As a professional, when you decide to make the career you want you will find what needs to be done to make it. One of the aspects to make the career is to add more and more skills required for it but the question is, is it enough? The answer is yes and no as well.
What it means is you can demonstrate all your skills only when you take up the new role but how do you demonstrate your skills and credibility so that you get the new role you want? In addition to your experience, globally accredited certifications can help you establish your credibility in a specific domain or area.
Now the big question is how do you choose the right certification course and the certifying body?
Actually, in this digital era, it is not that difficult to find the right one. The following steps are to help you structure your search to find the right certification course.
STEP 1: List down all the certifications available for you to get to the specific role you want
STEP 2: List down the certification bodies who conduct these certification exams
STEP 3: Do the following research
What is the market value of the certifications you have listed?
One of the parameters to check this is – find out the salary range you can expect from the role you want in your country by doing a particular certification. You can find some insight from sites like
Indeed (https://www.indeed.com/salaries?from=headercmplink&attributionid=HOMEPAGE)
PayScale (https://www.payscale.com/research/CH/Country=Switzerland/Salary)
STEP 4: Now that you figured out which certification has more value find which certification body is better. You can get some insight by doing the following research.
- Go to the respective certification body’s website and try to find out how many people get certified in a month or year. It would be much better if you can find out how many get certified in your country. If the numbers are higher, then it is proportional to its popularity.
- Check what is the process for the certification
- Check what are the prerequisites for the certification
- In addition, you can check social pages or websites like Quora, etc. to gather more info on the credibility of the certification and the certification body.
How the above steps help you structure your research and find the right certification course and once you find the right one, then you need to plan how to prepare and get certified? When it comes to preparing for the certification, you may want to find a better training provider for the same.
Thinking about how to find the right training provider? Watch out for our next article on the same.
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