it might help with the job just don’t rely on that, and definitely do not renew it after.

readonthegoapp 2 years ago | |

thanks, i started looking at some of the material and i have a hard time believing that it's... ummm.... valid content?

it just kind of seems made up.

like... management leads by relational power, whereas leadership leads by authority power.

what is that?

and these are the terms and categories -- which are words in the English language -- affect these types of deliverable, but if you know English pretty well, that knowledge is going to get in the way of passing this exam -- because we're just arbitrarily making up words and phrases and concepts and lumping them together.

the nomenclature is not completely outlandish, necessarily, but it definitely seems suspect -- from my 15 minutes of review.

i guess i believe that there _is_ a science of project management and that is has valid principles that are actually useful in carrying out serious projects, but.... is this it?

like, _this_ wacky set of arbitrary words and phrases is what guides projects in America and/or the world?

jstx1 2 years ago |

For what position? It might be helpful for a PM but for an engineеring role I would see it as a bit of a red flag.