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Subject: Re: Will a bartending certification be good anywhere I go?
From: DrinkBoy
Posted: Mon Aug 5. 2002, 22:19 UTC
Followup to: "Will a bartending certification be good anywhere I go?"  by Bartender master wannabee  (Mon Aug 5. 2002, 16:49 UTC)
> I was wondering if I could get a certification from an online course 
> or in my area and have it be good and marketable anywhere I go in the 
> country?...
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Not to raise the oft-repeated thread of "are bartending schools worth it?" 
but...

I expect that a bartending "certificate" is about as good as the paper it is 
printed on. Not that it is "worthless", but that there is no real recognized 
"certification" (besides the various state-run tests, which aren't interested 
at all in your bartending knowledge, just your food-service hygene 
knowledge)... so if the joint you are interviewing with can look at your 
certification and get a warm feeling that their prospective hire has gone 
"somewhere" and shown "somebody" that they know the basics of bartending... 
then great.

You should think of taking a bartending school as more self-education, then 
achieving some sort of certified rating that will actually mean something to 
somebody else.

-Robert
 www.DrinkBoy.com


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