I was intending to say that they both served the same purpose, an indication to the employer as to what level of knowledge and expertise the potential employee has. I was not intending to equate a Degree to a SW certification.

I'm not sure the certification is on the same level as a college degree. So it is a benefit to us for those that do verses those that don't have certification. We don't have to spend that time or funds for those who show up with the certification when they walk in the door. We require all new engineering hires that don't have a CSWA certification to get certified and we pay for their time and the test. We have to spend additional training time with those who don't have certification.

Yes there is a noticeable benefit between those who show up with solidworks certifications and those that don't. I do the solidworks training for all new engineering hires at the company I work at. Have you previously used the certifications as a way to hire employees? If so have you hired employees with or without the certifications? Did you notice a benefit between the ones who had vs the ones who haven't? I will agree you do need to have some degree of experience with solidworks required to pass the tests however I know each company will have it's own processes or procedures on their way of designing in solidworks and you'll most likey training their candidates that way. A degree does not mean you will be able to do something, are good at something etc it merely means that at one point or another you had obtained some level of knowledge and training proven by 'Passing a test'. It's no more or less useful than a college degree. The advantage is that any prospective employer can reasonably assume the person they are looking at to hire has at least a certain level of knowledge. I'm just curious to see what other users thoughts are on the certifications? The main reason why I wanted to completed these was after working for the last 10 years and now in a management position when candidates note certifications on their resume I wanted to see what they exam consisted of.Īfter do those test I don't think I see the value in the certification, sure I was able to perform some tasks and get the right answers but because there is so many ways of completing operations in Solidworks I don't know if I see the value in these certs. The last two days I burned through a few, CWSA, CWSP, CWSP-Weldments, CWSP-Sheet Metal which I all passed, I did fail the CWSP-Drawing, but that was because I had to get some rush work completed and ran out of time. Because I got VIP for 3D Experience World I got free exam access for the Solidworks Certifications.

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