Four Good Reasons to Get Certified

Which kind of career manager are you? Do you make deliberate career moves designed to achieve your goals? Or do you “go with the flow,” moving from one fun challenge to the next?

Whatever your approach, you know the importance of credibility to advancing faster in your product management career. It's the number one advantage of becoming a certified product manager. On the road to career success, your certification proves you're not just along for the ride. It's just one of four great reasons to get certified. Here they arehttp://media.emm.adhost.com/adhost_5377.

1. Greater Credibility
An independent validation of your product management skills gives you greater credibility and more confidence on the job.

2. Improved Competitiveness
Product management certification strengthens your resume, and helps put you in the lead for the job you want in the company of your dreams. Employers tell us that a certification saves them time by differentiating candidates with a high level of professional product management knowledge.

3. Comprehensive Knowledge
The best certification programs, such as the AIPMM’s Certified Product Manager (CPM) and Certified Product Marketing Manager (CPMM), validate your knowledge of multiple methodologies. Having the credential means your knowledge is portable, because you understand diverse processes, strategies, and product life cycle models.

4. Demonstrated Capabilities
A truly credible certification program verifies both your theoretical product management knowledge and your experience in applying that knowledge on the job. AIPMM developed the CPM and CPMM exams to objectively and rigorously demonstrate that you have applied your professional skills.

Getting Certified
The AIPMM exam is a four-hour, in-person, written exam. It's conducted only by the AIPMM and Authorized Testing Partners including Pivotal Product Management.

For the answers to many more questions about AIPMM’s Certification , watch this 30-minute recorded webinar.

Pivotal Product Management's next scheduled AIPMM Certification Review and Exam is September 26, 2008. Register here.

To help assess your readiness and prepare for the exam, use Pivotal Product Management’s AIPMM Certification Glossary and Self-study Guide. Get these items now, free, by completing the Hot Button survey.