Which IT Certification blends well with a Training & Development resume?
Question by TechWriter: Which IT Certification blends well with a Training & Development resume?
I want to add an IT certification to my resume. But, I don’t want to slave over material that won’t help me in my work or in the job market.
I don’t want to get a meaningless certification (like the new online college degrees) or train in something that is obsolete. I have the MSOffice, PowerPoint, Project and Access training. I am starting SixSigma and PeopleSoft/SAP HR training, but want to set for myself apart as decidedly technical in order to get an edge. (I really am technical, and like conducting or writing training on tech topics).
Not sure which cert will capture an employer’s attention: CompTIA has a host of certs, MS/Cisco/Prediction have certs…then, there is Data Security and some others I see that I worry that I should be taking into account.
What is getting hotter and would need to be trained to many employees so I can learn it and get contract work training others?
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Answer by J D
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For your situation I would recommend a cert that shows you have a wide range of knowledge across IT, not one specific area like development of a certain technology.
When you’re hiring or responsibility training, you need to know generally what the topic is you’re discussing, but don;t need to really go the work, so you need a ‘jack of all trades’ certification so you can be qualified to speak to/train/hire QA’s, PM’s BA’s, Devs, etc.
Due to all this, the cert with the most breadth is the Software Management Professional (SMP)offered by the SMI. You can find out in this area it here:
http://www.thesmi.com
Otherwise, I would go with a PM cert which also demonstrates some wide knowledge, although not as much as SMP in my experience. Try the PMP at:
http://www.pmi.org