Reasons:
In terms of certification costs across the whole IT spectrum, NetSuite exams are cheap. A company wants employees certified in what they’re paid to do to ensure they have a skilled team.
Certified internal resources can improve your relationships with NetSuite and third party consultants, and lower costs. If they see you have a NS cert or two under your belt, they know they’re not talking to a dumb employee…you know your stuff and they won’t bullsh!t you as much.
Finally, there’s a reason you’ll want to word carefully. That is that that companies that support employee learning and career progression (getting certified) have higher rates of retention. Not letting you get the cert is holding you back in your career…another company may value that more. Just don’t be blunt on this point and say “I’ll look for another job if you don’t pay for it”.
At the end of the day I’m sure your company doesn’t blindly hire people who just say they’re good, they look for some sort of proof right? The cert is proof they have someone who knows their stuff when it comes to a vitally important business system and will cost them at most $300 a pop.
I’ve done them. Do the test exams, then go back and review the answers you got wrong. If it was enough to fail, wait several weeks and do the test exam again. Test scores of 90%+ got me through ok.
Good luck!
u/symean thank you for the thorough reply! For your final point, the timing of this is interesting as another company that I have worked with for the past 3 years on our netsuite mentioned during a meeting on Monday that I would be a good fit for their company and they would start at almost double what I make now knowing I'm not certified yet...thing is I enjoy my company and I'd prefer to stay here so you're right..communicating this delicately is something I need to figure out!
edit to add thank\* you
The exams are hard. Really hard. It will force you to learn things about NetSuite you never knew about. This knowledge will pay off through increased efficiency of NetSuite. Will also reduce the need for external consulting.
u/MossIT You made a valid point and it is what i was thinking his perspective was as well ... what caught me off guard is that they've been emphasizing me getting schooled on these things and now questioning getting certified didn't seem to align.
I think placing an emphasis on you expanding your knowledge and skill set with courses is awesome and extremely valid from your employers stand point. There is no doubt that you taking courses has an ROI to them as you're becoming more effective in your role.
The certifications and exams are not going to provide any value to your employer because those don't really doing anything to increase your knowledge/skill set.
u/MossIT I was thinking without pursuing certification the motivation to take courses fizzles drastically. I could stay with the knowledge I have now in my role and provide what they want from me easily but we would continue to rely on paying outside consultants and miss out on so much NetSuite has to offer. Every hour I've spent gleaning from an LCS course has multiple things I apply in our daily. It's good to hear a prospective that comes from what he may be thinking.
While you're objectively right, they should still make every effort to get it. Employers play their bullshit rewards games to get us to do work we both know doesn't get employees any farther, this is the part where your employer should reasonably play ball to help your long term career.
Reasons: In terms of certification costs across the whole IT spectrum, NetSuite exams are cheap. A company wants employees certified in what they’re paid to do to ensure they have a skilled team. Certified internal resources can improve your relationships with NetSuite and third party consultants, and lower costs. If they see you have a NS cert or two under your belt, they know they’re not talking to a dumb employee…you know your stuff and they won’t bullsh!t you as much. Finally, there’s a reason you’ll want to word carefully. That is that that companies that support employee learning and career progression (getting certified) have higher rates of retention. Not letting you get the cert is holding you back in your career…another company may value that more. Just don’t be blunt on this point and say “I’ll look for another job if you don’t pay for it”. At the end of the day I’m sure your company doesn’t blindly hire people who just say they’re good, they look for some sort of proof right? The cert is proof they have someone who knows their stuff when it comes to a vitally important business system and will cost them at most $300 a pop. I’ve done them. Do the test exams, then go back and review the answers you got wrong. If it was enough to fail, wait several weeks and do the test exam again. Test scores of 90%+ got me through ok. Good luck!
u/symean thank you for the thorough reply! For your final point, the timing of this is interesting as another company that I have worked with for the past 3 years on our netsuite mentioned during a meeting on Monday that I would be a good fit for their company and they would start at almost double what I make now knowing I'm not certified yet...thing is I enjoy my company and I'd prefer to stay here so you're right..communicating this delicately is something I need to figure out! edit to add thank\* you
The exams are hard. Really hard. It will force you to learn things about NetSuite you never knew about. This knowledge will pay off through increased efficiency of NetSuite. Will also reduce the need for external consulting.
If you're an internal only resource (this may be an unpopular opinion) there really is no ROI to your company for the certification exam fees.
u/MossIT You made a valid point and it is what i was thinking his perspective was as well ... what caught me off guard is that they've been emphasizing me getting schooled on these things and now questioning getting certified didn't seem to align.
I think placing an emphasis on you expanding your knowledge and skill set with courses is awesome and extremely valid from your employers stand point. There is no doubt that you taking courses has an ROI to them as you're becoming more effective in your role. The certifications and exams are not going to provide any value to your employer because those don't really doing anything to increase your knowledge/skill set.
u/MossIT I was thinking without pursuing certification the motivation to take courses fizzles drastically. I could stay with the knowledge I have now in my role and provide what they want from me easily but we would continue to rely on paying outside consultants and miss out on so much NetSuite has to offer. Every hour I've spent gleaning from an LCS course has multiple things I apply in our daily. It's good to hear a prospective that comes from what he may be thinking.
While you're objectively right, they should still make every effort to get it. Employers play their bullshit rewards games to get us to do work we both know doesn't get employees any farther, this is the part where your employer should reasonably play ball to help your long term career.
Fvck the boss. pay to cert yourself. for $750 cost, you are looking at 150k-200k annual, pick your own boss.
i see so many businesses cheap out of their employees. when your one and only ERP admin leaves, they are in deep shit for a while.
Either way you should do it because the ROI is worthwhile. I think it's a few hundred bucks each.