The Importance of Certification

 

When we call somebody a “professional,” it means they have a particular set of skills that your average person does not have. For instance, an electrician or plumber is a professional person because they’ve received the proper education and training to work in those respective professions. The proof of their skills in these trades come in the form of certificates.

It is customary to receive a certificate after you complete a trade course at a vocational school. A certificate signals to employers, clients, and customers that you can perform your profession’s duties. Most employers and customers will not hire you to perform specialized jobs or projects without the appropriate certification on your resume.\

Certification vs. Degree

What do you think is better, certification or degree? We’ve been told most of our lives to receive a college or university degree. However, a degree does not prove you have any specific skills. It only shows you received post-secondary education in a generalized major, such as law or business. But it does not prove you have the skills necessary to perform well in a real-world setting.

When you join a certification program, you received specialized hands-on training in one particular field. You don’t have to take a bunch of college courses that don’t relate to your trade. Instead, all of the studying will help you enhance your skills and become better at your trade. The best part is that a certification program’s tuition price is far less money than a college degree program’s tuition.

Build Job Skills

Most certification programs can be completed within 3 to 12 months. This allows you to study multiple trades and expand your knowledge and skills across several fields. The more certifications you obtain, the more marketable you will be to employers and customers. Why not spend a little bit of free time each day and work towards building your knowledge through certification programs?

Thanks to the internet age, you don’t have to live near vocational schools to receive your certifications. There are plenty of online certification programs which let you earn an accredited certificate without even having to leave your house. You can earn certifications in various fields, including I.T. support, programming, TESOL, web design and so on.

The world is moving very quickly. If you want to stay afloat in the job market, you need to keep learning new skills to remain competitive. Certifications are how you get those skills and prove to everyone else that you have them. That is how you will gain recognition and employment. But most importantly, it will give you confidence in yourself.

Certification – Upskilling

Upskilling commonly refers to employees who learn new skills to help themselves perform better in the workplace. But you don’t need to be an employee to benefit from upskilling. If you’re an entrepreneur, businessperson or freelancer, you can take advantage of upskilling to help yourself and your business.

When you have successfully learned a new skill, you will be issued a certification as proof. A certificate is a permanent addition to your resume, which you can take with you for the rest of your life. After you earn one certificate, you should work toward earning another certificate. There is no limit to the number of skills and certifications that you can learn in this world.

Below are the top four benefits of upskilling to increase your certifications.

1) More Job Opportunities

Upskilling for certifications will give you more job opportunities. Companies are always looking to hire highly skilled employees. If you can obtain the necessary skills needed to secure suitable employment, you will have several job opportunities to choose from in your preferred field.

2) More Self-Confidence

People who have more certifications tend to have more self-confidence. When you possess several different skills, you will feel good about yourself and what you’ve accomplished. That is an achievement no one can take away from you.

Good self-confidence can help you in all aspects of your life. You can perform better at interviews, customer support, business meetings, and any other social situation.

3) Live a Happier Life

Over 70% of the people in this world are working jobs they don’t like to do. But you have the power to choose your destiny by upskilling and obtaining the skills necessary to work a better job. Then you can live a happier life performing a job you love rather than a job you hate.

4) Increase Customer Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction is the heart of any business model. When you have more skills, you can create better products and services for your customers. It’ll even make it easier to answer their questions and help them out.

As a result, you’ll see an increase in customer satisfaction because of all the skills you bring to the table. That will translate into more significant profits and repeat business for yourself or your employer.

Conclusion

Anyone with a computer and internet connection can learn new skills and obtain accredited certifications. You simply need to put forward the time and effort into making it happen for yourself.

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History of Flipbooks

 The earliest known flipbooks originated during medieval times, such as the flipbook “Sigenot” from 1470. It was the first book on record to have sequential imagery in it. Although its images do not create a consistent motion, they showcase different action sequences of the characters.

Nobody had ever seen anything like it 500 years ago. As time went on, better flipbooks were invented that reduced the motion intervals between each picture. It created a more authentic illusion of a moving image without any jump cuts or inconsistencies in the motions.

In 1868, a British lithograph printer named John Barnes Linnett created the first flipbook to use a linear sequence of images. He is credited as the inventor of the modern version of the flipbook. A patent was filed for the invention under the name “Kineograph” in the year 1868. After his death from pneumonia, his widow sold the patent to a businessman from the United States.

In 1894, a German inventor and filmmaker named Max Skladanowsky took the flipbook concept a step further by introducing it to film. Rather than use a series of pictures and drawings, he showcased photographic images in serial format. These were photographs he captured with his camera. The following year, he developed a film projector to display a series of photos to an audience.

In a sense, the flipbook was the inspiration for movies and film projection. Every time you go to the movie theatre to watch the latest film release, you’re basically watching a series of images running one after another. The flipbook concept is how cartoons and animated movies are made as well. The difference is that illustrated images are used in sequence rather than photographic images.

Modern Times

Modern paper flipbooks are created as novelty items for children. They might even find a small flipbook as a prize in a Cracker Jack box. As for adults, they like to collect vintage flipbooks from the 18th and 19th centuries because of their historical significance. There are even people competing to create the biggest flipbook in the world. The World Records for “most pages in a flipbook” title holder was Tushar Pillay in 2018.

Some companies use flipbooks as part of their promotional strategies. For example, Walt Disney Animation Studios has an introductory animated logo at the beginning of every film they made since 2007. It is not a physical flipbook, but the classic flipbook is represented in the logo.

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What is a Flipbook?

   

A flipbook is a special type of picture booklet, where each page contains a similar image that gradually changes on every subsequent page. The person is supposed to quickly flip through all the pages to blend the image on each page into the next page’s image. It creates the illusion of animated characters or objects in motion.

Flipbooks were one of the earliest forms of animated imagery and motion picture technology ever in the world. Before there were computers and television shows, people had to rely on flipbooks to see moving images in action. Each flipbook page contains a picture of a person or object in a slightly different position. Longer flipbooks have more drawn-out action sequences compared to shorter flipbooks.

It is almost the same concept of how cartoons are made. Illustrators design an image for each frame and then put all of the frames together in sequence. Once the frames are played in subsequent order, the illusion of animation is created. The only difference with physical flipbooks is you must use your fingers to flip through the pages. Animators and filmmakers use projection technology to make their illusions.

It takes a lot more work to convey a message or story in a flipbook. Drawing the imagery on each page is time consuming compared to writing the story in text format. However, the viewers will benefit more because they don’t need to devote as much time to reading anything. They can flip through the book within a few seconds to understand the basic message of the story.

How to Hold a Flipbook

Speed is the key to making the illusion work well. Some people are better at reading flipbooks than others. It requires you to hold the flipbook properly, with one hand underneath the book and the other hand flipping through the pages. On the flipping hand, your thumb and index fingers do all the work. You use these two fingers to lift all the pages and release them one at a time, but quickly.

Flipbooks don’t always read from the front to the back. Sometimes you have to start on the back page and flip through to the front page to get the entire animated image. It is easier to flip through the pages when the books are smaller because your fingers have a better grip on the pages. Bigger flipbooks with lots of pages will require you to use more than two fingers.

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