To paraphrase the question, is spending money to get a certification from an institute worth your time and investments? Yes, I believe so because you are enhancing your skills and increasing your value to your company and your added certified skills will merit you other job offers from different companies aside from your years of experience on your current job.

Say you are a network technician or commonly known as technical support, If you earn your microsoft credentials as certified network engineer or any other technical packages, or get yourself a CISCO certification or a TESDA course, most human resource managers will take your application and place them to the desirable to hire immediately.

If you are an enginerr understudy
for a construction company, you stand to benefit more by taking project management courses so that as you increase your time in your job, your newly certified skills as an educated project manager from an institute will increase your chances of being hired as a project manager.

If you are an ordinary management trainee, you increase your edge over the other co-employees by taking short courses that enhances your skill set from accounting, appraising, inventory practices and many more. Moreover, if you have the resources and time, a MBA will definitely get you your dream job of a manager if you successfully get one from a credible school.

Can anyone share his thoughts on this line of thinking? If you have some good experiences that can help or inspire us to do the same pls share them.