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Probably none of them.
No one certification will do that: we have no idea what direction your career is supposed to be heading, and a certification is normally in a pretty narrow field - so unless your career is extremely specialized, you will probably want several.
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A "degree" comes to mind.
You can get one after three to five years of college.
Highly recommended.
After that, it's really a matter of "it depends".
If you're doing Java, a C# certificate will probably do you little good.
If you're doing Azure, you can skip the AWS certificates.
In my experience, employers ask for Microsoft, AWS, Google and Scrum certificates, so they should help you.
Make sure you get the official ones though, a Udemy certificate of completion or a W3 Schools certificate won't do you much good.
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it's impossible to answer without more details.
anecdotal, I'm 50 and I have no certification and my career is good, and no one ever mention them.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Same here, but then I'm and embedded developer. 
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In my experience, the only thing that I have found to boost one's career is being in the right place at the right time - on top of hard work and diligence.
But, if you want to send me $300, I can reveal many ancient and mystical secrets that will make you rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams.
modified 5-Apr-21 9:45am.
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If you send me your bank details (including password) I will deposit the $300 quite soon.
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Another thing that makes me go "HMM!!!" 
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Slacker007 wrote: ancient and mystical secrets that will make you rich and powerful beyond your wildest dreams
...in $300 increments.
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Probably the one the company you work for, or want to work for requires. I'm switching jobs and have to do some MS certs because they require it for their MS partnership.
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IMNSHO the certs are all BS, and I'd only bring them up if asked. Otherwise (if I'm the one interviewing an applicant) you come across as someone who's drunk the Kool-Aid and are just too eager to play that dumb game. Depending on who you're talking to, you don't want to show you're buying into the BS.
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It might be making use of an idiom ( USA/English ) but all in all, the best certification is that you are not "certifiable".
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Mango Mind wrote: Which is the best certification that helps you to boost your career?
"Experience" working in your field.
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Anything that HR lists on the job posting. Seriously, certifications generally are only useful to get past HR and to the actual hiring manager.
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In 47 years, interviewing thousands, hiring many hundreds, managing large and small projects and teams, I never considered certs in the process. Never. Not once. I have gotten certs, and I have paid teams to get certified in something specific (like Windows NT, when it was new; Java, when it was new; AWS, when it was new). But, I never told HR, and I never looked at resumes, to see if someone had a particular cert. The work they did, their experience, told me they were "certified".
The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker
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The one your company pays for.
(personally I believe getting a university library card is better money spent)
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I had an Oracle cert. Full OCP, back when it was the only cert Oracle offered.
I got it because I thought it would be a career changer.
But every time I'd apply for a job in MS-SQL server or Crystal Reports they'd look at that and say "well, he's got that cert, he must be good". And it would help me get the job.
Years later, still no Oracle job. But that non-related cert mattered over and over. On those very rare occasions when they asked why I didn't have an Oracle career behind me, I'd say that the MS-SQL Server jobs were what was available.
On top of that, I've noted when interviewing people that no matter what cert you have IT DOESN'T GET YOU OUT OF THE TECHNICAL INTERVIEW. You still have to stand in front of the whiteboard and go over whatever it is you are supposed to do. You still do the dance. Experience is the big factor, and the ability to get along with others is the second.
My advice, based on all that, is to get one that imparts actual knowledge to you that is relevant to your career. My Oracle cert imparted knowledge that became relevant when I'd have to speak to the differences between database systems. If you don't think it will be a respected cert, take the classes for the knowledge and don't bother to pay for testing. A MySQL cert path for a programmer strikes me as an example of value added. Or taking the MongoDB or Cassandra
The other issue worth bringing up are the people with too many certs. We used to call them "paper tigers" because they had all the certs and none of the necessary know-how. Some people are good test-takers, and it actually detracts since most of us know it. So if you have a ton of certs, don't put them all on the resume you give to a company. Just put in the few they asked for or one or two that impress managers.
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The one from the psychiatrist.
Software Zen: delete this;
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In English "to be certified" can mean that one has been certified as insane
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The answer: none. My career has best been helped by a combination of University Education and experience, and more recently by my accomplishments. No certification program could now equal what I know and can bring to a company. To me Certification programs are aimed at increasing profits for the companies that offer them.
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Some weeks ago the trouble started when a colleague did a commit on Git of the Boost library which consisted of thousands of files.
It first crippled our TeamCity CI builder, luckily the folks at JetBrains solved the problem within a week, it had to do with the increased number of database transactions apparently.
Then our "Codec" solution (C# and C++) started showing build problems on the builder and the TeamCity build log showed only reams of gobbledigook.
After much trial and error I could solve the build problem by using an MsBuild option to disable parallel processing.
The problems did not stop there, now the video playback of our Video Surveillance product won't work as it should anymore.
Sigh. 
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RickZeeland wrote: did a commit
RickZeeland wrote: which consisted of thousands of files.
modified 5-Apr-21 5:31am.
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