Most Valuable SAS Certification for Employment? And value of Basic Certification vs. Advanced?

Question

I recently exited graduate school and wonder, what is the best SAS certification to maximize the likelihood of employment? While I am most interested in predictive modeling, I am primarily seeking experience, so any job using SAS would be valuable. I am favoring the advanced certification since I have plenty of experience with SAS, but perhaps there is greater value associated with the basic certification, whether earned by itself or merely first.

For your convenience, here are the possible certifications:

1) SAS Base Programmer

2) SAS Advanced Programmer

3) SAS Warehouse Development

4) SAS Warehouse Architect

5) Predictive Modeling using SAS Enterprise Miner

Answer 1

modeling-it is what you are most interested in and probably in higher demand as a more specialized discipline.

companies are inundated with data that they need to analyze for both strategic and tactical decision making. Modeling and analytical skills are highly valued