On November 6, 2015 at 15:36, kgossen said...
Exactly!! I've been in electronics for almost as long as you and have also never been asked about Cedia. I've talked about Cedia and have never had a single customer know what it was.
The sad thing is a Yelp review has 100 times more impact to a consumer than being a Cedia certified installer/designer/programmer.
That's not so sad. You look at automotive techs or hair dressers -- consumers don't care about their certifications. Advertising the value of these certs to the mass market would be pointless.
But it does matter in terms of hiring and subcontracting. You might want to hire a certified CEDIA guy if for no other reason than they took the initiative to do the training.
Likewise, you may want to refer jobs to CEDIA-certified integrators in the absence of other credentials.
Certain institutional customers might care about certifications. A restaurant chain, for example, might require that each store use a certified CEDIA (or Infocomm) professional.
So, yeah, the certifications matter and it's important to abide to the same conventions as other tech trades.
