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If you don’t have one yet, a cloud platform certification is a good start. Amazon AWS, Azure, Informatica… any one of those will translate decently well to other platforms (a lot of crossover similarities), so pick one that’s widely applicable to projects you’d like to work on.

From there you can focus on specific elements of those platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) based on the parts of the data lifecycle you like to work — ETL, analytics/dashboards, cleaning, metadata/catalog, or compliance/security, to name a few.

If you’re not sure, ask your manager what some trends are if you don’t know, or see if they have connections you can be introduced to that can help guide you toward 1-2 pathways.

I've been told many times that certifications really don't do much to beef up your resume. I think a lot of people try to compensate for low work experience by getting a bunch of certifications but I've been told over and over that employers don't really care about them.

Simply having the cert won’t help much. If you have direct experience showing how you used that cert to make an impact in the business, that’s a lot more powerful.

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Nothing yet really, have been looking around the sites like Udemy and Coursera for something that is interesting and can help me at work. True that getting a bunch of certs to slap on the resume will probably have mixed returns, but I think it can look good for showing you like professional development.

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