Experience VS Certification! Who Will Survive The Competition?

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Experience VS Certification! Who Will Survive The
Competition?
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Introduction

• Hello Everyone,
• First, I would like to thank Certification
  Planner to help me write this article which I was
  planning from 3 years. My name is David Wash and
  I work with one of the leading travel company in
  the world as Senior Program Manager.
• After working in the Project Management domain
  for about 22 years, one day my CEO asked me to
  get PMP certified. With 1000's of projects under
  my belt, this came as a surprise to me "why I
  should get certified when I already have the
  knowledge, proven techniques, and experience to
  demonstrate my skills.

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1. Redundant knowledge transfer

• A major reason why I believed that certification
  courses would be ineffective, especially in cases
  like mine, was that I already had the knowledge
  that I was supposed to gain by the training.

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2. Extra investment in finance and time

• Most of the high-end certification courses do not
  come cheap.
• It is justified to spend money on learning
  something new, but, spending big bucks on
  something that I was already an expert at just
  didnt sound right.

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3. Lack of real-time application

• Another reason why I was against the
  certification was lack of application exposure.
• Yes, the training providers include multiple
  case studies, but the scope of problems mentioned
  in these case studies might be very different
  from my problems and thus the solution must be
  different as well.

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Daniel listed a couple of points as to how
certification can be helpful even in my case.

1. Show the willingness to learn
2. Becoming more marketable 
3. Updating our skill base

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