If you want to be hired without experience forget certifications. Spend your time actually learning the material and produce some really good work on your own time. When it comes to an interview, talk about the raytracer, or the mp3 management software, that you wrote.
No one has posted to this discussion for at least three months. Please let old threads die and do not reply to them unless you feel you have something new and valuable to contribute that absolutely must be added to make the discussion complete. Otherwise, please start a new thread in this forum instead.