Consider your favorite fast food restaurant (or in this case… maybe your least favorite). They may be making tons of profit. However, their business practices are outdated, their customers are unhappy and you don’t see any progressive changes anytime soon. But they making money so they must be doing something right. Right? The finances give us an unbalanced view of how an organization is really doing.

Now further along in my career, I reflect back and realize that there were some employers who cared about the certification and others who cared about the degree and or experience. I concluded that what’s really expected can sometimes be ambiguous and subjective, depending on the company.