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The issue is that there's no pressure on employers to require it, so there's no advantage on e.g. employability or salary from getting these codes.

I live in the UK and was considering going through the British Computer Society certification process years ago, but dropped it, because while I do care about the ethical side etc. the additional amount of effort it'd take to document skills I already had was not worth it when prospective employers in the fields I've worked in just did not care.




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