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Agree with other suggestions, but consider this. - SM

Posted: Oct 30th, 2015 - 8:09 pm In Reply to: no testing so far... - wondering

Your story seems inconsistent. If that is the background you present to employers, that may explain why they are not interested.

First you said you had a CCS, self-study, and no experience. That is a problem, because the CCS requires a certain type of course or 2 years of experience or another credential and a year of experience. Employers who see that are going to assume you do not really have the CCS or that you got it fraudulently.

In your next post, you said you had some coding experience from many years ago. Well, which is it? Experience or no experience? Two years or not two years?

It is certainly possible to pass the CCS without experience and by self-study, but you need to resolve the ethical issue. Believe it or not, that issue is as big or bigger than having experience. Employers might hire you without experience, but they cannot hire you in the face of an ethical problem. Their compliance program policies won't let them.

That is the problem you need to clear up before applying.

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