Out of college, you might have just got done with your post graduation or may be graduation? Looking for a Job; however the offered salaries do not match your expectations, right? Employer questions: What are the additional business certifications that you have besides your graduation and your post graduate degree? What else have you learnt besides your academic courses? What other business certifications would you like to update yourself with?
You need an answer to all the above questions or may be even more questions to get the right expected salary. For this you need to know about the market of the industry and where is it heading, what are latest and newest business certification courses that you need to acquire before you get into a job to get the salary you want.
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An existing professional in the market and you still have not been getting what you deserve. May be your salary is incorrect or your designation is not right. Of course with a designation growth follows a hike in your salary. What is the reason, as you are doing everything just correctly then what is it that you are lacking? May be you have all the knowledge and you are lacking the same in paper, which means you are lacking a certificate. Completing few business certification courses might simply help you grow. And if you do not have the knowledge you will be educated with the help of courses in the required domain.
Let us focus in a couple industries to know what are the best business certification courses that are also latest in the market which will give your resume a huge market value?
Let us start with everyone’s favorite;
Business Certification in Information Technology Industry
Now this industry is not a very old one in the market and neither is it very new; however technology alone has affected all the other industries in the market. Which industry is not using technology to work the smart way and grow with time. Every industry, every company uses technology for various reasons. This industry has grown with time and has a number of professionals working for them. These professionals include experienced professionals, professionals with IT academic background and many are professionals with business certification courses also coming from a different academic background.
We can peek into some of the latest professional business certifications that can help your resume score a good salary.
CISSP ( Certified Information Systems Security Professionals)
Information systems security is one of the most leading domains in IT these days. You will see a considerable and visible growth in your resume and your profession after the completion of this certification if you are a professional who creates policies and procedures for information security. Completion of this course will direct you to the designation of an information security manager.
IT Infrastructure Library which is also ITIL foundation Certification
This certification gives you the intellectual knowledge and skills required for qualifying as a manager in any IT Services Company. This certification includes of three stages these stages are the foundation lever, the practitioner level and the manager level. The first two levels of certification does not have any specific requirements however to apply for the third level you need to have cleared the foundation level along with having an experience of 5 years in IT management.
Certification of International Software Testing from the (ISTQB)
ISTQB that is the International Software Testing Qualifications Board is a software testing qualification certification organization. They are responsible for all schemes for qualifying as an ISTQB certified tester. This business certification is available in more than 70 countries and a number of institutes conduct training programs under the recommended course and syllabus. This course is universally and internationally accepted used and recommended for testers to grow as IT professionals. On completion of this course you can get a job as a quality assurance engineer, software testing engineer and also a senior software testing engineer.
CCNA certification (Cisco Certified Network Associations)
This business certification gives you the ability or rather validates your abilities to configure, install, troubleshoot and operate routes of medium size, networks switched verification and implementation of network connection at remote locations. This course includes dealing with security threats, introduction to the terminology of wireless networking, performance based on their skills. This certification has a vast curriculum including the new syllabus and a number of introductions.
PMP (Project Management professionals) certification
The credential of this certification includes recognition for the project managers; this recognition and certificate can be used and demonstrated globally which means it has recognition both within the country and also abroad. Business Certification gives you the ability of showing off your ability of competency, knowledge and experience of handling and leading a project efficiently. This course increases your marketability and gives you a considerable salary growth.
Ethical Hackers Certification (EHC)
This course gives you the ability of developing an application in a specific discipline of ethical hacking of network securities from a neutral point of view of the vendor. It is used to build up the application information for security officers, security professionals working for highly sensitive domains and industries, auditors, administrators and professionals concerned about the safety of their network infrastructure. This enables the ethical hackers to look for loop holes and weakness in the target system and to use this tool as a malevolent hacker.
Moving on to a sensitive industry; this is an industry that deals with money, if you have decided to handle money for people you better be careful and know how to handle it with care and make sure you keep it safe.
Business Certification in Finance Industry
When you think about the captioned industry you first think about the banks, the stock market, the insurance and the mutual funds. There are a number of places you can invest your money or you can have people’s money invested in. However you need to know the right place to invest the money, the right place is decided basis the requirement of the investor or the customer of the industry.
