Finished Your Training? Get a Certificate of Completion.
If you want to get a raise or stand out from a crowd of job hunt competitors, you need something to differentiate yourself.
Whenever you finish a training class – including mine – ask if you can get a certificate of completion. For example, here’s what mine look like:
You can generate ’em yourself after you’ve finished each one of my training courses. (You won’t see the course completion certificate option until you’ve actually finished the courses, otherwise, trust me, people would just print ’em as soon as they buy the course. Trust me – we’ve had plenty of students ask for their certificates without actually watching any of the videos, and yes, we do track it.)
We have different certificates for each course, including the free ones. Yes, you should even be proud of the free ones, because there are plenty of folks in our industry who don’t even go to free training classes, let alone get their certificates of completion!
They come in PDF format, and you can also screenshot ’em to put on your LinkedIn profile. I would add ’em to your profile over time, as you complete each course, showing prospective employers that yes, you have a provable track record of learning, with timestamps over time.
If you want to add me to your LinkedIn network too, feel free. I only accept connections from folks who actually appear to be working in the database industry, with a picture on their profile. (I don’t accept ones from headhunters, sales folks, anonymous folks, etc.) Hopefully that helps expose your resume to more folks in the database industry.
For problems with the certs, feel free to click contact at the top of the site. Include screenshots of the exact error you’re getting, and the screenshot should include the URL in your browser. Thanks!
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When I get my 3 wishes, one of them will be “Can the rest of the world please have a bit of a sense of humor?”.
Staying awake and possibly learning something are funny because it’s true!
Although, I never have trouble staying awake when you are talking.
Thank you sir, for having that sense of humour, and for adding some laughter to my day.
(and yes, I am Incredibly Good-Looking…)
Hahaha, glad you liked it!
Hi Brent, it seems the automatic certificate creation particular for “Mastering Index Tuning” and “Mastering Query Tuning” is not working. Rest are working
Would appreciate if I can get mine before my courses expires, at the end of this month :D.
Thank you for all the content free and paid that you publish! Great stuff!
Cristian – thanks, glad you like my work! For problems with the certs, feel free to click contact at the top of the site. Include screenshots of the exact error you’re getting, and the screenshot should include the URL in your browser. Thanks!
Hi Brent,
I have finished multiple courses, including mastering. How to generate the certificates of those already finished courses? By going to the last module and restarting it ?
Swen – for problems with the certs, feel free to click contact at the top of the site. Include screenshots of the exact error you’re getting, and the screenshot should include the URL in your browser. Thanks!
Hi Brent, I love the humor!
Unfortunately, not all managers /employers can have a sense of humor. Is it possible to add an ability to generate “Serious” version of certificate, and “Humor” version (like the one we see in this post), separately for the same course ?
No, sorry, we can only do one certificate of completion per course, sorry about that. Feel free to have your managers check in with me if necessary and ask me serious questions, and I’ll do my best to answer seriously. 🙂