When you are already a qualified professional,
why the need of an accredited certification is the intellectual stew brewing in
most the brimming minds. Some are even audacious to declare that no one gets to
tell them ‘what they already know’.
You have probably heard it, and I for sure can
testify about the lament of a senior manager in the construction industry who managed
some awe-inspiring monuments to his credit as the chief architect “can you
believe the boss pushing me to get the PMP certified?”, whilst I was a
bystander in that conversation then [2 years before]. Today, employed in the
education space, I marvel about that man’s predicament and feel miserable in
not empathizing with his plight. The opposite of love is not hate. Its apathy.
Sometimes, we veer off that direction showing total lack of concern or
conventional wisdom. If a civil engineer feels the pressing need for a
professional certification, try imagining the IT pros. In all fairness,
accreditation makes you suave, savvy and surges your career.
Surely and certainly, PMP® does equip you with the knowledge considered essential and
emboldens with a positive spirit to take the ‘corporate bull by its horn’.
Given a choice would you want to flaunt your certification or your crazy pay
check with incredible numbers? My take? Simple: a judicious mix of both. It’s
left to the discretion of the individual in the given circumstances to
highlight which but there have been compelling circumstances with dire straits
in trying to cloak the pay over post, as they pride more about their position as
the salary goes without saying. Market sentiments reek stronger of the smell
that emanates when one reads headline as like *Certified PMPs earn 25% more*.
It can be dismissed as subjective bereft of substance but the market seems to
buy that by gorging the plate dirt clean with no leftover. Such is the frenzy
with respondents react in this space that any such comparison is lapped up and
when numeric data are inserted to drive home the message, it has a ripple
effects and resonates all over the valley.
It makes you more than your worth as corporate
hand over paychecks that are getting heftier these days with plum position that
one wouldn’t have dreamt of, even vaguely. Yet, that’s the reality and the
beauty of certification.
Your thoughts please…..
Laxmi Kanticertglobal
