Certification Exam, Does It Help

by Cecille Ramirez on January 25th, 2010

Certification exam sets you apart from the rest. When you apply for a job, obviously you know you are qualified but someone else was picked over you. Adding a certification exam not just spice up your resume’ a bit but also justifies proficiency with the software.

What’s the basis? Let’s cite an example.

As a Project Manager, you have to know how to use Microsoft Project. The amount of knowledge is the question. How much do you know? I have heard it many times before the start of each class, 15 years experience, more than 20 years, entire career is on Project. After the class, reality check kicks in; only 20% of it is what the majority knew. Where’s the other 80%?

Certification exam wants to test the level of knowledge you have and the best practices to do a thing in a certain situation. Exam is not about definition of terms. If the situation is bringing all tasks in Project wherein it was initially entered in Excel by someone in the team then how do we go about doing it quickly without jeopardizing the best practices in doing so? Impossible, no such thing, copy and paste or the truth is you don’t know.

Exam question is like that. It is how to really do it following the best practices. Therefore, certification exam helps! 

Raves & Praise

Christopher Fowler

MCSA

Very thorough, good mix of lecture and lab work. Al is great! Keeps classes interesting and supplements required test material with need-to-know items from real world experience.

Jean S.

PMP Certification Training, Lombard, 2008

I was laid off for many months and not really getting many callbacks for my resume and no job offers. After I put the letters PMP on it, not only did I see an increase in quantity, but also quality of interviews. I had been spinning my wheels for 5 months, and after the PMP went on, I had 2 job offers in 6 weeks. It really was the "golden ticket"

Ron Cwik

PMP Certification Training, 2008

Great training facility. Great instructors. Great experience.

Karine Bucci

Project Management

Great class, loved the interaction and team-building exercises. Plenty of materials and learning tools supplied. Although it was a full week's class, never boring. Donna [Russell] was awesome and gave many supporting examples for better understanding.

David

A Cisco Success Story

I attended a resume writing seminar & conducted mock phone interviews with a Microtrain career counselor. These two activities gave me a leg up on distinguishing myself from all the other people looking for work. Since the career counselor's at Microtrain had a track record of getting people hired, their insight and positive past experiences helped me tremendously in getting hired with a Cisco Voice Systems Integrator in the Chicago area. I was hired as a Cisco Voice Tech Engineer with a starting salary of $65,000 / year with a Cisco voice systems reseller located in the Chicagoland area. Microtrain was very instramental in making this a reality. From expediting my WIA grant, to providing excellent hands-on training from knowledgable instructors I was able to achieve becoming certified with my CCNP. Microtrain's career services was the final catalyst in connecting me with this company by communicating with them on my behalf and with me in setting up the interview. One week later and I was hired. No joke. Thanks Microtrain!

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