To get to the bottom of this industry which includes mainly servicing their customers you need to specialize in some of their certifications; however regulatory bodies have made a few certifications mandatory. But of course these certifications add value to your resume if you are in the finance industry and of course help business, company and industry grow. Lets us look at a few certification courses related to this industry.
Mandatory courses like AMFI or NISM, Depository Operations, Insurance Agent Certification
You are a part of the finance industry or you are working in this industry, you have to know about the captioned mandatory courses. These mandatory certification examinations are valid for a set amount of period you need to refresh your knowledge and the changes in the industry by either reappearing for these exams or appearing for their refreshers course. These exams are called mandatory exams because the regulators have set a few guidelines as per which sales and service of a few financial products is not possible without having these certifications.
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Certificate Examination in Customer Service & Banking Codes and Standards
The banking industry is very prominently a service industry here you sell financial services for some charges. Now we have a regulator for this industry like any other one, however regulators here are a little to vigilant with the staff working for this industry, vigilance is with respect to protect customer interest and to minimize fraud and fraudulent transactions. Understanding banking codes and standards to serve your customers well is an added benefit and it give a good value to your career and the banks customers.
Certification Examination for Trade Finance
You want to master trade by financing trade for both international and domestic trade transactions. This business certification exam is apt for you. It gives your resume a super value as not everyone can master trade in this industry. Both banks and other financial institutions can assist domestic and international trade by providing finance to these transactions. If you are in this industry and you want to really grow you must have this certification done.
Certification for SME Finance For Bankers
This course helps in understanding and helping in financing Small and Medium size Enterprises that represent general business. Here the capital of various organizations is distributed, purchased, coasted and valued as per or in accordance to the market of that business. Very interesting course if you are a part of the SME finance team or you want to move into SME financing domain you must get yourself this certificate as it will increase your knowledge and give you a good growth.
Certificate Examination in Prevention of Cyber Crime and Fraud Management
The use of technology has increased the number of cyber crimes one of the most common one is fraudulent transactions in a bank account or any other financial accounts. The captioned certification gives and teaches you the art of analyzing these transactions and helping the organization prevent it. You can get a good job with a financial organization as a fraud analyst and in fraud prevention team. This will direct you to the head office of your organization which is very beneficial for your designation and salary hike.
The Merchant Banking Certification Exam
You want to understand the financial structure of India its various rules and regulations laid down by the regulator of the security market along with different regulations of merchant banking this certification is just the right one for you. This business certification gives you good knowledge of the industry as the finance industry is huge and very vast to know it better you have to study it better. If you know this industry better through this certification there is no stopping you from growing in this industry.
Equity Derivative Certification Exam
If you are dealing with the stock market or the mutual fund industry you have to understand the basic of stock dealing, if you do not have a knowledge of the industry how will you educate your customers, your co-workers or your subordinates about the same. This certification gives you an understanding of the Indian equity market, understanding trading strategies features and options used, clearing of stock, settling of stock, risk management, operational mechanism of the equity market, etc. It gives you a brief of the overall stock market in short making sure all domains are covered.
To be precise this article covers two industries and the best business certification courses they have had in the year 2015. It is definitely not possible to cover all the industries and all the certification courses they include. However the aim was to focus on two most common and popular industries in the market and its best courses. To understand these courses better you can access the site of the institutions. Their websites will include the course durations, the course fee, its syllabus all that it covers, best advantages of the course, etc.
In case you do not want to go in for a business certification course and want to study further to achieve a full time, part time or a distance learning degree or diploma these certification examinations will not help as it will not satisfy your requirement. Business Certification courses have a set time or are valid for a limited period. These examinations and their courses need to be reappeared or refreshed depending on the requirement of the industry or the regulator. Refreshing these certifications makes you aware of the latest development in the domain including the changes in product and also its policies.
Knowledge is huge and learning is a never ending process you learn till you live. Learning for you might be both productive and non productive; however knowledge never goes down the drain. Whatever you learnt, read or discussed might be useful for you in some stage of your life; you never know, as you cannot predict future or what’s coming your way next. For now choose the right option and accelerate your career. All the Best!!!
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