subject: What is the Value of Having PMP Certification in Project Management Field? [print this page] What is the Value of Having PMP Certification in Project Management Field?
Why PMP certifications add so much importance to the professionals who hold it? The answer is the PMI (Project management Institute) issues this certification. Now most of the employer realizing that the strong impact of Project Management on projectwith certified professionals. Successful completion of project depends on the strategies and plan of the project managers. Most of the project managers find difficulties in planning of a project is complete they become flooded in subsequent execution phases. This happens due to the lake of routine schedule management, overall project coordination, project status tracking and integrated change control. That is why; certified and trained professionals are mostly hired by good companies.
PMP is not for Project Managers from a specific domain. A Project Manager working in any Industry, it can be Manufacturing or Retail or Defense or Information Technology can write the PMP Exam and upon successful completion can become a PMP.
Benefits of Having PMP Certification:
Professionalism: Employers know that they can expect a high-quality level of professionalism from those PMP certification holders.
Good marketability: Companies give PMP professional first preference. And also it makes a good impression on the Employer when they see you are a PMP certified.
Higher pay packages: professionals with PMP certification gets around 40% more salary them those who don't have the certification.
For PMP certification one should have 3 years of project management within 6 years of total experience means that 4500 hours of project management experience should have happened in last 3 years of total 6 years of experience.REP institutes provide 35 hours of Project Management training to get the PMP certification.
