Worth paying for a certificate?

A local college offers a course that costs $1200. I have read a lot of threads here and could not find my exact situation. I can study evenings. Did a certificate help you get hired?

A hands-on course with a project helped more than a purely online one.

Thanks for writing this out. I went through something close to it 14 months ago, and it settled down once I kept a simple log of every call and form.