Thursday, December 07, 2006

Certification is becoming a good idea in today's job market

A piece of paper won't prove your competence, but it will buy you entry into a corporate world that demands such things
12/7/2006 10:20:00 AM
by Peter de Jager

...after recently completing a small study on the importance of the Project Management Professional certification (PMP) offered through Project Management Institute (PMI). When asked if having a PMP was a distinct asset when they got hired, 37 per cent of the 133 respondents answered yes. When asked if their current employer saw the PMP as a strong asset, that number jumped to 74 per cent. That suggests that either their initial estimation of the importance of their PMP was short of the mark, or that in the intervening time since they've been hired, the importance of the PMP certification has increased dramatically in their organization. If a certification has become, rightly or wrongly, the passport that allows entry into the corporate world, then resumes without the necessary seals of approval are discarded faster than spam from an inbox.


http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=41402

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